learningandskillsgroup2024-03-29T13:53:05Zhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/groups/notforprofit/forum/topics/feed/allLooking for a charity with Kirkpatrick experience to sharehttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/groups/notforprofit/forum/topics/looking-for-a-charity-with-kirkpatrick-experience-to-share2013-03-06T14:39:56.000Z2013-03-06T14:39:56.000ZSusie Finchhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/members/SusieFinch<div><p>I'm looking for a charity, housing association or not for profit with Kirkpatrick certification - or which has applied Kirkpatrick principles to its work - who'd be willing to share their experience on the annual, worldwide charity Evaluation webinar with the Kirkpatricks (provisional date August 29th). I'm not necessarily looking for a 'job done, complete success' story - charities are great at sharing their experiences of challenges faced along the way, and it's this which can prove particularly valuable. If you think you might fit this bill - or know someone that does - then please let me know.</p></div>Charity Learning Award Winners 2012https://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/groups/notforprofit/forum/topics/charity-learning-award-winners-20122012-11-20T15:57:10.000Z2012-11-20T15:57:10.000ZSusie Finchhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/members/SusieFinch<div><p>I thought that this would be of interest to the group:</p><p>A list of the Charity Learning Award winners 2012 is on Training Journal:</p><p><a href="http://www.trainingjournal.com/news/articles-news-clc-announce-winners-of-charity-awards/">http://www.trainingjournal.com/news/articles-news-clc-announce-winners-of-charity-awards/</a></p><p> </p><p>More information about the individual awards, and why they won, is on the Charity Learning website: <a href="http://www.charitylearning.org/news-events/news/inspirational-charities-win-top-elearning-awards/">http://www.charitylearning.org/news-events/news/inspirational-charities-win-top-elearning-awards/</a> </p><p> </p><p>With more about the RNLI's Award for Best Overall Programme on AskGrapevineHR <a href="http://www2.askgrapevine.com/news/hr/article/2012-11-16-rnli-recognised-for-online-learning-programme/">http://www2.askgrapevine.com/news/hr/article/2012-11-16-rnli-recognised-for-online-learning-programme/</a></p><p> </p><p>And for those interested in news coming out of the Charity Learning Conference last week see the LearnPatch website, created by well known L&D journalist Martin Couzins:</p><p><a href="http://learnpatch.com/">http://learnpatch.com/</a> or use the twitter hashtag #clcconf12 to catch up!</p><p> </p><p>Whilst you're on Twitter, you could also see the tweets from todays Skills Third Sector conference - use the hashtag #charityskillsconference</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>Great news for L&D in the third sectorhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/groups/notforprofit/forum/topics/great-news-for-l-d-in-the-third-sector2012-10-17T17:11:02.000Z2012-10-17T17:11:02.000ZSusie Finchhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/members/SusieFinch<div><p>I'm sure that you will have seen the announcement of Dame Mary Marsh being appointed to lead a review of Leadership & Skills in the third sector. This has been widely reported - which is fantastic for raising the profile of L&D in the sector!</p><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Here's the news on <a href="http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/1154509/Cabinet-Office-appoints-Dame-Mary-Marsh-oversee-review-sector-leadership-skills/">Third Sector magazine</a> & <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/public-leaders-network/2012/oct/12/mary-marsh-review-third-sector-skills?newsfeed=true">The Guardian</a> - but it was widely reported elsewhere.</p><p>I thought this <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/voluntary-sector-network/poll/2012/oct/12/charity-right-skills?INTCMP=SRCH">poll on The Guardian</a> was interesting, although the results were not entirely unexpected - 70% say there are serious holes in their charity's skill set.</p><p>For those interested, Dame Mary will be at the Skills - Third Sector conference on 20th November, alongside Nick Hurd MP, minister for Civil Society. See the <a href="http://www.skills-thirdsector.org.uk/news_media/conference/">Skills - Third Sector website</a> for more info. Early bird discount runs until 31st October at £149</p><p>There's a session at the conference on Stretching your training pound - more info on the <a href="http://www.charitylearning.org/news-events/news/stretching-your-training-pound/">Charity Learning website.</a></p><p>It''s great to see L&D in the Third Sector getting some well deserved attention!</p></div></div>Influence how a £40m+ fund for learning is spent!https://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/groups/notforprofit/forum/topics/influence-how-a-40m-fund-for-learning-is-spent2012-02-21T18:29:49.000Z2012-02-21T18:29:49.000ZSusie Finchhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/members/SusieFinch<div><p>The <a href="http://www.uficharitabletrust.org/">UCT</a> (the Ufi Charitable Trust) intends to use the proceeds of the sale of Ufi Limited - <strong>which exceeds £40m</strong> - to the mission of achieving <em>"a step change in adult learning and employability for all in the UK, through the adoption of 21st century technologies”.</em></p><p>If you'd like to influence the way that the UCT will use those funds to achieve its mission then it's worth spending just ten minutes filling out it's online survey. I think that this is well worth doing, and it would be great for the needs of Charities to be represented when decisions are made about dividing these funds:</p><p><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=nvKK%2BJjLiNxwXDeg8vQR0Z3aYQa1TRaIqNYDiVL5sRU%3DThe">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=nvKK%2bJjLiNxwXDeg8vQR0Z3aYQa1TRaIqNYDiVL5sRU%3d</a></p><p>The deadline for entries is 6th March.</p><p>The data gathered, along with that from interviews and from desk research, will form a report to be published prior to the Trust’s public launch in May 2012.</p><p> </p></div>Huge third sector collaborative video learning project underwayhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/groups/notforprofit/forum/topics/huge-third-sector-collaborative-video-learning-project-underway2012-01-18T17:28:54.000Z2012-01-18T17:28:54.000ZSusie Finchhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/members/SusieFinch<div><p> </p><p>Thought that members of this group would be interested to hear news of the massive video learning project underway in the charity sector, recently mentioned on People Management magazine:</p><p><a href="http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/articles/2012/01/charities-embrace-collaborative-video-learning-project.htm">http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/articles/2012/01/charities-embrace-collaborative-video-learning-project.htm</a></p><p>In a nutshell: Charity L&D teams are using donated flipcams to make videos - to be shared on a Youtube channel.</p></div>Evaluation Webinar with Jim Kirkpatrickhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/groups/notforprofit/forum/topics/evaluation-webinar-with-jim2011-07-07T18:54:16.000Z2011-07-07T18:54:16.000ZSusie Finchhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/members/SusieFinch<div><p> </p><p>I wanted to let the group know about a special webinar with Evaluation 'guru' Jim Kirkpatrick, which is free to all charities around the World.</p><p> </p><p>The Webinar is on 31st August at 3pm (BST).</p><p> </p><p>More details and how to register are in the link that follows - which will take you to a press release which I have just issued on behalf of The Charity Learning Consortium (CLC). The CLC is supporting this event as we asked Jim if he would run a complimentary webinar for charities, as we believe that his evaluation work could have great value for our members! NB. The webinar is entirely independent of the CLC and is being organised by the Kirkpatricks themselves. Any charities from around the World can join.</p><p> </p><p>Here's the press release:</p><p><a href="http://www.trainingpressreleases.com/newsstory.asp?NewsID=6500">http://www.trainingpressreleases.com/newsstory.asp?NewsID=6500</a></p><br /><p>Here's a direct link to register on the Webinar with the Kirkpatricks:</p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://110831webinar.eventbrite.com/">http://110831webinar.eventbrite.com/</a></p><p> </p><p>I hope that this is of interest!</p></div>Gathering evaluation data for a new eInductionhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/groups/notforprofit/forum/topics/gathering-evaluation-data-for2011-04-13T16:58:39.000Z2011-04-13T16:58:39.000ZJenni Culverwellhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/members/JenniCulverwell<div><p>We're just about to launch a new updated eInduction programme; it's short, but designed to be inspiring and welcoming. of course its interactive, providing some pretty high level information about our vision, strategy, new structure, etc. it should serve as a prompt for thinking and a more detailed discussion with a new line manager. </p><p>The question is... what sort of survey-type questions should we be asking to know whether we've hit the spot - apart from the usual "did this meet objectives?" (to be avoided). </p><p>I'd be really interested to know if anyone else has come up with questions which have given them really useful data. Thanks in advance</p></div>The Ultimate Guide to your Traininghttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/groups/notforprofit/forum/topics/the-ultimate-guide-to-your2010-08-19T14:46:28.000Z2010-08-19T14:46:28.000ZJenni Culverwellhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/members/JenniCulverwell<div><p>Big question! I work in a large charity (5k permanent staff+50k volunteers) who are geographically spread. </p><p> </p><p>We have a PDR process, MD programmes, an organisation strategy, a competency framework, and which all learning/training/development is linked to. We have a fairly robust technological platform, and have therefore exploited this to get a huge amount of elearning on to people's desks, as well as running f2f events, coaching, library etc - ie the blend. We have an intranet where there is loads of "information" on our offerings. However this is hardly ever the first place people go to find out or prefer to find out what they need. We've done the occasional roadshow and other planned communication to launch new stuff. But the biggest challenge is that people still need help because they don't know what they need or how to get it. </p><p> </p><p>I have been tasked with coming up with a kind of journey map/guide which would help someone (new or been here years) find their way through the training maze. Is it just a telephone number? is it a brochure (must not be out of date before it gets to your audience though!) or a simpler intranet page AND... it ought to be something that can be produced and provided "off line" because not all our staff by any means have access to or want to use a pc....?</p><p> </p><p>Anyone ever done anything similar, got a top tip or seen a good example of this in practice?</p></div>Top tips for blending our learning programmeshttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/groups/notforprofit/forum/topics/top-tips-for-blending-our2010-08-11T15:50:35.000Z2010-08-11T15:50:35.000ZJoanna Higginsonhttps://learningandskillsgroup.ning.com/members/JoannaHigginson<div><br />'You are what you share, not what you know'. A very wise person in the LSG community offered that little gem of a quote to me recently and it really made me think, so I thought I'd start this discussion.<br /><br />We're all being asked to do more for less and use learning technologies to offer more flexible and cost effective learning. So what top tips do you have to share? What blends have you tried that worked? ...and didn't work?! Why? What challenges have you faced and how did you overcome them? <br /><br />This discussion of for sharing what we know about blended our learning programmes, but if you want to share your experiences of something else with us (and I'm sure there are <span style="font-style:italic;">lots</span> of other things we could share) then feel free to start a new discussion.<br /><br /></div>