Sometimes the best way to attract good people is to show them how easy it will be for them to leave you. The Royal Air Force in the UK is an employer of choice because they can demonstrate the employability of their “graduates”.
John Konrad is an international researcher in Vocational Education and Training [VET] and a policy advisor to British and European governments He is a national and European Expert on the Transparency and Recognition of Qualifications and Competencies.
INDUSTRY CONFERENCE UPDATE
Reframing Manitoba's Workforce: Uncovering Hidden Skills featuring Dr. Peter Senge
December 2, 2010 at the Winnipeg Convention Centre
So what do Peter Senge, RPL and Manitoba’s workplaces have in common? December 2nd, that question will be explored as part of the Reframing Manitoba’s Workforce: Uncovering Hidden Skills forum featuring Peter Senge.
You’ll remember Peter Senge from his highly influential 1990s book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. He describes a learning organization as a group of people who are continuously enhancing their capabilities to create what they want to create.
In The Fifth Discipline, Senge talks about an organization learning as its people continually expand their capacity to create results. In times of rapid change, it’s these learning organizations that are most flexible and adaptable and so have a high probability of success. For this to happen, he notes, organizations need to ‘discover how to tap people’s commitment and capacity to learn at all levels’.
Senge specifically talks about personal mastery -- and the idea that learning occurs in all places and is not restricted to formal learning. Similarly, RPL values all learning – whether gained in the classroom, family, community or workplace.... and supports ongoing promotion of lifelong and life-wide learning.
In Manitoba, these are the foundations of workplace RPL: translating the theory into processes that assess, organize and promote the workplace recognition of learning from all settings.
Join the discussion: turn your group into a learning organization.
