Pragmatic partnerships between employers, non-profits and educators can make demand-driven work-based learning a lot faster and more effective.
Shane Sutherland is a Director of PebblePad, an engaging personal learning tool used in a wide variety of institutions and workplaces. PebblePad is the tool of choice for the initiative that he describes.
What’s waiting to be discovered in your workplace?
As the economic recovery continues, employers continue to be challenged by recruiting and retaining skills and talents. But do we know the skills, aptitudes and competencies already in our employ and how best to lever that existing resource?
Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know.
Now we all know that the more you know about your existing workforce, the more you can do.
But how could/would/should we do that?
It seems like a few weeks ago, but July marks seven months since Dr. Peter Senge was in Winnipeg to launch the 1-day forum Reframing Manitoba’s Workforce: Uncovering Hidden Skills.
“Get ‘Em to Show You.”
That’s the very simple premise upon which some organizations build their approach to Recognizing Prior Learning in the workplace.
Everybody needs the right people with the right skills.
So how can RPL be applied to help workplaces do the match?
For some employers, recognizing prior learning is part of their approach to managing people and skills.
It can be as simple as looking at a Mom returning to the workforce and seeing her extensive community involvement as relevant to leadership capabilities.
All real knowing is doing – all doing is knowing. And if that’s the case, what's the potential for recognizing prior learning in the workplace?
In a rare Manitoba engagement, world-renowned author/lecturer Dr. Peter Senge (author of Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization) delivered the morning’s keynote address at a one-day conference on Recognizing Prior Learning (RPL) held at the Winnipeg Convention Centre on Dec 2nd, 2010. Click here for a link to Society of Organizational Learning.
Welcome to the new RPL Manitoba website developed through Workplace Prior Learning and Assessment Manitoba.
Recognizing prior learning appears to be a pragmatic approach to hiring and promoting employees in the workplace – but how can an employer ensure that the recognition is based on authentic skills and learning that can be objectively assessed?
It’s not a quick fix.
INDUSTRY CONFERENCE UPDATE
Reframing Manitoba's Workforce: Uncovering Hidden Skills featuring Dr. Peter Senge
December 2, 2010 at the Winnipeg Convention Centre
