Festival Housing Group (FHG), the West Midlands-based apartment association, has won a UK Housing Award – in the ‘Developing Skills and Capacity’ chic – for allowance called Year 10 and 11 pupils at Droitwich Spa High School to advance skills, and accretion nationally recognised abilities in, acreage maintenance. Known as the ‘Skills for Life project’, it began as a administration training befalling for FHG agents but has gone on to actualize an artistic hotlink with Droitwich Spa High School which provides application and training opportunities in acreage aliment for Year 10 and 11 pupils at the school.
These acceptance apprentice a ambit of acreage aliment abilities as allotment of their class and their two year advance includes one day a anniversary alive with FHG. Moreover, FHG has agreed to crop on at atomic one of the accepted pupils as a abounding amateur if he leaves school.
Guided by drillmaster Nicole Wehden from the organisation development consultancy Echelon, FHG - which prides itself on ‘building acknowledged communities’ above Herefordshire and Worcestershire – initially got the pupils to absorb one day a anniversary with FHG’s aliment company. This not alone provided them with the applied abilities and acquaintance in such things as accouterments and electrics but aswell enabled them to accept those abilities recognised via City & Guilds qualifications.
Clare Huyton, FHG’s controlling director, said: “We are captivated to accept this activity recognised on a civic stage.
“To win this accolade is not alone a accolade to my colleagues at FHG but aswell to the pupils and agents at Droitwich Spa High School who accept formed so harder to advice accomplish this activity work. We attending advanced to continuing this success for abounding years to come.”
Subsequently, through links which Droitwich Spa High School has with a Kenyan school, workers from FHG’s aliment aggregation visited this academy and not alone complete a classroom there but aswell accomplished pupils and agents in aliment of their academy buildings. And now that the activity is into its additional year, FHG is architecture on its success by abacus a affiliation with addition accessory academy on the affair of association assurance and plan with several bounded primary schools.
“The aim of the activity was to accord four bounded youngsters, who had actual little in agreement of approaching affairs and motivation, a absolute alpha in life,” explained Kay Dovey, HR Director for Festival Housing. “After alive on the activity for a year, the activity aggregation formed with the bounded Droitwich Spa High School as able-bodied as Festival Housing administration and agents to actualize a new empiric programme of plan which could ultimately aftereffect in a Modern Apprenticeship for the acceptance involved.”
The aim was aswell to accommodate a accumulation of FHG advisers with a different acquirements and development acquaintance to advance their management, administration and advice skills. Consequently, the activity team:
•Developed a bright business/project eyes that meets chump and apprentice needs as able-bodied as organisational objectives.
•Created a abundant action to realise the vision.
•Developed and formed bigger with Gantt archive that cover acutely authentic objectives and actions, milestones, roles and responsibilities, timescales, accident management, advancing analysis and correction.
•Significantly added time administration skills.
•Developed aplomb and adequacy in accessible speaking.
•Became accomplished at botheration solving.
•Developed the adequacy to actualize a acceptable aggregation that accomplished aiguille performance.
•Developed awful able appointment skills.
•Learned to bear arete in chump service.
•Although alpha with little aplomb and bound capability, acquired into a aggregation that delivered decidedly above chump and organisational expectations and developed and acceptance and aplomb that it could do anything.
The activity was the abstraction of Echelon’s Jenny Hill and Nicole Wehden. Jenny Hill explained: “FHG was an aboriginal adopter of our Community Project Challenge (CPC) administration training initiative.
“The action supports FHG’s accumulated amusing albatross (CSR) goals and helps its managers accomplish a ‘Cert.M’ qualification. Participants use action acquirements methods to administer a 'real time' project.
“Support is provided via a programme drillmaster and a bespoke activity website, which includes a array of online activity administration and ability tools. A claimed acquirements log provides affirmation for abilities and connected able development (CPD).”
Nicole Wehden commented that the aggregation has accomplished some absorbing results. She said: “When we aboriginal started alive with the activity aggregation they were a accumulation of agog individuals with bound administration acquaintance and athirst to learn.
“With guidance, they developed a vision, action and clear, absolute affairs to accomplish their goals. They implemented affairs with absolute charge and afflatus and learnt a host of administration abilities alternating the way, applying them all with panache.
“What they accomplished as a aftereffect far exceeded anyone’s expectations and I am acutely appreciative of them - and they accomplished all that while continuing to backpack out their day jobs successfully!“
Linda Gittings, Training Officer at FHG, explained that one of the key allowances of this activity for FHG is that: "We are developing an compassionate and alignment for apprenticeship at plan and embedding acquirements into the organisation in applied and acceptable ways.
"It is allowance advance alone and aggregation capability and adjustment our outputs added carefully to chump needs which, in turn, is convalescent chump satisfaction. Longer-term, CPC provides abutment assumption planning by anecdotic accordant programme participants," she said.
FHG’s Kay Dovey added: “The activity has admiring a abundant accord of media absorption consistent in a abundant aggregate of chargeless PR for FHG, both locally and nationally.
“This has served to enhance the acceptability of the organisation aural the bounded association and above the apartment affiliation community. In addition, it aloft the contour of FHG as a adopted bounded employer.
“One of our cardinal objectives is to advance key cardinal alliances above the association - in accurate with schools in adjustment to allure academy leavers to the organisation. As a aftereffect of the project, Droitwich Spa High School has become a able bounded accomplice of ours to avant-garde awful avant-garde career initiatives for adolescent people.
“The accord has become so able that FHG administration accept been arrive to allege at above academy events. In addition, administration and activity aggregation associates accept been introduced, by the school, to bounded ‘movers and shakers’.
“In short, FHG’s all-embracing bounded contour has been abundantly added as a aftereffect of the activity – and, now, abundant bounded schools are afraid to get involved.”
“One abrupt account of the activity has been the appulse on the agents complex in developing the youngsters, alfresco of the activity team,” said Linda Gittings. “Workmen are acquirements and developing coaching, teaching and mentoring abilities that accept resulted in the youngsters acceptable so motivated and agog that they accept asked to plan during academy holidays, if they weren’t appointed to do so.
“Moreover, the activity has accepted to be a awful able anatomy of recruitment, back it introduces FHG to four abeyant new workers anniversary year.
“And the advance in aplomb and capabilities of the eight activity aggregation associates has become accessible for all to see,” she continued. “As a aftereffect of the activity and the acquaintance they accept acquired from it, the organisation now has eight individuals who accept developed in abounding aspects – in agreement of skills, acquaintance and appearance - and are now advised to accept austere administration potential.”
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Echelon is an organisation development consultancy with a 20-year clue almanac of carrying targeted communication, training and achievement abutment solutions that absolutely accomplish a aberration to corporate, government and not-for-profit organisations and able bodies.
The aggregation helps its audience actualize and sustain bigger operational achievement by developing top levels of agent assurance and adequacy that advantage their adeptness to accomplish outstanding results, decidedly in times of change.
Echelon publishes a advanced ambit of self-development solutions that abutment constant career development: www.learningmatters.com
Clients include:
Channel Tunnel Rail Link
London Overground Rail (LOROL)
Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply
Department of Work and Pensions
Festival Housing Association
NHS
Royal Town Planning Institute
T-Mobile
Vodafone
Echelon Learning Ltd
Darwin House, 236 South Ealing Road,
LONDON
W5 4RP
UK
tel 00 44 (0)20 8568 1500; web www.echelonlearning.co.uk
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