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Challenges

Motivating Employees in Challenging Times MDC experience Lorraine Powney Principal Learning & Development Adviser SfL Coordinator. Challenges. Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) Budget cuts and efficiency savings Retaining Investor in People Service Reviews Job Evaluation.

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Challenges

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  1. Motivating Employees in Challenging TimesMDC experienceLorraine PowneyPrincipal Learning & Development AdviserSfL Coordinator Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  2. Challenges • Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) • Budget cuts and efficiency savings • Retaining Investor in People • Service Reviews • Job Evaluation Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  3. How do we meet these challenges? • Keeping staff involved and informed • Raising potential Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  4. People Strategy • Valuing our People • Transforming our Organisation • Developing our People Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  5. Transforming the Organisation • Enhancing performance and enabling efficiency savings through business process improvement • Encouraging continuous improvement and innovation Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  6. Developing our People • Managing performance effectively • Setting clear expectations • Providing the right development activities • Supporting and encouraging achievement Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  7. 3 Case Studies ‘Test the Council’ followed by The Employee Experience Video Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  8. Benefits of addressing skills for life:- • meet health and safety requirements • achieve an Investors in People award • be seen as a learning organisation • Increase staff motivation • increase productivity • reduce errors/wastage • reduce absenteeism • improve customer relations. Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  9. Who did the Campaign involve? • SMT and Line Managers • Learning & Development Team • ULRs • SfL Champions • Providers • CfBT Learning & Skills Advisers • Marketing & Communications • All Employees/Members Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  10. Raising Awareness • Pilot • Managers Forum • Learning through Experience Event • Insider Bulletin • Wage Slips • Communication Boards • Team Meetings Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  11. Test the Council - In Action • ROWA bus • 5.30am start • Midnight finish • Laptops used in site huts, parks and council vehicles Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  12. The Campaign • Ran over 4 days • £250 Prize Draw to encourage participation • Engaged all remote sites • Used Move On Practice Tests • Engaged the Dyslexia Association Resulted in • 456 employees participating • 155 expressing an interest in improving their English or Maths Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  13. Where are we now? • Achieved the GO Award and signed the Skills Pledge in 2008 • Short listed for MJ Workforce Involvement Award in 2008 • Short listed for Get On Local Gvt ‘Whole Organisation Approach’ Award in 2009 • 54 Employees have achieved Literacy Level 2 • 25 Employees have achieved Literacy Level 1 • 24 Employees have achieved Numeracy Level 2 • 10 Employees have achieved Numeracy Level 1 • 10 Employees have received 1:1 Dyslexia tuition Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

  14. Thank you for listening Video Mansfield District Council Creating a District where People can Succeed

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