Skills Highway Workplace Literacy and Numeracy Forum Holiday Inn

Auckland Airport

19 September 2017

Welcome!

Overview of the Forum

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Skills Highway update

Nicky Murray Programme Manager Skills Highway

Skills Highway revisited

•  Established in 2008

•  ‘Brand’ for workplace literacy and numeracy

•  Research and evaluation

•  Website: –  General information –  Success stories –  News –  Resources –  Skills Highway Award

•  Funded by the Tertiary Education Commission and managed by the Industry Training Federation

Employer-led WPLN Fund

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‘Solvingyourbusinessproblemwithliteracyandnumeracyupskillingmustbeatthecentreofasuccessfulapplica8on’.

What does a high quality application contain?

•  A clear articulation of the employer’s productivity opportunities or problems that literacy and numeracy training can address

•  Understanding and measurement of employee practices that need to change to improve productivity

•  Assessment of literacy and numeracy levels pre- and post-training intervention

•  Understanding and reporting of personal outcomes for employees that then contribute to a higher performing workplace.

The three ‘i’s that underpin a robust workplace literacy and numeracy programme

•  What are the issues that can be related back to literacy and numeracy?

•  What are the interventions that will address these?

•  What are the indicators that will tell you what difference the interventions have made?

Literacy and numeracy gains are important - but only part of the story

•  The WLN Fund is about more than literacy and numeracy gains

•  We need to be able to convey the productivity gains and business outcomes that are delivered

•  …as well as the personal, whanau and community benefits that may result

•  This is important both for TEC reporting and for making the case for continued investment in training (WLN and other training) back to businesses.

Update from the TEC

Darel Hall Principal Advisor Skills Highway

Strategy and Priorities Team

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Employer roundtable

•  Introductions •  What’s made you give up a day to be

here? •  Burning issues? •  Key questions? •  How can we help?

Bev Cassidy-MacKenzie: Diversity Awards and the Skills Highway Award

Skills Highway Award entrant: KiwiRail Ltd

Skills Highway Award Winner: Waste Management Ltd

REAPs – supporting sustainable workplace literacy outcomes

Presenter: Tracey Shepherd, Director, REAPANZ

Skills Highway Award entrant: Countdown

Walking the Talk Award Winner: Fatu Patolo, Coca-Cola Amatil

Guest presenter

Damon Whitten, Centre Manager National Centre of Literacy and Numeracy for Adults

What’s new from Skills Highway and the TEC?

•  Anne Alkema, Skills Highway Research Manager –  Research update –  Digital literacy

•  Nicky Murray, Skills Highway Programme Manager –  Talking Matters!

•  Darel Hall, Principal Advisor Skills Highway, TEC –  Productivity and PELT

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Haere rā and safe travels from the

Skills Highway team J