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Improving efficiency and cost effectiveness
High quality approaches to learner recruitment and initial assessment are a pivotal consideration for all providers seeking further improving success rates. In many cases high quality solutions are thought to require high levels of expenditure and are not progressed due to budgetary constraints.
In order to meet future performance targets necessary to maintain contracts, from existing budgets providers will have to work increasingly, ‘smarter’. Many Providers have already made significant progress in improving the quality and efficiency of the key delivery processes; achieving further gains in process, will require significant innovation.
This workshop is designed to help identify ways in which direct learner recruitment and initial assessment activities, can be made more effective, resulting in higher levels of learner satisfaction, reduced early drop out, significantly improved ‘offer to take-up ratio’ and reduced administrative costs.
For Whom
This intensive 1 day workshop has been designed for managers who have front line responsibility for Apprenticeship Programmes, and in particular, direct learner recruitment and initial assessment activities.
Aims and Objectives
Help participants identify ways in which learner recruitment and initial assessment activities, can be made more efficient and cost effective, through innovation in process design and management.
As a result of attending this workshop participants will understand, or better understand how to:
- Develop better targeted promotional activities
- Improve the design and cost effective application of promotional activities and resources so they generate high quality applications
- Brand the organisation’s apprenticeship programmes so that they create a high value perception in the mind’s of potential applicant’s
- Improve the design and application of initial assessment activities, and particularly those concerned with assessing:
- learner attitude, motivation and commitment
- vocational skills and aptitudes
- personal and social skills.
The workshop will also focus on examples of acknowledged good practice in recruitment and initial assessment activities.
Learning will be facilitated through:
- Practical analysis and evaluation of methods, tools and techniques
- Tutor feedback to individuals
- Participants’ critical evaluation of their organisation’s approach to managing promotional and initial assessment activities
- Group and individual problem solving exercises
- Comparative analysis of their organisation’s practices, with the experience and arrangements used by other workshop participants’ organisations.
Related Learner Systems Workshops
- Apprentice Recruitment and Initial Assessment - Getting it Right
- Effective Tracking and Review of Learner Progress
- Learner Reviews for Practitioners - Making Reviews More Fun and More Effective
- Personal Tutorials - Making them more fun and more effective
Certificates of Professional Development.
Formal Certificates of Development will be issued, by post, to participants who complete this workshop. These certificates will detail the key learning aims and the face-to-face learning hours undertaken, enabling participants to update their CPD records and logs accordingly. The workshop also allows time, during the day, for participants to reflect on and record their personal learning development and consider how best to apply the knowledge gained on return to work. This element of the programme is designed to maximise the benefits from attending and enable participants to make better review judgments when recording their CPD activities.