How Scotland learns to work and what it means for the learning profession in Scotland Dr John McGurk Head of CIPD Scotland.

How Scotland learns to work and what it means for the learning

profession in ScotlandDr John McGurk

Head of CIPD Scotland

We were set up to deliver:

Scotland's Skilled Future and the socio-economics of learning

L2W campaiagn, Policy initiatives, Innovation board membership, megatrends, age diverse working

Socio economics of learning

Engagement activities, wellbeing, resilience toolkit, WTR review, new leadership on research, Trust, culture and risk

Our vision for Scotland

Four big skills “asks”

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•Getting vocational education right

•Sorting STEM and other key skills.

•Getting employers engaged, and active

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•Aligned skills supply and demand

•Incentives to innovate on skills and learning.

•Managing migration

•Technology and workplace

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•Value of engagement

•Breaking cycles of ill health and poor wellbeing

•Building support for transition and resilience

•Lifting employer ambition

•Workplace relations which support innovation and change

•Leadership which engages and sustains

Coherent workforce planning

Role of learning and development

Do more• L&D is one of the key accelerators

to Scotland's skilled future• Profession needs to get to the

heart of the conversation about Scotland’s skills and human capital

• CIPD’s new focus on science of HR means behavioural and increasingly natural sciences will inform us.

– Go beyond design and delivery– Curiosity champions– Curators– Connectors– Canaries

Re- think your role

Thanks for listening

Developing Scotland’s Young People (see slide 5 box 1)

What’s most important which IS being tackled

Whats’ most important and ISN’T being tackled

What else do you think should be addressed

What role should the L&D profession play

Building Skills for Scotland’s Future(see slide 5 box 1)

What needs to happen around innovation

What should HR/L&D’s role be in technology

Building Skills for Scotland’s Future(see slide 5 box 1)

What industries should we be focusing on to drive our future skills base.

If STEM skills are importnat what should we build them in the workplacedo t

Developing engagement, wellbeing and resilience

What more should we do on enagagement

Whats’ most important on wellbeing and ISN’T being tackled

What does workplace relillience mean and how should CIPD/learning chapion this.

What role should the L&D profession play

Developing skills to lead the futureHow can we best promote high road strategies given the preponderance of SME’s

Should we help promote enterprise and entrepreneurship?

What else do you think should be addressed

What role should the L&D profession play

What’s missing?