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  • The Labour Market Story: Skills Use at Work

    Jul 2014 | UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES)

    The Labour Market Story is an overarching narrative paper that summarises employment and skills in the UK, and four thematic briefing papers. This paper assesses how skills are used in the workplace. It considers whether employer demand for skills is of sufficient quality and quantity to effectively utilise the skills available and move businesses up the value chain. It considers approaches to management and skills use at work, and suggests ways of raising employer demand for skills.

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    The Labour Market Story: Skills for the future

    Jul 2014 | UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES)

    The Labour Market Story is an overarching narrative paper that summarises employment and skills in the UK, and four thematic briefing papers. This paper draws on recent quantitative and qualitative research to provide an analysis of future employment trends and associated skills requirements. It considers potential drivers of skills demand in the future, including globalisation, economic trends, science and technology, environmental change, and changing societal values.

  • The Labour Market Story: Skills for the future

    Jul 2014 | UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES)

    The Labour Market Story is an overarching narrative paper that summarises employment and skills in the UK, and four thematic briefing papers. This paper draws on recent quantitative and qualitative research to provide an analysis of future employment trends and associated skills requirements. It considers potential drivers of skills demand in the future, including globalisation, economic trends, science and technology, environmental change, and changing societal values.

  • The Labour Market Story: An Overview

    Jul 2014 | UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES)

    The Labour Market Story provides an up to date assessment of the state of the UK labour market and how it is performing relative to our international competitors. It is intended to inform future skills investment and policy to deliver a more effective skills system and alignment of public and private investment in skills.

  • Barriers to successful outcomes from coaching

    Carter A, Blackman A, Hicks B | Jul 2014 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper is second in a series on coaching effectiveness. A total of 644 industry professionals who were current or former coachees responded to a questionnaire. In this paper we identify barriers faced by coachees during the period of their coaching and suggest a categorisation framework: difficulties with coach; organisational culture; personal issues; coaching relationship and coaching model/process.

  • Slides: Barriers to coaching outcomes

    Presentation to 4th European Mentoring and Coaching Research Conference, 26-27 June 2014

    Carter A, Blackman A | Jul 2014 | European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC)

    This presentation was presented at the 4th European Mentoring and Coaching Research Conference, 26-27 June 2014 in Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France. The research papers were published in the Book of Conference Proceedings from 4th EMCC Research Conference, Lindall P and Megginson D (eds), by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).

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    Seminar: Establishing a culture of openness

    IES event report

    Smith M | Jun 2014 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Maggie Smith gives an overview of this well-received session about openness, what it is, how it can be encouraged, and what the barriers can be.

  • Coaching for effectiveness

    Initial findings from an international survey

    Blackman A, Carter A, Hay R | Jun 2014 |  European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC)

    This study clarified factors that make coaching effective and should be included in the coaching process. Six hundred and forty four industry professionals who had been through or were currently going through the coaching process responded to a questionnaire. The findings focus on the main components involved in the coaching process: the coach, the coachee, the organisation, the coaching process and the relationship between coach and coachee.

  • Review of the National Student Survey - Appendix B: The Stakeholder Strand

    Griggs J, Green S, Drever E, Pollard E, Williams M | Jun 2014 | Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)

    The National Student Survey (NSS) has run since 2004. The UK higher education funding bodies, which own the survey, commissioned research to review the purposes of the NSS and how effectively it meets them, and to make recommendations for the survey’s future shape. This set of four reports comprises a summary report, literature review and the responses to surveys and discussions with students and stakeholders.

  • Youth Contract for 16-17 year olds: an evaluation

    Technical report: Tables from the surveys of local authorities

    Marvell R, Newton B | Jun 2014 | Department for Education (DFE)

    This report contains the tables from the two surveys of Local Authorities in England that were undertaken as part of the evaluation of the Youth Contract for 16-17 year olds not in education, employment or training. Key findings from the surveys are contained within the synthesis report.