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Building skills for tomorrow: learning & development and the next five years
In his closing keynote at the Learning Technologies 2011 Conference, Building skills for tomorrow: learning & development and the next five years, Professor Campbell will throw startling light on the importance of skills to both organisations and to the UK. He will draw on research demonstrating the impact of coherent, well thought-out skills building activities, and ask crucial questions about today's L&D functions. What bundles of people management practices, together, create high-performing enterprises? What are the effects of improved skills on individuals and on organisations? And what can we do to increase our effectiveness in L&D and demonstrate its impact?
"In the frantic rush of today's world it's all too easy to be caught up in the present - to get absorbed in tackling a particular training need, or get obsessed by the latest tool that is supposed to solve all our learning problems," said Campbell.
Professor Mike Campbell is responsible for advising government on the policies, strategies and targets required to reach the world class skills ambition and for assessing the UK's progress towards it, and it is his job to take the longer and bigger view. He looks at how well the UK is developing its skills for the future, and the role that we - the country's workplace L&D professionals - play in this and at the research showing where we are succeeding and where we are falling behind.
This call to arms will give L&D professionals the ammunition they need after the conference to make the case for learning in your organisation.
The Learning Technologies 2011 conference takes place on 26-27 January 2011 at London Olympia 2. Learning Technologies conference programme and bookings.
About Mike Campbell
Mike is Director of Research and Policy at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), responsible for advising Government on the actions required to be world class and for assessing the UK's progress towards it. He is co-author of Ambition 2020: World Class Skills and Jobs for the UK (2009 and 2010), UKCES's landmark report on the UK's progress towards world class skills and jobs and of Skills for Jobs (2010), the highly regarded Skills Audit for England.
Previously, he was Director of Development at the Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA).
Mike was also the Adviser to the Leitch Review of UK Skill Needs and a member of the European Commission's Expert Group on 'New Skills for New Jobs'.
An acclaimed public speaker, he has made more than 600 presentations at conferences and events, in the UK, most other European countries, North America, Australia, Asia and Africa.
About Learning Technologies 2011, 26 and 27 January 2011, Olympia 2, London
The Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference is Europe's leading showcase of the technology used for learning at work and provides a wealth of content from the leading exhibitors in the field and a free seminar programme running in five theatres in the exhibition hall. The conference, running alongside the exhibition has expert sessions on learning technology, strategy and the issues facing L&D from some of the leading learning thinkers and visionaries in the industry.
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About Learning and Skills 2011, 26 and 27 January 2011, Olympia 2, London
Learning and Skills 2011 is co-located with the Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference. The Learning and Skills exhibition showcases the entire spectrum of methods, products and services for workplace learning with a focus on people development, learning and performance, learning resources and HR systems and services and is built around a multi-streamed programme of free seminars in four theatres on the exhibition floor.
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The combination of Learning Technologies and Learning and Skills provides access to more than 200 exhibitors and over 120 free-of-charge seminars and is the must attend event for all learning and development professionals.
