Conference 2009 presentations archive
The presentation files from the keynote speeches and parallel sessions are available here. (Files are all in PDF format. If you can't view them, download Acrobat Reader.)
Keynotes
Day One
- Keynote 1: Difficult conversations made easy
- Sue Ingram (Life Success)
- Difficult conversations can be easy! Gain both confidence and positive results by learning the right frame of mind to adopt, what to prepare and the key language skills to use.
Day Two
- Welcome from NAEGA
- Ann Ruthven (NAEGA)
- (Presentation not currently available)
- Keynote 2: Adult Guidance in England - Strategic developments today and tomorrow
- Trevor Tucknutt (BIS)
- The vision for the adult advancement and careers service in England: how it is being developed and implications for the future.
- Keynote 3: Changing Adult Guidence UK and Eire - A round up of key developments
- Changing adult guidance in Wales, Ray Collier (Careers Wales)
- A Northern Ireland perspective, Becca Vaughan (EGSA)
- (Presentations from NCGE and Skills Development Scotland not currently available.)
- NAEGA AGM: Directors' Report
- (Presentation not currently available)
- Keynote 4: Work-related stress in adult guidance
- Helen McGill (HSE)
- What the HSE, your employer and you can do to prevent stress at work making people ill.
Day Three
- Keynote 5: The Guidance Professional of the Future
- Pat Pugh (Lifelong Learning UK)
- What skills will practitioners require? How are changing policy and work contexts affecting our professional practice? Are our qualifications fit for purpose? This presentation will explore workforce development issues and how LLUK can support the profession.
Parallel sessions
- 01. Understanding advanced prototypes: A view from the inside of Slough Working Better
- Louise Peck and Elizabeth Davies (CFE)
- CFE will outline progress and lessons learnt from supporting the development of the Slough Working Better advancement prototype. A discussion will be led on the emerging messages for the AACS.
- 02. Foundation Degree Forward
- Lesley Haughton (fdf)
- Foundation Degree Forward is creating a website and resources to support advisers in helping people to choose work-based pathways to their goals, including FDs. What do advisers and working adults need to know and how can they find out?
- 03. Futuretrack: Studying career development amongst current HE students
- Jane Artess (HECSU)
- Futuretrack is the five year tracking study of the 2006 cohort of entrants to HE and will interest practitioners and policymakers seeking evidence to support employability strategies in HE.
- 04. Adult guidance: A profession for the 21st Century
- Siobhan Neary (iCeGS)
- With the development of a workforce reform strategy for adult advice and guidance practitioners what will it mean to be a ‘professional’ within the new careers service?
- 05. Setting up as an independent
- Alison Chubb and Mo Osborne (Independent consultants)
- Want to work for yourself but haven’t plucked up the courage to take the plunge? Hear a ‘warts and all’ tale of how guidance practitioners set up their own businesses, focussing on what you always wanted to know but never dared ask.
- 06. Retirement and redundancy – Same or different?
- Alison Baker (In Person Ltd)
- The workshop will explore these two major career transitions and ask ‘Is retirement so different from redundancy and what role does IAG play in both?’
- 07. Working with unemployed professionals
- Liz George (Southampton Solent University)
- Graduate Jobs South – an example of a regional web-based service matching graduates with job requirements of SMEs and how it is being shaped in a changing world.
- (Presentation not currently available)
- 08. Tackling employability in a rural area
- Sandra Brydon and Pat Beaumont (Northumberland County Council)
- This workshop describes the evolution of the Northumberland Removing Barriers to Work Partnership’s multi-agency strategy and the challenges it faces in tackling employability needs in the mixed urban and rural county of Northumberland.
- 09. Information, advice and guidance to offenders – What works (OLASS project)
- Denise Halpern (ease)
- An examination of the partnership between ease, the probation service and the offender to identify key areas in what makes this service work. It will also share how the service operates and showcase success.
- 10. Coaching and mentoring: Challenging or reinforcing the status quo?
- Janice MacInnes (Bristol Business School, UWE)
- Claims have been made about the impact of coaching and mentoring on organisational culture: they assist the process of change, create more people centered and supportive cultures. Our research explores the link and raises questions about these findings.
- 11. Making change sustainable through emotional intelligence
- Jo Maddox (JCA Occupational Psychologists Limited)
- Change is easy, its not changing back that is difficult. Emotional intelligence provides a mechanism for understanding the relationship between our attitudes, feelings and behaviour. This session will present seven recommendations for making change sustainable through attitude change.
- 12. Asperger Syndrome – Awareness and good practice
- Sarah Hendrickx (Hendrickx Associates)
- What is Asperger Syndrome and how can we best support those with this complex condition? These questions and more will be tackled in this informal, interactive and informative workshop.
- 13. What role adult guidance in Train to Gain?
- Michael Mitchell (LSC)
- An update on employer response provision. Exploring the value of adult guidance in the work place and how quality guidance can add value to the Train to Gain service.
- 14. Safeguarding – More than just safer recruitment
- Ann Ruthven (LSIS)
- The media often highlight the importance of safeguarding young people, but it is essential providers ensure the safety of all users. Effective safeguarding demands an on-going culture of vigilance. This workshop explores what providers should be doing.
- 15. Later life - Positive opportunities not unfortunate fate!
- (Session cancelled)
- 16. The role of employers in informing career choices
- Sue Fairest (Sue Fairest Consultancy)
- What is the role of employers in career choice? Should employers be attempting this, can they be impartial and can they be expected to do it well? This workshop will explore these questions with input from the SSC network.
- 17. Mindfulness based programmes
- Gary Heads (Truepotential)
- Innovative programmes using mindfulness integrated with coaching which are currently being delivered to the long-term unemployed, single parents, young homeless people, teachers/children and as additional training for mental health graduates.
- (Presentation not currently available)
- 18. Qualification reform
- Michael Gray (Michael Gray Associates Ltd)
- Your opportunity to learn the latest about the Qualification and Credit Framework, and to consider what it means for you and your organisation. We shall explore the challenges and what needs to be done to maximise the benefits.
- 19. Identifying turning points and critical incidents -
A narrative approach - (Session cancelled)
- 20. Openings Programme
- Jane Gregory (Open University)
- An exploration of how the OU Openings Programme can break down barriers to learning and provide greater confidence and aspirations in a rapidly changing world. It will outline examples of innovative community partnerships and offer a taste of Openings study.