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us on 01223 360240
Because of its commitment to best practice, the Financial Services Skills
Council has negotiated special rates for its members on abdi's open-booking
workshops in 2008. The discount for FSSC members is over 15% for two
day open-booking workshops and 12% for three-day (certification) open-booking
workshops.
Our annual Masterclass with Jack Phillips was hosted last month at the British Council and participants discussed and contributed to an excellent day focused on building corporate scorecards. This annual event has become an important fixture in the calendar and Jane and Jack have agreed that next year, in addition to the Masterclass on scorecards, there will be a second event dedicated to Forecasting ROI. Details of these two events will be posted on our website by early September. Hosted by UK based organisations that are familiar with the methodology and have commenced building their capability and embedding measurement into their HR practices, these one day events are an opportunity for those already using the methodology to advance their knowledge and share expertise? If you'd like to discuss hosting one of these events next June please do contact us.
From September onwards, we plan to carry a section in the newsletter capturing the 'Voice of Practitioners'. We are well on the way to building a strong community of users and for those of you already using the methodology. We thought it would be interesting to hear how others are faring in their implementation of the methodology in their organisations and impact case studies. . The aim is to bring the voices of those actually implementing the methodology into the newsletter. Each one will talk about the successes, challenges, things they've discovered, new experiences encountered, and lessons learned. We've already had the first 4 volunteers and we'd welcome more. These short pieces (250-300) words will feature each month and help in building the community of best practice here in the UK. If you'd like to contribute, please contact us.
Dates for the two-day introductory workshop
2008
17-18 November
2009
9-10 March
15-16 June
21-22 September
16-17 November
Dates for the three-day certification workshop
2008
19-21 November
2009
17-19 June
18-20 November
As more and more UK companies and organizations recognize the ROI Methodology
as the global standard for impact measurement we're growing.
To help us manage the strategic implications of that we've recruited
two new board members.
Patti
is president and CEO of the ROI Institute, Inc. She is also chair and
CEO of The Chelsea Group, Inc., an international consulting organization
supporting organizations and their efforts to build accountability into
their training, human resources, and performance improvement programs
with a primary focus on building accountability in public sector organizations.
She helps organizations implement the ROI methodology in countries around
the world-including South Africa, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, Australia,
Italy, Turkey, France, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Her background
was in the electrical utility industry. Since 1997, she has embraced
the ROI methodology by committing herself to ongoing research and practice,
implementing ROI in private and public sector organizations. She is
currently spending a good deal of her time on public sector accountability,
and on the application of the ROI methodology in community- and faith-based
initiatives, including Citizen Corps, AmeriCorps, and the Compassion
Capital Fund. She has authored and co-authored more than a dozen books
on ROI, and speaks and teaches worldwide
Chris
started work as an apprentice in West Thurrock Power Station and having
completed his indentures went on to continue his training and work in
Japan for the NEC Corporation, where he developed an open and consultative
management style. On his return to the UK in 1983 he started his own
IT maintenance company called FLS (later Uniter) of which he is currently
the non-executive Chair. In 1997 he joined the DTI 'Wings' Project mentoring
young entrepreneurs and at the same time became interested in training
and the effect it has on economic development. In 1998 he joined the
board of the Essex TEC, becoming the Chair in 2000. He joined the Essex
LSC at its inception and became Chair in 2003. He was appointed Chair
of the East of England Regional LSC in June 2008. He was also a member
of the Tomlinson Committee 14/19 implementation working group. In 2001
Chris was appointed to the Board of The East of England Development
Agency and the Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership where he was the
Skills Champion. He is currently a non-executive director of the Thurrock
Urban Development Corporation, Chair of the East of England LSC Regional
Council and Chair of a new £19 million visual arts facility in Colchester
called Firstsite. He also holds a number of non-executive directorships
in the private sector. Through his work with Uniter and many of the
NDBPs he has been heavily involved in many training initiatives including
Train to Gain and its pilot "Profit from Learning" and Modern Apprentices
where he has been the champion of demonstrating the value of Training
abdi now offers a service giving companies and organisations a comprehensive
report on how well their L&D and HR investments are aligned to their
business. It shows them how they can make informed decisions to improve
alignment and value. It highlights recommendations for improvements
to current practices and processes.
Jane Massy reports, "Many organisations find the hardest aspect to adopting
a measurement strategy for their human capital investments is getting
the upfront diagnosis and planning right. We have experienced over and
over again, that for many organisations this means some challenging
changes in practice and the role of the HR/L&D professional and the
in the planning requirements from senior and line management."
The service combines expertise building on the ROI Institute planning
processes, and also draws on work on performance improvement from Gary
Rummler, Dana and Jim Robinson, Dave Ulrich and John P Kotter.
The core diagnosis requires 3 days on site consulting/interviews, off
site analysis and reporting culminating in a 2.5 hour presentation.
It can be customised to very specific organisational requirements. For
more details and a quotation, please contact abdi
Jane Massy is holding three executive breakfast briefings at Institute of Directors (IOD) premises in London, Leeds and Edinburgh in November and December. abdi always encourages HR and L&D professionals to bring their senior board, function, operations and finance colleagues along with them when making decisions to adopt rigorous systematic measurement of performance and business impact and ROI. When board members and senior management sign up, the task of implementing the ROI methodology becomes significantly easier. If you would like to attend or to invite one or more of your senior colleagues to come along, please contact us to request an invitation.
Sara Powell, Head of Training & Professional Development, Fidelity FundsNetwork
will be presenting. Sara has been a champion of the need to plan for
and measure business impact and value since her days at the Financial
Services Skills Council (FSSC) where she set up with Jane Massy of abdi/the
ROI Institute a partnership with the Skills Council that remains an
extremely important facilitator of good practice in ROI measurement
to the sector. Sara will be discussing "Evaluating and Managing Expectations
of Learning & Development" and lessons learned from measuring business
impact and ROI. Jeremy Harrison, Director abdi, who will also be at
the World of Learning conference is encouraging conference delegates
to attend the session "Sara has not only championed the need for good
impact measurement but has led the way by deploying the methodology
widely in her professional practice; delegates will learn a great deal
from her experience which can be applied not just in the finance sector
but across all sectors".