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Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas Addressing The National Skills Shortage Next Week / 14th March Starts 4:30pm 'UK companies face severe skill challenges and exciting opportunities to address them. Over the last decade the performance of the UK school system has declined in comparison with other industrialised countries. Standards of attainment in key skills have fallen. Ladders of advancement for able children from disadvantaged backgrounds have been removed. As welfare dependency has grown at home many UK companies have had to look abroad for the higher-level skills they need to compete in global markets. A change of direction is urgently required. New ways of harnessing human potential need to be adopted. Pioneering companies are using an alternative approach to deliver both commercial success and personal fulfilment. Making it easier for people to undertake complex tasks and enabling them to emulate the approaches of high performers can build confidence, increase skills and transform performance. The implications for a wide range of organisations are profound'. Further Information Provided Below... *************************************************** Organization Analysis Research Theme Group Seminar Series The University of Lincoln, 2007 *************************************************** Dear CRITICAL MANAGEMENT subscribers, I am pleased to announce that you are invited to the Organisational Analysis Research Theme Group Seminar Series 2007 at the University of Lincoln. The seminar series is intended to develop lively discussion from multidisciplinary perspectives based around the following theme. 'Current Policy and Practice within Organisational Development: Can we develop effective partnerships between business and academia?' The second seminar will held be on Wednesday 14th March where Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas from the University of Lincoln Business School will be presenting an academic response to 'Addressing The National Skills Shortage'. This seminar will address the following issues, 'UK companies face severe skill challenges and exciting opportunities to address them. Over the last decade the performance of the UK school system has declined in comparison with other industrialised countries. Standards of attainment in key skills have fallen. Ladders of advancement for able children from disadvantaged backgrounds have been removed. As welfare dependency has grown at home many UK companies have had to look abroad for the higher-level skills they need to compete in global markets. A change of direction is urgently required. New ways of harnessing human potential need to be adopted. Pioneering companies are using an alternative approach to deliver both commercial success and personal fulfilment. Making it easier for people to undertake complex tasks and enabling them to emulate the approaches of high performers can build confidence, increase skills and transform performance. The implications for a wide range of organisations are profound'. This second seminar in the series will be taking place between 4:30 - 6:00pm in the CO-OP Lecture theatre. Refreshments will be served prior to the seminar at 4:00pm in the Atrium and there will be opportunity for open-ended discussion following the seminar. Admission to the seminar is free, and we hope that you will be able to join us for lively discussion. Finally, for your information, below is a brief biographical summary of the speaker Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas taken from the following website where more information on him can be found, http://auth.lincoln.ac.uk/dml/staff/1768.asp 'A Cornishman, Colin was educated at the LSE, London Business School and the universities of Aston, Chicago, South Africa and Southern California. Following an early career in general management (Longman Group) and marketing and corporate affairs (Rank Xerox) he has held a variety of directorial appointments; professorial appointments in Europe, North and South America, India and China; public appointments at local, regional and national level; been a founder chairman of award winning companies; and been the chairman and/or president of professional, charitable and representative bodies. He is the author of 38 books and reports and leads the winning business and performance improvement and corporate transformation research and best practice programmes. Colin obtained first place prize in the final examinations of three professions' If you are interested in attending this seminar please confirm your interest for catering purposes by emailing [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Best wishes, Thomas Walker Editorial Assistant The University of Lincoln [log in to unmask]