ADD2220 Skills & Employment Unit Team Development

The Skills & Employment Unit is a new Unit in the Development, Enterprise & Environment Directorate of the GLA. The Unit was only established in November 2017, and significant recruitment has taken place to establish 31 posts with a further 19 staff either being recruited currently or will be recruited prior to 2019. In addition, there is currently a consultation to merge the ESF Delivery team currently located within Regeneration with the Skills & Employment Unit.

The new Unit will bring together team members from across the GLA as well as a number of new colleagues recruited from outside the organisation to join the original core team. This ADD is to approve £21,550 for Greenbank to deliver a programme of team development activities over the next 12 months.

Greenbank will lead a programme of team development aimed at helping the team to achieve the following objectives:

• Building a new management team and ensuring good working practices are established quickly

• Ensuring the strategy and goals of the Unit and individual teams are understood and communicated effectively.

• Ensuring that the management team are accessible and approachable to rest of the team.

• Ensuring team successes are celebrated

• Building a new high performing team unit – understanding how individual management and working styles/strengths/personalities compliment and how to address any challenges whilst understanding this.

• Building trust between new team members

• Building and ramping up performance of the team with challenging deadlines while maintaining motivation in the short term i.e. until August 2019.

• Ensuring high performance is maintained in the long term. (The Implementation phase of the majority of the team’s activity will be until August 2019. From 2019 the programme will be business as usual).

Based on 4 ‘touch points’ with the SMT and 3 ‘touch points’ with the wider team, Greenbank will deliver a programme of work which will include both workshop sessions and activities between these workshops in order to sustain momentum and continue development throughout the 12 months.

Facilitation Budget

SMT 4 x half-day workshops

Wider Team 3 x half-day workshops (2 x facilitators)

Half-day design and development for each workshop

The programme has been designed to take account of equality and diversity of team members within the Skills & employment Unit whilst also recognising different learning styles, communication techniques and requirements of the team to maintain and promote an inclusive learning environment.

The estimated cost of £21,550 for this proposal will be funded from the Adult Education Budget for 2018-19 held within the Skill & Employment Unit.