Age Management Training strategic partnership for ..
Age Management Training strategic partnership for innovation in the postal sector
Start date: Sep 1, 2016,
End date: Aug 31, 2019
PROJECT
FINISHED
The regulatory changes which led to the liberalization of the EU Postal Market and increased competition in the provision of high-quality and diversified mail, parcel and financial services have led postal operators to focus on performance and efficiency. The objective is to manage change with people in place and to facilitate integration of young people in a soft way. The project overall objective is to manage intergenerational diversity in the postal sector by creating innovative training prototype valorizing intergenerational teams so that the companies are more efficient in a context of permanent changes within the postal sector. The project is expected to achieve the following objectives: - to develop employability of all employees (the senior but also the junior) of the companies - to valorize intergenerational team and make them more efficient to promote innovation in the companies - to facilitate and stimulate the innovation within the partner's company on the age management topicThe vocational education training is one important solution to all these objectives. It is one of the solution for workers of different age and gender bringing diverse perspectives and talents. Age diverse workforces are better able to respond to rapidly changing cicumstances as they maximise the exchanges. Key activities In concrete the project will be organised in 3 activities (IO): - Researches, identification and mapping training needs in the Postal sector related to Age Management - Elaborate an innovative training toolkit for age management co-elaborated with volunteer teams - Create a conceptual design of a training prototype to be implemented and test within some intergenerational teamsKey events (Events)A set of activities has been planned to increase multiplying effects of the project outcomes:- Project kick-off meeting with external stakeholders to provide input on the intergenerational diversity topic- Project closure event which will have a central role in the dissemination activities plan- Use of website, publication to promote the main output of the project Methodology - A steering committee will be put in place to manage the project - Analysis of the training needs (litterature research - questionnaires, interviews) - Co-elaboration process with volunteer teams - Focus Groups - Development of training curricula based on partners skills specialised in training (KEKELTA, INOSALUS, UNIVERSITY OF BORDEAUX)- Evaluation all along the project lifecycle - an evaluation committee will be put in place - Dissemination and communication strategy - a communication committee will be defined to communicate the projects results to various channels all over Europe. Training and enlarge best practices sharing has been identified as a key tool to manage changes within the partner organisations developing customer orientation, adapting to digital economy and services facilitating innovation within companies. The project also a greater opportunities for knowledge sharing between generations within Europe and a way to combining cultural and companies particularities under common framework to address the age management issue to increase social inclusion in a sector that represents 2 millions workers.
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