Skill Active Mangmant

Skills Active Management & Leadership Consultation

Does your SSC have, or do you plan to have, a committed and funded M&L skills development strategy?

Skills for Logistics (SfL), has a committed and funded M&L strategy. M&L has emerged as one of the sector’s priority issues. Our SSA research highlighted significant management skills gaps, especially at first line to middle management level. The SfL M&L strategy is designed to address these skills gaps through extensive consultation with employers. Our M&L strategy also recognises the pivotal role of logistics managers in addressing the sector’s other priority issues:

Image of the Logistics Sector

Diversity

Basic Skills

Recognition of the Business Case for Training

The Quality of Training Supply.

The sector has not had a single and credible career/qualifications framework. Skills for Logistics have developed The Professional Development Stairway which has been introduced to address this need. It now provides a consistent basis for skills development within the sector – one which has been widely welcomed by employers, especially as it expresses issues and solutions in their language.

Underpinning the Stairway is the Skills Mix, developed after detailed consultation across the sector. The Skills Mix for logistics comprises, across all levels of the Stairway, a combination of:

Craft Skills The technical knowledge needed to carry out a role

Core SkillsBehavioural competencies that determine how well the craft skills are applied in the role

Supply Chain

SkillsSpecific skills such as product handling needed to function effectively in specific supply chains.

M&L NOS have been mapped on to the Stairway for core skills, not only in the mix for the management zone of the Stairway but crucially, also in the non-management or operative zone where Key Skills and Institute of Customer Services NOS have been mapped in as well, to cover similar behavioural needs at those levels....