| 12/06/2012 |
We hope you have all enjoyed the celebrations surrounding the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, we certainly did. It’s amazing how many people and organisations have been involved in this historic event.
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| 12/06/2012 |
Working with our partners from the Project Academy Ltd, we have created a talent database for Transport for London (TfL) which went live in April 2012. The system is called Pyramid and was built to replace an ageing system which had been in place for about 5 years.
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| 12/06/2012 |
Continuing with our Olympic theme, we have now turned our attention to coaching. Not, in our case, Olympic athletes, but with a more practical emphasis on project management skills, particularly leadership and teambuilding.
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| 12/06/2012 |
There are now some cool operators in the water industry, thanks to work done by Paul Erricker, Lara Taylorson and Trevor Dawes with their clients at United Utilities.
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| 10/02/2012 |
Aspirin for Appraisals (or Paracetamol for Performance Reviews!) It’s amazing how many organisations suffer from headaches with their appraisals/reviews at this time of year.
Typical Symptoms
How many times do you hear “X tells me they’ve started their staff appraisals, but it’s been weeks now and I’ve seen nothing”, or “I asked for some training on my development plan but that was months ago and nothing has happened!” or even “how many people have we got who need Health and Safety training in the next 3 months?”
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| 10/02/2012 |
December saw the launch of a new appraisal process for Barhale Trant Utilities (BTU) a joint venture company working for Southern Water on emergency repair and maintenance operations.
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| 10/02/2012 |
The Project
Shaping the Future is a regional development programme that combines investment
opportunities with workforce development. It showcases and promotes the unique
concentration of skills and expertise that are already in place; it delivers focused training
and development to help people tune their knowledge and skills to the current and future
needs of employers. Its ultimate goal is to create sustainable economic diversity in
North West Wales by encouraging the development of new jobs and businesses
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| 10/02/2012 |
My Reach is Extended
February sees the launch of a new appraisal process for Reach the people charity, it is called “MyReach”.
Reach is an organisation based in the midlands, with around 750 staff. They are a ''people first'' force working in partnership with individuals and communities to maximize the positive impact they have on peoples’ lives, promoting independence and full participation in society. Reach are one of the leading social investment charities in the Midlands, dedicated to supporting vulnerable individuals and the communities in which we are based
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| 10/02/2012 |
Academy wins Major Contracts
For the last few months the Academy team has been working hard to implement a software system to support around 1700 project managers in a major public organisation. Just this week we have completed security and “AA” accessibility testing work and we will soon start the roll out of the system to staff.
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| 26/07/2011 |
It’s a hectic time for OPL this summer on the south coast, not because we are all paddling in the sea there, but because we now have a new client near Portsmouth, well known for its Spinnaker Tower (see picture)
Emergency Service
Barhale Trant Utilities (BTU) is a joint venture company working for Southern Water on emergency repair and maintenance operations. It’s a big task that keeps them hectically busy, so when their Operations Director, Sean Jordan, saw our software being demonstrated at the Academy day in March, he felt it was just what they needed.
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| 25/07/2011 |
Back in 1999 Trevor Dawes wrote the first competency and skills framework for the rail industry, a framework that was taken up and used by thousands of rail industry employees in infrastructure maintenance contractors (IMCs) Amey, Balfour Beatty and Jarvis.
Effective Writing
This time Trevor has been working very closely with his old friend Jeremy Cadman of Bid Management http://www.bidmanagement.co.uk/ Jeremy has developed a practical approach to developing concise and compelling proposals, based on over 20 years of experience and practise which has given his clients a measurably higher success rate. As part of his portfolio, Jeremy has also developed a highly successful “Effective Writing Skills” programme, which includes a structured methodology supported by practical coaching and guidance.
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| 24/07/2011 |
In March 2011 the Project Professional’s Academy was launched to a sell-out audience in London. Academy Director Paul Erricker explained to the assembled audience, who represented many influential companies in the sphere of project management, how he had helped the Association for Project Management (APM) to design and launch its new Registered Project Professional (RPP) accreditation.
Paul and Academy colleague Lara Taylorson were amongst the first to obtain the new RPP standard and have been busy training assessors for the APM during 2010 for the launch in spring 2011. After 18 months of work as project manager for the new standard, Paul is now released from his work with the APM, so it was time to begin to tell people what his plans for the Academy were all about.
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| 17/02/2011 |
During 2010 our Academy colleague Paul Erricker was busy project managing the Association for Project Management’s (APM) new Registered Project Practitioner standard (RPP).
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| 16/02/2011 |
Menter Mon have been expanding the career opportunities for people employed in the Welsh nuclear power industry and helping them to use their many and varied skills to redeploy to other industries as two nuclear power sites are closed down.
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| 15/02/2011 |
At the end of 2010 we completed the work on Atkins Technical Skills Framework (see last Newsletter), which was signed off just before Christmas.
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| 14/02/2011 |
The major buzzword in the world of software these days seems to be “Cloud Computing” which is now being sold as the solution to all sorts of problems from individual private storage to entire company record keeping.
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| 03/11/2010 |
We are pleased to say that we have been chosen to work with the Welsh Assembly Government on a redeployment programme, using the powerful profiling and matching tools available through the “PRiSM” software developed for them by OPL’s development team, originally as a development and resourcing tool for project management staff.
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| 02/11/2010 |
Atkins is a large engineering and design consultancy employing over 20,000 people both in the UK and overseas. We last worked with them 3 years ago to design a new behavioural competency framework around their key business values. Recently we were called in to design a technical skills framework for their Intelligent Transport Solutions (ITS) business, which is best known for its innovative use of signage and the motorway hard shoulder to improve traffic flows at peak hours on the M6, M42 and other motorways.
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| 01/11/2010 |
We are pleased to have been asked to conduct a project to review and improve the behavioural competency framework used by Exeter University in its Performance and Development Review (PDR) process for around 1500 support staff.
The project starts with a survey to obtain feedback from key stakeholders. Based on their views we will then run a workshop to review and revise the competency framework, based on a series of carefully considered options and supported from our extensive experience of developing and upgrading frameworks. The finished results will be played back to the stakeholder group at the end of November.
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| 01/07/2010 |
This summer we’ve decided to add some new features, including dials and progress bars, to make it a more interesting, user friendly feature.
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| 30/06/2010 |
Congratulations to Jeremy Galpin on becoming Group Talent and Skills Manager at Costain Group.
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| 26/02/2010 |
An article from Project Magazine
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| 26/11/2009 |
A further element will be added to our software offerings early next year.
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| 13/11/2009 |
Costain Group has nominated Online Profiling Ltd in the category of Supply Chain Partner of the Year.
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| 14/07/2009 |
Costain Group recently won 3
awards at the Construction News
Quality Awards ceremony held at a
prestigious London Hotel, including
being crowned Supreme Winner
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| 29/06/2009 |
A summary of the June seminar held in Birmingham.
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| 18/03/2009 |
Confirmed attendees of the seminar
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| 08/01/2009 |
We are delighted to announce that we have appointed Online Profiling Africa (pty) Limited as our sole agents for OPS sales on the African Continent
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| 19/11/2008 |
Multibuild, a Stockport-based company specialising in hotel and refurbishment work...
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| 05/11/2008 |
We’re pleased to announce that we are working in partnership to promote our services and software products to organisations in South Africa
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| 22/10/2008 |
The financial services industry in the UK has been hit hard by the global “Credit Crunch” with far fewer mortgages being transacted and a consequent downturn in sales of related products
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| 08/10/2008 |
Costain Group is a civil engineering and building company employing around 2500 people in a range of disciplines, serving industries as diverse as highways, rail, water, nuclear, oil and gas, retail, etc
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| 24/09/2008 |
Summer 2008 has been busy at OPL with the development of several new products. Following the standards set by Investors in People and EFQM we have created ways of embedding business plans within our OPS software so that it is easy to cascade objectives
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| 10/09/2008 |
Our web-based 360º software tool has been updated with a new interface. This gives it a new look with the menu embedded in the top bar, giving more space on screen for the questionnaire, evidence and comments
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