Initiatives

Alberta Projects Implementation Network

About this Initiative

Year Started:

2015

Initiative stage:

Organizing for Impact

Location:

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Prairie & Northern Region (AB, SK, MB, YT, NT, NU)

Initiative Purpose and Goals:

We work with a group of contractors and their unions on a common agenda to assess and evaluate worker skills and comptencies. This includes obervered assessment and evaluation of both technical and essential skills on the job. It is aimed at improving safety, productivity, job satisfaction, improved training results, individual career progression plus embrace high-performance on-the-job teamwork.

This collective impact is also to make unionized workers and signatory contractors more competitive in economic and enviromental terms. It aspires to enhance collaboration between the groups for mutual social benefit arround participatory planning of change management through process improvements and innovation adoptions.

We are working on designing shared measurement around assessming, evaluating, training, upgrading and tracking individual worker skills expansion. The members data will be held by the union as we co-create organizational cultures of continuous learning for the engaged progressive companies and the participating unions.

Initiative website:

https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/In%20Process%20but%20in%20the%20interim%20...

Collective Impact Elements in Place

Common Agenda

Shared Measurement

Backbone Support

Mutually Reinforcing Activities

Backbone Support

Organizations serving in the Backbone Role

GO Productivity through its Project Allignment and Delivery (PAAD) initiative serves as the backbone organization.

Backbone structure

GO Productivity is a separate organization that initiatived PAAD, recruited the member companies, unions, consultants, agencies and institutions. We have governance documents, confidentiality and non-disclosure provisions to enable an open, honest and action-oriented culture.

Measures of Success

Worker-based skills assessment and evaluation will be on measuring on-th-job observed competency in various technical criteria and Essential Skills capacities. These individual assessments are shared with the workers who can comment and/or concur.

The assessments can range form Not Satisfactory, Not Applicable (de;pendikng on the job at hand) Needs Training, Competent, Master and Master/Mentor levels. The Master/Mentor levels have the attitudes and appitudes to the do assessements and also have the interpersonal skills to monitor, mentor, coach and supervise.

Initiative Activities and Milestones

Activities

We have developed a cloud-based tracking tool for the competency assessments and evaluation.

We have standardized the full range of technical competencies profiles of Ironworkers and have over 700 worker assessments now with the Ironworke Local.

We are developing a framework for identifying training programs within the union, on the job coaching or third-parties credential provider like technical institutes plus Essential Skills training organizations, as the case may be.

Milestones

We have the Ironworker technical skilll profiles and evaluation standards set and agreed to between the participting contractors and the Ironworker Union. We have put the trackikng software "live" and the Union has uploaded assessment and evaluation profiles of over 700 of their members/workers.

We are doing an outside audit/assessment of the foreman competency and skills to do assessment and evaluations, with consistency, judgement and personal coaching capacity.

We have extended the introduction of the initial project to include another company but working with the same union. We are looking to see what are the challlenges in trnasfering, scaling, adapting and adopting a worker-based competency culture within the same industry throug another contractor.

We have just started to see is this initiative can be replicated and adapted for adoptoin in another industry, crane operators, and a differenct union, Operating Engineers.

We have contracted the Canada West Foundation, an independent think-tank with a research division on Human Capital to do a full third-party evaluation of entire project.

Community Engagement and Advancing Equity

Community Engagement Activities

We have Quaterly meetings of the Founders, regular on-going project planning adn performance meetings of all Associate Implementation project participants individuall and collaboratively for keep engagement and momentum.

We meet regularly with the Union locals Executives as well as on-site visits with workers, foremen and superintendents on feedback on the project.

We have an MOU with other key representative organizations in the area like the Construction Owners Association of Alberta, the Suppy Chain Mamagement Association, Alberta chapter and JWN Energy Group, a publication company to communicate project activities and progress.

Activities to Advance Equity

We are in early talks with a group that trains women for work in the trades. There is a recent pool of women who have completed Apprenticeship and are now licensed Journeypersons as Ironworkers. We have also reached out to the companies employting these womenand the project owners they are assigned to. Our goal is to take this group woment and other recent Apprenticeship graduates they are working with and introduce them to the competency assessment and evaluation process as part of a continuous learning mindset for thier careers.

Credentials and certifications are like water is to soup, necessary but insufficient. They are ante into the on-the-job skilled and competent worker and workforce. We hope to set a positive example of this new mmindwet with this newly credentialed set of Journeypeople.

Initiative Partners and Governance

Contributing organizations

PAAD has agroup of funders called Founders who act as advisors. There are Associates who pay-to-participate in self-funding implementation projects around the soprker-based skills and competency implementation projects.

Sectors Engaged

Nonprofit

Public Sector

Business Sector

Broader Community/People with Lived Experience

Initiative governance

We have all of the ablve.

Discussions

Search form

Initiatives

Location:

Get Connected:

Join the Collective Impact Forum