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Poweful Questions are a core skill for identifying useful aspects that would enable groups or individuals to certanty over what to do to enhane a situation, move forward into an objective, etc. On this video Pablo Franzolini explains its main principles so you can start using Powerful Questions in minutes. 

 

 

 

 

Labour Market Information (LMI)  is not perhaps the most popular subject to talk about. But with the advent of open and linked data, LMI  is increasingly being open up to wider audiences and has considerable potential for helping people choose and plan future careers and plan education programmes, as well as for use in research, exploring future skills needs and for social and economic planning.

As a modest contribution to this event the EmployID project  has produced a video on Workplace Learning Analytics. The general idea is to use Learning Analytics to to support Public Employment Services (PES) staff to develop competences that address the need for integration and activation of job seekers in fast changing labour markets. Learning Analytics has potential to  supports the learning process of PES practitioners and managers in their professional identity development including through advanced coaching, reflection, networking and learning support services as well as MOOCs

EmployID members Carmen Wolf from KIT and Andreas Schmidt from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences had the opportunity of meeting key representatives of the Swedish Public Employment Service in Stockholm on June 2, 2015 for mutual exchange and learning on current developments. Mr. Jorge Manco, Strategist of Employment Services at the Swedish PES and Ms. Ana-Lena Larsson, Operation Coordinator International Affairs were kindly welcoming EmployID for a fruitful day of presentations and discussions. 

After presenting EmployID’s main objectives, the challenge of re-learning (or: “un-learning”) was discussed concerning forgetting about old identity elements and be supported by digital tools “to look at the world in a new way”. This is closely related to EmployID focal topic on supporting professional identity transformation as leaving behind old behaviours often requires a transformation process. 

We have published the 1st year´s deliverables of the project. Access them in here.

On Friday, 29^th of May 2015 the first multipliers workshop on peer coaching and e-coaching (online-coaching) was presented by Pablo Franzolini (ENZYME) and Carmen Wolf (KIT) to the participants of the Training Center at the ZRSZ (PES Slovenia) in Ljubljana. This was organized by EmployID members Urša Dolinar (ZRSZ), Barbara Gogala (ZSRZ), Sebastijan Primc (ZRSZ), and Gordana Kamnik (ZRSZ), Head of the Training Center. The workshop was a great opportunity for the EmployID project to gather feedback on the peer-coaching concept and to start the process of the peer-coaching concept integration into a PES organization.

After finding out, what participants expect from the workshop, there was a brief introduction into coaching- Next, the EmployID peer coaching core skills (emotional awareness, active listening, powerful questioning, powerful feedback (mirroring)) were explained and paired with exercises, practical examples, and experience reports. Peer coaching was defined and characteristics of this specific coaching setting were elucidated. The EmployID peer coaching concept was tried out on the spot in a small learning groups. A fruitful discussion on how to do coaching online and how to proceed with the cooperation followed the trail.

A one day European Symposium about Professional Identity Transformation in European PES
Organized by the EC Funded Project EmployID

As key agents in a volatile labour market, Public Employment Services (PES) across Europe constantly need to adapt, become more resilient and innovative in their work. EmployID, a major EU‐funded four‐year project (2014 – 2018), supports PES managers and practitioners to develop skill sets, knowledge and competences that address the need for integration and activation of job seekers in fast changing labour markets.

The aim of this one-day event is to present, demonstrate and discuss key findings from the initial phases of the EmployID Framework 7 funded EU project, specifically, innovative practices that are being piloted by the three contrasting PES partner organisations:

• Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) UK
• Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje (ZRSZ) , Slovenia; and
• Croatian Public Employment Service (CES).

The Symposium will bring together stakeholders from a range of key PES and allied organisations interested in social and technological innovation, as well as the enhancement of Public Employment and Allied Services through ideas and action.

The EmployID team members Barbara Gogala (ZRSZ) and Carmen Wolf (KIT) participated at the ANSE Research Conference on Supervision and Coaching on 24th and 25th April 2015 at Károli Gáspár University in Budapest, Hungary. The motto was “Inspire and be inspired!” and there was much space for experience and knowledge exchange as well as fruitful discussion in between the seminars. Carmen Wolf (KIT) presented the problematic of changing emotional states in mobile Self-Coaching and Peer Coaching in a seminar (“Pattern states in coaching and changing them in self-e-coaching”). Barbara Gogala (ZRSZ) who is also a former ANSE board member moderated the session with seminars on “Experiences in the world of labour”.

The first day started with an opening lecture on democracy by Prof. Dr. Anton Pelinka (Central European University Budapest, Hungary) who stated that freedom is a precondition for research and academic teaching. In a key note by Dr. Zsuzsanna Mirnics (Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem, Hungary) the issue on methodical and practical research of supervision was raised which is like in coaching mainly consisting on in-case studies. The strong need of evidence based studies was highlighted. Prof. Dr. Brigitte Schigl (Danube-University Krems, Austria) presented results from her and her students works on supervision and stated that there can be unwanted side effects and risks by supervision. This is also a very important issue for coaching: Katrin Oellerichs (University of Kassel) made that quite clear, when she presented the “dark side of coaching”. A lot of impact have expectations or the mental image of coaching how results of coaching are accepted or seen as negative effect.  A big issue that makes research in coaching more difficult was mentioned by Prof. Dr. Heidi Möller (University of Kassel) on why coaches do (not) participate in coaching research. In an online-study she found out that one among other reasons why coaches do not participate in coaching research is the fear of being in a bad position afterwards.