Building Capacity Through a Multi-Skilling Model - OSEA

Wo r k Pr o g r a m m e to Realize Benefits o f t h e Mu lt i-Skilling Mo d e l
The material presented above is a “concept paper”. It is designed to be a beginning point for the more in-depth
development of a strategy and action plan to realize the benefits of a Multi-Skilling Model and its application to
the electrical and renewable energy sector. The initiators of the concept paper, the CUSW and the OSEA, wish
to proceed with the development of the Model in collaboration with complementary partners from the electrical
and renewable energy sector. The attached graphic, Workforce Ecosystem, describes the contributor categories
of the key stakeholders groups. The success of this initiative will be largely driven by the full engagement of
representative from these stakeholder categories. The key steps and outputs are as follows:
A Leadership Group of representative
1. organizations have been formed. The
organizations have a significant impact on, and
interest in the design and implementation of this
capacity building initiative. They include the following:
the Aboriginal Human Resources Council, the
Canadian Standards Association, Centennial College
Energy Institute, Durham College, First Work: Ontario
Association of Youth Employment Centres, Grand
River Employment and Training, Murray’s Electrical &
Mechanical Contractors Corporation, The C3 Group,
and Toronto Workforce Innovation Group. The
leadership group acts as a Steering Committee for
this initiative and supports OSEA community power.
The Leadership Group’s focus has been on the
2. validation of the concept paper and participants
have set governance conditions for the initiative along
with the review of the work programme.
On the week of October 4th, the Leadership
3. Group, along with a large number of invited
participants, will contribute to an OSEA sponsored
Webinar that will have four objectives: 1) to solicit
input into the goals and objective of the initiative,
2) to build an awareness and understanding around
the labour challenges confronting the electrical and
renewable energy sector in the future 3) to enter
into a dialogue with a cross-section of the sector
to determine their perspective on the events and
conditions that will influence the sector from the
perspective of the goals of the initiative as well as
4) to develop a first approximation of a desirable
future, operational “picture” for the Multi-Skilling
Model
On October 19th and 20th 2010 40 - 50 sector
4. related individuals/organizations will be invited
to an evening session & a one day participatory event
called a SearchFx workshop. Invited participants will
be offered the opportunity to contribute to the success
of the Building Capacity through a Multi-Skilling
Model initiative. The outcome of this facilitated event
will be the preparation of an Implementation vision
and strategy for the Building Capacity through a
Multi-Skilling Model, the development of an action
plan(s), the setting up of working groups to follow
up on implementation as required, identification of
resourcing requirements and nominal responsibilities
as appropriate. Invited participants to this session will
be drawn from the stakeholder categories illustrated
on the attached Workforce Ecosystem diagram.
In November 2010, the Leadership Group
5. will provide a Call-to-Action in the form of a
white paper that will be presented at the 2nd Annual
Community Power Conference to be held in Toronto
November 15 – 17.
Co n ta c t In f o r m at io n
For more information on the OSEA’s Community Power
Planning Services Group contact:
Harry French, Director, Community Power Services
Group at harry@ontario-sea.org • t. 416.977.4441 or
Ryan Manchee, Membership Services at
ryan@ontario-sea.org • t. 416.977.4441
www.ontario-sea.org
Ania Kohinski, Canadian Union of Skilled Workers
– Green Energy Consultant at akohinski@cogeco.ca
• t. 905.357.3504
www.cusw.ca