{"id":6129,"date":"2014-10-30T07:34:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T07:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2014-10-30T07:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T07:34:03","slug":"more-on-skills-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/10\/30\/more-on-skills-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Skills Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday about the problems of identifying 'sustainability skills'. \u00a0I\u00a0noted\u00a0that the world is full of people with so-called sustainability\u00a0skills such as\u00a0'critical thinking'\u00a0but that many such\u00a0skills are purpose and value-neutral. \u00a0It all depends on how they are used in the world.<\/p>\n<p>It was good to see, therefore, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iema.net\">IMEA<\/a> has done its own\u00a0critical thinking about all this and come up with a skill set that is reasonably\u00a0focused. \u00a0An IEMA survey of over 900 organisations indicates that only 13% of companies are fully confident that they have the skills to successfully compete in the sustainable economy. \u00a0Tim Balcon, CEO of IMEA noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In the new business world, environment and sustainability can no longer be a bolt on, it needs to be part of businesses\u2019 DNA. \u00a0IEMA is launching its campaign \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iema.net\/skills-sustainable-economy-preparing-perfect-storm\">Preparing for the Perfecting Storm \u2013 Skills for a Sustainable Economy<\/a>\u201d to shine a light on this issue and catalyse action to address the skills deficit. \u00a0Businesses need to urgently turn what is a growing and prevailing list of challenges into opportunities. The most effective way of grasping this opportunity is by ensuring that all businesses have access to a new set of skills \u2013 environment and sustainability \u2013 to ensure that UK plc and businesses globally can transition and survive in this new economy,\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Peefect Storm<\/em> provides some informative case studies. \u00a0IEMA\u2019s skills framework includes the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skills for leaders to be able to integrate sustainability into long-term decision making<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced skills and capability of environment and sustainability professionals so they can embed sustainability throughout the organisation and its value chain, e.g. foresight and horizon scanning, building the business case<\/li>\n<li>Increasing environment and sustainability knowledge and understanding of all other workers, so they can play their full role.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whilst this is a good start, they are only headings. \u00a0What is the detail, I wondered. \u00a0There are certainly 'skills' exemplified\u00a0in the case studies that are set out, but there isn't a list of them anywhere \u2013 as far as I could\u00a0see. \u00a0Maybe there isn't a list. \u00a0Maybe the idea of a list is nonsense. \u00a0Perhaps, we're seduced by lists into thinking them necessary? \u00a0Maybe it's all contextual, contingent and conditional \u2013 like life in many respects.<\/p>\n<p>To be continued \u00a0...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday about the problems of identifying 'sustainability skills'. \u00a0I\u00a0noted\u00a0that the world is full of people with so-called sustainability\u00a0skills such as\u00a0'critical thinking'\u00a0but that many such\u00a0skills are purpose and value-neutral. \u00a0It all depends on how they are used in the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}