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Resources: toolkits
Assessing Voluntary Experiences (Institute for Volunteering Research)
Free downloadable toolkit to help volunteers reflect on their volunteering experience and their learning needs.
Guide to the development of education and training using National Occupational Standards (Skills for Justice)
A practical guide aimed at the justice sector but which can be adapted to apply to other sectors using the National Occupational Standrads that have been written for them. National Occupational Standards are guides that set out the competencies that people need to do their jobs well. We are responsible for writing the National Occupational Standards for Trustees, Campaigners, Fundraisers, Managers and leaders, Marangers of volunteers and Development workers.
National Occupational Standards for Trustees Toolkit (NCVO)
Downloadable resources to help trustees and management committee members consider their development needs, drawing on the relevant National Occupational Standards written by Skills - Third Sector.
Workforce Planning Toolkit, 2nd edition (Skills for Care)
A guide specifically aimed at social care employers. Includes a training need analysis guide and some tools and templates, including an induction matrix and an individual training plan template.
Successful Workforce Development Planning – A Guide (Skills Active)
Skills Active has guides for the sport and recreation sector, which are available on CD-ROM. It contains editable templates and forms to help with identify training needs. Free to Skills Active members.
Tools for tomorrow – A practical guide to strategic planning for voluntary organisations (NCVO)
Toolkit including case studies and worksheets covering a range of planning activities with relevance to staff development -including SWOT analysis, internal healthchecks, cost-benefit analysis, performance management and outcome assessment.