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MSSSB is undertaking a number of projects associated with disseminating existing standards or developing new ones.
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Social Marketing

The first set of National Occupational Standards in social marketing have been finalised. Click here for further information.

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Recent Events

Sales and Telesales apprenticeship revision

As part of the Sales and Telesales apprenticeship project, MSSSB carried out a series of consultation events in England, Wales and Scotland. The events, were attended by stakeholders from the UK Nations and feedback was gained on a wide range of issues.

If you have any queries regarding the project in general, please contact Joanne Adami of MSSSB (joanneadami@cim.co.uk; 01628 427107), or Carol Adams, MSSSB associate, on 0787 620 2933.

Revision of the Sales and Marketing National Occupational Standards (NOS)

Consultation events were recently held in the 4 UK nations to involve stakeholders in the revision of the existing world-class national occupational standards in marketing and sales.

These standards are the nationally recognized benchmarks for best practice for marketing and sales practitioners. As such they are the basis for all nationally recognized qualifications in these areas. If you were unable to attend the events however would still like to be involved in the project, please contact Joanne Adami as soon as possible: joanneadami@cim.co.uk / 01628 427107.

Labour Market Information (LMI) Research Project

MSSSB has recently completed an important research exercise across the marketing and sales sector. The aim of the exercise was to seek to understand the key skills and training challenges in our sector and to design solutions to them. The aim of the project is to ensure that the marketing and sales workforce is better trained and more productive in the future, for the benefit of the sector and those that work in it.. To access the published reports, please select the appropriate links below:

- LMI Marketing report

- LMI Sales report

Launch of the national standards for Marketing and Sales

The launch organised by MSSSB which was held on Tuesday 5th September in London turned out to be a great success. We are grateful for the participants who turned up in great numbers to support such an important event. We are also grateful to the excellent presentations by the following presenters:

Sir Digby Jones, former Director of CBI, offered an inspiring off-the-cuff presentation about the need to ensure that UK PLC is supported by a professional workforce that continuously refines its skills in all sectors and more particularly in marketing and sales.
Sir Paul Judge, Chair of the national Marketing Group, introduced the participants to the background work together with the methodology and outcomes of the standards project.
Beth Rogers, Chair for the national Sales Group, focused her attention on the sales project outcomes and introduced participants to the new CD ROM that MSSSB produced to disseminate the outcomes of the standards project.
Finally, Teri Walker, Programme Manager, Xerox, presented a very convincing demonstration about the value of the standards by showing how Xerox made use of the sales standards to increase the relevance and effectiveness of the skills of its workforce.

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