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Ignite XP
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Earners of this badge have completed an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge by identifying a simple goal or improvement they want to make. Earners have described a simple problem, suggested ideas to improve it, and chosen one idea with justification. Earners have used a clear structure (such as problem, idea, and benefit) to share their plan; responded politely to a question; used simple feedback to improve their work; and provided evidence and reflection on what went well and what to try next time.
Earning Criteria:
- Earner has used a growth mindset to support learning and improvement by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in growth mindset, growth mindedness, and learning from mistakes by showing a positive approach to learning. They have gained awareness of resilience, dedication, and learnt about independent learning and active learning.
- Earner has identified problems and generated improvement options by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in solutions focused working, problem sensitivity, and fluency of ideas by spotting a simple problem and suggesting an idea. They have gained awareness of flexibility, imagination, and learnt about ideation and innovative thinking.
- Earner has tested ideas and learnt from evidence by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in acting on ideas, proactivity, and learning from mistakes by trying out an idea and recording what happened. They have gained awareness of systems thinking, systems analysis, and learnt about systems evaluation and being solutions focused.
- Earner has communicated innovation and improvement ideas clearly by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in innovation, innovative thinking, and visualisation by sharing an idea in a clear way. They have gained awareness of visionary and future facing thinking and learnt about aiming high and nurturing their ambition.
- Earner has supported change in a safe and professional way by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in organisational change, driving change, and situational awareness by taking part in change safely. They have gained awareness of reliability, patience, and learnt about time keeping and being detail oriented.
- Earner has produced evidence of learning and progression by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in organisation, reflection, and trying again by collecting simple evidence and reflecting. They have gained awareness of interviews, personal strengths, transferable skills, and learnt about a curriculum vitae (CV).
Earners of this badge have completed an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge by setting a realistic improvement goal with steps and timescales. Earners have defined a problem using a simple structure, including who is affected, generated and compared options using simple criteria, and selected a suitable approach with justification. Earners have produced a short proposal for a chosen audience; used visuals or examples; improved it using feedback; explained what changed; and organised evidence into a portfolio with reflection and next steps.
Earning Criteria:
- Earner has used a growth mindset to support learning and improvement by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in growth mindedness by using feedback and reflection to improve performance. They have gained awareness of strategic thinking and learnt about aiming high.(
- Earner has identified problems and generated improvement options by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in systems thinking by using a structured approach to problem solving. They have gained awareness of solutions focused and learnt about systems analysis.
- Earner has communicated innovation and improvement ideas clearly by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in strategic planning by presenting an improvement proposal. They have gained awareness of project design and learnt about project development.
- Earner has produced evidence of learning and progression by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in organising evidence, using feedback, and reflection by organising evidence and summarising learning. They have gained awareness of their progress, next steps, transferable skills, and learnt about interviews, curriculum vitae (CV), and applications.
Earners of this badge have completed an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge by analysing root causes and patterns in feedback and performance over time. Earners have developed improvement options with risks, benefits, and constraints; produced a proposal with options, evidence, and a recommendation; and presented to stakeholders while managing questions professionally. Earners have evaluated the impact of actions and communication; proposed improvements; planned next-stage development linked to a role or route; and curated a role-aligned portfolio with reflection and next steps.
Earning Criteria:
- Earner has used a growth mindset to support learning and improvement by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in strategic thinking by evaluating learning and improvement over time. They have gained awareness of being future facing and learnt about channelling ambition.
- Earner has identified problems and generated improvement options by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in systems evaluation by analysing problems and justifying improvement proposals. They have gained awareness of systems analysis and learnt about systems thinking.
- Earner has communicated innovation and improvement ideas clearly by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in strategic planning by influencing decisions using evidence. They have gained awareness of visionary approaches and learnt about driving change.
- Earner has produced evidence of learning and progression by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in curriculum vitae (CV) writing, cover letter writing, job applications, and reflection by curating a progression-focussed portfolio. They have gained awareness of transferable skills, professionalism, and learnt about reflection, progress tracking, and interview skills.
Ascend XP
1XP!
2XP!
3XP!
Earners of this badge have completed an employer-led growth and innovation challenge by identifying what they learned, naming a simple problem and challenge, and using feedback to improve. They suggested improvement ideas, chose one with a reason, and communicated it clearly using a simple structure (problem, idea, benefit), responding politely to questions or comments. They provided evidence from at least two activities and reflected on what went well and what to try next time.
Earning Criteria:
- Earner has used a growth mindset to support learning and improvement by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in growth mindset, growth mindedness, and learning from mistakes by showing a positive approach to learning. They have gained awareness of resilience, dedication, and learnt independent learning and active learning.
- Earner has identified problems and generated improvement options by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in solutions focused working, problem sensitivity, and fluency of ideas by spotting a simple problem and suggesting an idea. They have gained awareness of flexibility, imagination, and learnt ideation and innovative thinking. (
- Earner has tested ideas and learned from evidence by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in acting on ideas, proactivity, and learning from mistakes by trying out an idea and recording what happened. They have gained awareness of systems thinking, systems analysis, and learnt about systems evaluation and being solutions focused.
- Earner has communicated innovation and improvement ideas clearly by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in innovation, innovative thinking, and visualisation by sharing an idea in a clear way. They have gained awareness of visionary and future facing thinking and learnt about aiming high and nurturing their ambition.
- Earner has supported change in a safe and professional way by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in organisational change, driving change, and situational awareness by taking part in change safely. They have gained awareness of reliability, patience, and learnt about time keeping and being detail oriented.
- Earner has produced evidence of learning and progression by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in organisation, reflection, and trying again by collecting simple evidence and reflecting. They have gained awareness of interviews, personal strengths, transferable skills, and learnt about a curriculum vitae (CV).
Earners of this badge have completed a growth and innovation challenge by explaining strengths and development needs, setting a realistic improvement goal with steps and timescales, defining a problem and affected people, generating and comparing options, selecting one with a rationale, producing a short proposal with key points and visuals, improving work using feedback, and building a simple portfolio with reflection and an updated progression plan.
Earning Criteria:
- Earner has used a growth mindset to support learning and improvement by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in having a growth mindset and learning from mistakes by using feedback and reflection to improve performance. They have gained awareness of building resilience, dedication, and learnt about independent learning and active learning.
- Earner has identified problems and generated improvement options by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in systems thinking, systems analysis, and being solutions focused by using a structured approach to problem solving. They have gained awareness of problem sensitivity, situational awareness, and learnt about systems evaluation and strategic thinking.
- Earner has communicated innovation and improvement ideas clearly by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in strategic planning, project management, and project development by presenting an improvement proposal. They have gained awareness of visionary and future facing thinking and learnt about visualisation and innovative thinking.
- Earner has produced evidence of learning and progression by completing an employer-led, real-world communication challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in organising evidence, using feedback, and reflection by organising evidence and summarising learning. They have gained awareness of their progress, next steps, transferable skills, and learnt about interviews, curriculum vitae (CV), and applications.
Earners of this badge have completed a growth and innovation challenge by analysing feedback and performance, evaluating improvement actions, and planning next-stage development linked to a target role. They analysed root causes, developed options with risks and benefits, produced an evidence-based proposal, presented to stakeholders, managed questions professionally, evaluated outcomes, and curated a role-aligned portfolio with reflection and next steps.
Earning Criteria:
- Earner has used a growth mindset to support learning and improvement by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in having a growth mindset and learning from mistakes by evaluating learning and improvement over time. They have gained awareness of resilience and future facing thinking, and learnt about strategic thinking and strategic planning.
- Earner has identified problems and generated improvement options by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in systems thinking, systems analysis, and systems evaluation by analysing problems and justifying improvement proposals. They have gained awareness of problem sensitivity, situational awareness, and learnt about solutions focused approaches and strategy.
- Earner has communicated innovation and improvement ideas clearly by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in innovation, innovative thinking, and visionary thinking by influencing decisions using evidence. They have gained awareness of organisational change, driving change, and learnt about acting on ideas and proactivity.
- Earner has produced evidence of learning and progression by completing an employer-led, real-world growth and innovation challenge. They have gained and demonstrated skills in curriculum vitae (CV) writing, cover letter writing, job applications, and reflection by curating a progression-focussed portfolio. They have gained awareness of transferable skills, professionalism, and learnt about reflection, progress tracking, and interview skills.