On 12 March the IHBC’s Director, Seán O’Reilly, and LETS Liaison Officer, Kate Kendall, will offer ‘drop-in’ hour-long CPD sessions to staff of Historic Scotland and RCHAMS, to introduce the IHBC’s evolving team-training strategy, the IHBC’s ‘TeamStarter’ programme.
Seán O’Reilly said: ‘We’re really hugely grateful to Historic Scotland and RCAHMS officers for their phenomenal support in this initiative, including offering Historic Scotland’s boardroom, as well as their many colleagues. We are also delighted to have this opportunity to help make a difference to mainstream development practice on the ground’.
‘It’s great for Scotland too, as the kind of approach that TeamStarter takes reflects how we will all need to adjust as pressure on local authority conservation services increase: minimising costs while maximising benefits.’
‘For example, the TeamStarter programme can play a hugely beneficial role in the cost-effective ‘mainstreaming’ of conservation awareness and practice, which will help target conservation skills more effectively simply by raising the awareness of conservation in allied disciplines and activities.’
‘And by better tying together practice across both mainstream and specialist conservation activities, our members can learn more effectively from mainstream practitioners while also helping standards rise there.’
Details on the ‘TeamStarter’ primers for staff at Historic Scotland and RCAHMS are under circulation in those organisations, so if you work there be sure to look them out as unique and, for some, critical CPD opportunities.’
The IHBC will be repeating the programme later in the year, elsewhere in and beyond Scotland, as more detailed TeamStarter resources are developed in consultation with users and supporters.
If you want to prepare yourself for the IHBC’s TeamStarter experience now, work through our WebStarter
For RCAHMS see http://www.rcahms.gov.uk
For Historic Scotland see http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk
