Developing your Staff, Volunteers and Management Committee

This page will guide you to useful resources to support you in developing your staff, volunteers and management committee members.

Click on the links to find out more

Skills Third Sector Website Action Learning Different Ways of Learning Ladder4Learning

Training Providers & Consultants SKiLD- Skills and Knowledge for Local Development Speaking with Confidence

Skills Third Sector

This website that focuses on skills support for people who work in the Third or Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector. It is set up to to enable people in third sector organisations to have the skills to make an ever growing contribution to their communities. To find out more Click Here

Action Learning

Action Learning is a creative way of finding solutions to issues you may have in your work. It helps you make sense of current issues that are affecting you at work and is an energetic, action-focused way of learning and development.Voscur has staff skilled in action learning facilitation and has run a variety of sets for Chairs, development workers and managers.

If you would like us to organise action learning sets in a tailor made capacity. please contact Sophie Bayley on 0117 909 9949

Voscur has developed a case study with NCVO and Volunteering Bristol on how useful Action learning has been for Volunteer Managers to see it please click here

Online Course: Effective Voluntary Sector Management

Effective Voluntary Sector Management, launched by NCVO is aimed at people who have recently joined the voluntary sector. Volunteers and trustees can also benefit from this course. The online course is run by Working For A Charity, a project within NCVO and part of the UK Workforce Hub and is accredited by Roehampton University and the online element will provide 10 credits at HE level 1. Find out more: www.workingforacharity.org.uk

Different ways of Learning

Training is a useful way of learning, but what are the other ways we learn. We may not always have the money to go on courses, however affordable they are. Have you thought about some other options that your staff in your organisation could do:

mentoring
coaching
action learning
on the job learning
reading
research on the internet

Ladder4learning

ladder4learning supports and facilitates development and learning for people and organisations in the community and voluntary sectors and social enterprises in south west England and parts of the south east. In the current economic climate, voluntary and community sector organisations will be searching for cost effective ways to help develop, retain and enhance their staff skills, the website helps by pulling together courses and resources aimed at the sector. Ladder4learning provides a dedicated helpline and comprehensive website for training and development needs as well as offering impartial, practical advice. To find out more click here

Skills Audits & Training Needs Analyses

A Skills Audit can also be called a Training Needs Analysis. This is a tool which will help you identify the skills your staff has and the skills that it lacks.

Voscur's Skills Audit

Voscur and Ladder4learning (Part of the Learning Curve) have developed a new toolkit for small organisations.The toolkit is for organisations to use in order to assess the training and development needs of their staff.

This toolkit has been developed with the voluntary and community sector in mind. We hope you find it useful and a good starting point for developing your staff.

Click here to download the toolkit

If you have any feedback on how you have used it or require any support with the process, then please call Sophie Bayley on 0117 909 9949 email: sophieb@voscur.org

Other Training Needs Analyses

There is a new Training Needs Analysis section on the UK Workforce Hub’s website. It includes downloadable toolkits for carrying out a wide range of training needs analyses. click here for more details

Get Skilled

The Get Skilled workbook is about how to create a learning and development plan for a third sector organisation. It is for people who are working with local groups that need to develop a strategic and realistic approach to learning. If you would like to receive a hard copy of the publication or want to find out more click here

Training Providers & Consultants

Voscur has directories on local Training Providers and Consultants. If you are interested in using trainers or consultants, it may be worth visiting Trainers and Consultants Direct which will give you information on working with trainers and consultants and information on other training providers and consultants nationally. Click Here for further information

SKiLD - Skills and Knowledge for Local Development

The SKiLD project is run by NAVCA - National Assocation for Voluntary and Community Action. Its aim is to support infrastructure development workers to be more effective in their roles. It runs a number of low cost courses around the country and has developed a competencies framework for development workers in second tier organisations with an online facility for individuals to fill in. If you are interested in finding out more, Click Here