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
New! Skills Third Sector Website New! Liberating leadership New Leadership training - Investing in Leaders
Train to Gain -money for training Action Learning Different Ways of Learning Ladder4Learning Skills Audits & Training Needs Analyses
Get Skilled NEW! Voscur and Learning Curve develop new Toolkit! NEW
Training Providers & Consultants SKiLD- Skills and Knowledge for Local Development Speaking with Confidence
Skills Third Sector is a new 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
Liberating Leadership - new training course
Liberating Leadership is an empowering and accessible new approach to leadership that will be a powerful resource for change in communities.
If your role is to give hands-on support to local community groups then this practical programme will enable you to support groups to recognise and grow their leadership.
There are several new courses being held in London over the next coming months. The three-day programme will enable development workers to help groups recognise and grow their leadership role. For more information on dates of courses click here or for general information about the programme click here
*New* Investing in Leaders: Leadership Bursaries and Cross Sector Learning for Third Sector Support Providers
In partnership with South West Forum, ACEVO (Association of Chief Executives for Voluntary Organisations) is piloting leadership development opportunities in the South West and other regions offering:
- 30 third sector leaders to access public or private sector mentors
- 15 third sector leaders to take part in cross sector Action Learning Sets
- 30 third sector leaders to access bursaries for 50% discount on various leadership events around the country
For a full list of courses click here (please note these places are for leaders working in support provider organisations often called infrastructure organisations)
For more information in the Investing in Leaders programme please contact Erin McFeely or call (0113) 243 2333
**Money for Training**
Trainto Gain have a new Leadership and Management Development Programme which enables organisations to gain a grant of up to £1000 when organisations put in £500 matched funding to assist organisations in development of management. To download more information click here
For more details on how to access this funding, please contact the South West Region's Third Sector Skills Broker, Marisa McClelland on 01202 47607 email: marisa@learningcurve.org.uk
Train to Gain and the Third Sector is a document produced by the Learning and Skills Council to show you how to access support for training for staff and volunteers. Click Here to download
To find out more about Train to Gain and how to get a Train to Gain Skills Broker to come to your organisation and assess your staff's skills, click here
Learning Opportunities for Third Sector Leaders
Investing in Leaders: Leadership Bursaries and Cross Sector Learning for Third Sector Support Providers
In partnership with South West Forum, ACEVO are piloting leadership development opportunities for leaders from third sector support organisations.
Opportunities include:
access to public or private sector mentors
opportunities to take part in cross sector Action Learning Sets
bursaries for 50% discount on a range of national ACEVO Leadership events.
Deadline for applications to the programme is 31st August. More information is available 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
There is a case study on how useful Action learning can be for organisations on the Improvement Page 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 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.
Click here to download the toolkit
Skills Audit Toolkit
Welcome to the new and improved Skills Audit Toolkit. 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 would like to have a word copy of this document to modify, 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
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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
Speaking with Confidence
Voscur has been running some courses on how to speak with confidence and has some useful resources for you. Click on each one to download.
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