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What were enablers and barriers to the Taking the Lead approach? What context do we operate in?
Enablers
Enablers
- Risk taking, innovation, interest from participants
- Project was new and exciting
- Personal gain and development for participants
- Group development opportunities, chance to learn to work better together
- Great networking opportunity, realising that we are part of a bigger network
- Signing up to the whole 'package' created commitment in participants
- Making new friends, sharing skills and visiting each other
- Time-limited project made it easier to commit and engage
- Supportive manager, with Taking the Lead seen as a priority and with permission given to work nationally
- Supportive colleagues, local team buying in
- Need to work remotely and in a smart way
- Funding from National Lottery Heritage Fund
- A worthwhile project priority (understanding the importance and outcomes of Taking the Lead)
- NAAONB buy-in to the programme
- NAAONB supporting and buying into TWG work and outputs
- NAAONB coordination
- AONB teams willing to contribute time & energy
- Taking the Lead hit a critical mass - we are part of something 'BIG'!
- Regular meetings ensured good momentum
Barriers
Barriers
- Not all team members are open to behaviour change / psychometric profiling (sometimes previous negative experience), this could create tensions in local teams and requires a neutral and external facilitator
- Funding coming to an end - how do we cover costs (venues, time, coordination, etc.) going forward?
- Lack of a formal structure to carry on might make us lose momentum
- Lack of ownership from participants themselves?
- We must be brought together and challenged in order to take things forward - do we depend on an 'outside agency' to carry this on?
- Lack of clarity over how Glover Review will be taken forward => what do we do next?
- TIME and capacity (local and national) - what can local AONBs and NAAONB commit to next?
- Differences between core and project staff and between full time and part time staff - how can everyone engage in such activities going forward?
- How do we engage AONBs not involved in Taking the Lead so far?
- Lack of associated budget options for TWGs ; Lack of clarity on NAAONB support
- Geography: national meetings can be onerous and difficult to organise, some teams quite remote
- Lack of access to the NAAONB - this must be a 2-way process
- NAAONB comms: no staff / no access to national comms
Wider context
Wider context
- Virtual Spark (11 participants)
- Resilience & Governance of NAAONB - Trustee Workshop (11th Dec 2019)
- Lead Officers meeting (Feb' 2020)
- Glover Review - National Landscape Service - what governance?
- Further opportunities for staff development?
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