1SUMMARY OF THE KEY POSITIVE WAYS THAT YOU, AS INDIVIDUALS SUGGESTED THAT YOU CAN IMPROVE, DEVELOP OR ENHANCE THE ORGANISATION/BUSINESS

  • Establish Team Working
  • Improve Communication
  • Share knowledge and best practice
  • Closer cross-site working to achieve greater consistency in practice
  • Skills development, training and learning opportunities for staff/volunteers
  • Development of educational material especially in relation to visitor experience and school curriculum for website and hard copy
  • Encourage creativity and listen to others’ ideas, valuing their opinions
  • Maintain high standards, particularly of customer service
  • Make a personal contribution to marketing and promotion and enhance public awareness
  • Working hard and prioritise workload
  • Increased awareness of costs/waste
  • Improve the working environment, clear the rubbish and make it easier to maintain the building(s).
  • Positive outlook and approach – be supportive and professional
  • Specific work-related activities eg help to solve the Tengo tills issue, continue developing the weddings business so that it becomes a widely known venue, develop an iris collection for the garden, Horticultural classes for public and education groups, write up research for P&P and SAS
  • Champion ‘green’ issues
  • Promote membership and gift aid, sell more books
  • Improve computer access information including library material
  • Learn more about the property I work in.
  • Improve forward planning & daily and project planning processes
  • Continue to deliver exciting and engaging events programmes
  • Raise awareness of opportunities at different sites and for different audiences
  • Develop links with other organisations, local, regional and national
  • Develop new ways to introduce discoveries to the public eg handling events, lectures, volunteer tutorials, outreach packets for curricula
  • Link with other properties for more Friends’ Archaeology and Education events eg Festival of British Archaeology
  • Keep developing new exhibitions and displays for old and new assemblages and topics
  • Incorporate new technologies and new discoveries to raise public awareness in collaboration with other institutions (BM ,Universities, PAS)
  • Raise awareness of the role of the portable antiquities scheme within Sussex Past to encourage best practice and collaboration between members of the public and heritage professionals.
  • Our reviews each year ask the following questions, which could be pooled and implemented
  • Support the Trustee/Staff relationship to best help SAS.

How can you or your team members help with the strategic aims in the future?

By making the Society a more financially sustainable business

Improving the quality of the services we offer visitors

Working more effectively as a team at individual sites or across the society