MBBPC Working Group / Project Outline Definition |
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Title |
Role-based Communities
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Driver / background |
The treasurer group is a good example of a role-based community. It comprises all member group treasurers. They communicate, share experience and occasionally meet - thereby helping to develop and adopt consistent good practices. In the past, there have also been occasional meetings of member group chairs, which have been very useful. An initiative to enable other role-based groups to meet up informally during the spring 2011 convention was well-received as an idea to be developed. All member group committees have a number of 'standard' roles and/or activities which need to be carried out. This is seen as an important step towards the development of role-based training for member groups, and role-based best-practice guidance. The establishment of role-based communities will allow much of the guidance and training content to be self-developed by the member groups themselves.
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Lead |
Member of MBBPC (or someone co-opted to MBBPC for the duration of this project). (Kevin Murrell has indicated an interest to be involved) |
Structure & Membership |
Project reporting to MB Best Practice Committee To include some member group representatives of different roles. It might be useful to include a member of the Finance Committee.
During the project, there will also be a number of role-based working groups, reporting to MBBPC, who will facilitate their role-based communities (and potentially also lead the development of training content and guidance for these communities).
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Purpose |
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Objectives / Deliverables |
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Timescales |
It would be helpful to initiate the pilot before the start of the autumn convention, and to be in a position to publicize forward plans in time for the spring convention. In order to allow time for all communities to be implemented and monitored for the first 3 months, the project would be envisaged to take 9-12 months. Work on developing guidance will continue beyond this time as 'business as usual'.
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Approach |
Use the volunteer portal to publicize the work and to get volunteers for the working groups. Use the first 2 role-based working groups to do much of the development work in terms of processes and testing the communication with the communities themselves. The final 'BAU' processes should also be such that the member group committee members themselves take ownership for much of the activity and support. (Self-help approach).
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Authority |
Membership Board (mainly delegated to MBBPC)
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Comments
Roll-out
Submitted by Steve Burrows on
While the pilot activity is beneficial and necessary to achieve some outcomes, I think that the "Establish online mechanisms and processes for enabling the communities to meet, share information, develop collateral." could be delivered for all roles from the start, e.g. subscription mailing lists for chairs, secretaries, treasurers, membership secretaries, events secretaries, publicity officers, social media officers. These would enable officers in those roles to start collaborating on common problem solving and self-help immediately, whilst allowing them to develop their role-based community to a sufficient point of maturity that it is ready to develop and share best practice.