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Creating effective Staff Networks
Our work with Staff Networks is designed to keep everyone moving forward in common purpose.
Staff networks and groups have much to offer by way of new voices, insights, and perspectives. However, the real value comes when they work to support your organisation’s strategic goals, not solely their own objectives.
Through our Staff Networks sessions, we bring together Convenors, members, and Executive Sponsors to discuss how meeting their needs can also enhance the achievements of the whole organisation.
We start by asking three crucial questions:
- What role can staff networks play in supporting the achievement of your organisation’s strategic goals?
- How can groups support and advise each other to develop and advance their own careers in ways that benefit of the whole organisation?
- How can Executive Sponsors support Convenors and hold them accountable so that their work with a staff group is recognised and able to enhance their own career?
This provides a useful framework for discussing terms of reference, roles and responsibilities, annual group and network goals, and how to measure progress.
Follow-up sessions then concentrate on developing the capacity of Convenors and groups to succeed on the terms they have agreed. At the same time, we’ll work with Executive Sponsors to ensure that staff groups are properly supported.
Our Staff Networks process will give you…
Clarity on the contribution of staff groups and networks, greater accountability, and a renewed focus on moving forward in line with your strategic imperatives.
Let’s start the conversation.
If you are looking for ways to reset or strengthen relationships with your staff groups and networks, please contact us to see how we can help.
What our clients say.
I engaged Simon in 2023 to deliver a series of workshops for the Chairs of our Community Support Groups (CSG’s) who were floundering with both purpose and added value. He brought a refreshing and much needed challenge to how they were set up, their purpose and how they engaged with the other CSG’s and the business. This had a tangible and very positive impact on how the groups organise and support their communities.
