Communications & Engagement - team development

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In order to understand the current status of skills within the team, particularly in light of the changes that have happened since the beginning of the pandemic and with the new people that have since joined the team, we would like to do a skills and strengths review.

This will help us to identify those individuals with specific communications and engagement skills that others in the team could also benefit from. These people will then be encouraged to lead on that topic for the team, and to share learning and upskill others.

We would like all members of the team to answer the survey below which will inform the first steps of our team development.

In order to understand the current status of skills within the team, particularly in light of the changes that have happened since the beginning of the pandemic and with the new people that have since joined the team, we would like to do a skills and strengths review.

This will help us to identify those individuals with specific communications and engagement skills that others in the team could also benefit from. These people will then be encouraged to lead on that topic for the team, and to share learning and upskill others.

We would like all members of the team to answer the survey below which will inform the first steps of our team development.

Your work

Please share a summary of the communications and engagement work you have done below. For each example, please include:

  1. The customer
  2. The challenge
  3. The approach
  4. Specialist communications and engagement skills used
  5. Benefits/difference made



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