The Coaching Program
* New approaches * Problem solving * Intensive learning
The Coaching Program is designed with the mid-to-advanced career professional in mind. This unique program offers museum professionals the services of a coach/mentor/expert who will guide you through the processes and planning necessary to address challenges faced in your museum. Participation in the program can assist your team with a specific issue or challenge or assist an individual facing professional challenge in a specific area of museum practice. Experts are available on numerous topics and are able to work with you on-line, via teleconferencing, or at your own museum.
You may also access the Coaching Program if you already have an expert coming to your location and require financial assistance and additional support.
Consult an expert
• Strategic planning: What are the steps in developing a strategic plan?
• Governance issues: What does a board need to know about human resources? What is the board’s role in fund development?
• Interpretive planning: What are the steps in developing a holistic interpretive plan?
• Conservation – What are the issues and concerns specific to sacred cultural items within your collection?
• Community engagement – Work through the steps in developing a community engagement plan
• Volunteer recruitment – Work through the development of a volunteer recruitment strategy
• Exhibit design and planning –What are the steps in developing a project management style to exhibit development?
• Policy development - Develop a repatriation policy with the assistance of a coach
• Risk management and analysis
• Succession planning
• On-line and web-based issues: social networking, website development
Our previous participants have worked with coaches on the following issues:
* Interpretation practices
* Museum governance
* Website development
* Development of a corporate sponsorship plan
Coaches
Coaches may be any professional with recognized knowledge and experience in a particular area of interest, practice, and/or museological field.
Benefits
* Provides a short-term, one-to-one, intensive learning experience - when you need it most.
* Allows staff to remain in the workplace and receive an enriching and relevant professional development opportunity
* Provides an opportunity to dedicate focused time to work on a specific challenge, issue, or project
* Develops knowledge and skills under the guidance of a colleague who has expertise in a particular field
* Identifies new links to colleagues and resources in the field
* Provides benefits from an objective outside perspective which can help in generating solutions, ideas or plans
* Helps build confidence for the future in handling situations, projects, or making decisions.
Program Information
Application Process
1. As an institution or individual, identify an issue or area of learning
2. Identify an expert(s) working in your identified area of learning
3.Contact MAS' Professional Development Coordinator to help guide you through the brief application process
4. Engage in the coaching placement and submit a short report to MAS about your experience
5. Go forward with new resources, new connections, and new knowledge
Applicants must be affiliated with an institutional member of the Museums Association of Saskatchewan. Applications for the program are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. This is an on-going program and can accommodate a limited number of requests per year, subject to funding.
Apply
We encourage you to contact our MAS staff person to further discuss this opportunity. Applications for the program are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
Click here for a printable application form.
Or click here for an application you may fill in on your computer with a Microsoft Word program.
Registration Fee
$125 + GST ($131.25) per institution. Payment will be reimbursed if application is unsuccessful or coaching placement cannot be coordinated.
Become a Coach
If you are a professional with recognized knowledge and experience in a particular area of interest, practice, and/or museological field, and are interested in participating as a coach, please send a letter of introduction and resume to the MAS contact below (email, fax, or mail). Please indicate ‘Coaching Program’ in all correspondence.
Contact us
For more information or to apply for the Coaching Program, please contact our MAS staff person.
Jessica Leavens
Professional Development Coordinator
1-306-780-9241
or toll-free in SK: 1-866-568-7386
jessica.leavens@saskmuseums.org
F: 780-9463
424 McDonald Street
Regina SK S4N 6E1
