Succession planning
From Our Toolkit
Succession planning is about looking at where your group is now, where it needs to go and what you can do to get there. It is about putting a system in place to ensure that when someone leaves you are not left with a black hole of knowledge and expertise – and that there is someone in the wings ready to step into the that role.
CyMAL’s Succession Planning Framework and an action planning template for museums and archives to help support organisations to review what roles and skills are essential and what areas of knowledge are vital for your organisation to continue to operate.
Supporting Communities’s Making a Succession Plan and the Council for British Archaeology’s Succession Planning for Small Community Groups are also useful resources.
- Our toolkit
- Welcome to the toolkit
- How to use this toolkit
- Governance
- Financial planning
- Income generation
- Fundraising
- Collections
- What do we mean by collections?
- The difference between the museum and archive approach
- Things to consider before you start
- Accreditation schemes
- Collections at risk
- Digitising your collection
- Collection management
- Collection care
- Hear it from an expert – Brian Worrell
- Hear it from an expert – Dave Smith
- Audiences
- Learning
- Evaluation
- Access
- Staffing and volunteers
- Community engagement
- Coming soon!
A one-page list of all the sections of the Toolkit.
