Historic England looks after the country’s heritage. It’s almost a solutions-focused organisation by definition as its very purpose is to look for what’s worthwhile in the past and do what needs to be done now to preserve it for the future. That’s what we do with our clients too: help them appreciate the resources that they have which will fuel their progress to the future they want.
This means we are highly selective in our delving into the past - overlooking the less interesting in favour of the more significant. For Historic England, as with any organisation, the resources are finite. It cannot do everything, not even everything it would like to do in the realm of heritage. So it settles on specific projects which it stands a good chance of accomplishing. By necessity it works step by step into an emergent future of changing priorities and changing contexts.
And so the SF training for Historic England’s HR team turned out to be a great, natural fit. The team members were aware of a tendency to do too much, to respond to every request that comes in their direction. They loved the idea of asking their clients to be clear about what they wanted. That would create a platform from which to make a clear decision about whether the HR people should take it on, or whether the responsibility still sat with the client, who maybe needed only a nugget of information or a prompt in the right direction to get on with it for themselves.
And so the SF training for Historic England’s HR team turned out to be a great, natural fit. The team members were aware of a tendency to do too much, to respond to every request that comes in their direction. They loved the idea of asking their clients to be clear about what they wanted. That would create a platform from which to make a clear decision about whether the HR people should take it on, or whether the responsibility still sat with the client, who maybe needed only a nugget of information or a prompt in the right direction to get on with it for themselves.
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