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Project
Management/Program Management
- Recruit/train
new kinds of project management./cultural workers in museums/archives/libraries.
- How
do we ensure that our institutions remain adaptable and can actually
connect with communities?
- Diversity
management. Does one manage personality and identity issues?
- How
can a group management approach be developed?
- Need
a national database of cultural heritage projects with steering
committee members, access to discussion groups, a newsletter with
updates on projects, project status, and the like. This would
facilitate communication and help prevent overlap while encouraging
cooperation.
- Need
a registry of skilled people and cultural heritage workers. This
is particularly in private cultural institutions in S. Africa.
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Need to infuse museums with flair and melodrama. How can project
management and creativity be brought together?
- Need
for budget training. How to manage, abide by, report and develop
budgets is central and lacking at present. This is critical to
completing projects and sustaining credibility over the long term.
- Need
to manage projects and programs at museums/archives/libraries
with an understanding that you also must market to the public.
- Need
to share National Research Foundation Data. How do we make this
available and share it widely? It is critical to not replicate
these valuable materials, and to make others aware of existing
resources.
- Electronic
resources tend to be transitory. Need to develop/keep a long term
vision and make judicious decisions balancing immediate and long
term project concerns.
- Equally
important to training seminars is incubating projects in communities
that can be training grounds for people who are working on these
projects. Follow-up and ongoing mentorships after summer workshops
is also critical. Need to encourage this for training and skill
development.
- Need
to develop new notions of management. Need to be exposed to what
management means. A forum for exchange among and between project
managers would be very useful.
- Need
to identify key skills for successful project management and individuals
who possess these skills .
- Develop
projects from the inside out. What is the purpose and outcomes
of these endeavors? Need a holistic, integrative approach.
- How
do you share authority with the community? Incorporation of voices,
involvement in management, funding in communities is critical.
How do you sustain relationships over the long term?
- Training
in fundraising skills.
- Develop
ways to work across sectors.
- Create
a consultation team that could pool knowledge and experience so
all institutions could make use of their expertise and resources.
(Creating an "A Team.")
- Developing
management skills must become a personal career goal.
- Need
for the Ministries to have supporting visions/formulas that will
ensure that cultural institutions will be sustained. This may
mean more allocation of funding for cultural industry from government,
or greater access to funding resources. It also may involve a
need to resolve government level questions and resolve the contradiction
of simultaneously shutting down the teaching of history, and pushing
of cultural heritage.
- Need
to be advocates for culture on all fronts.
- Cultural
heritage training programs and museums should be nationally accredited
as educational providers.
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