Capacity for Change A planner of the future · Capacity for Change A planner of the future. THEMES....
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Kevin Murray
Chair
Capacity for Change
A planner of the future
PiP skills forum as response to…
• Changing skills needs, priorities
• Changing legislation, knowledge, practice
• Reduced staff resources, post-recession
• Issues of leadership
• New ways of learning
• Need for collaboration – learning & practice
Portal www.partnersinplanning.scot
• A&DS
• Scottish Consultants Network
• Key Agencies Group
• Dundee, Glasgow & Heriot-Watt Universities
• HOPS, COSLA
• Improvement Service, PAS
• Homes for Scotland
• RTPI Scotland & RTPI Education
• Scottish Government
• Young Planners
PiP hierarchy of activity
1 Development of skills/impacts
2 Promotion of information/opportunity
3 Co-ordination of players/strategy
4 Analysis of gaps/priorities
5 Evidence of issues/need
PiP principles
• Support all professionals involved in statutory system
• As simple as possible - not overcomplicate or overburden authorities
• Recognise differing needs in different roles and different career stages
• Need to be cost effective
• Approaches delivered through partnership of organisations and sectors
• Public sector planner focus - but embrace all sectors
• Ensure new learning suitable for organisation
• Sharing good practice and experiences
Possible future steps
Collaborative review – with Skills Development Scotland
Skills & experience sharing
Mentoring
Planning Performance Frameworks
Kitemarked training and CPD
Change & pressure
Legislation, policy & plans
Technology, data + design
Engaged, active public
Lifestyle, expectations
Political and media visibility
Speed & efficiency
Dealing with change
• What is changing
• How to understand
• How to accept
• How to envision change
• How to move on
Planner of the future?
• Knowledge
• Skills
• Culture
• Behaviours
New culture and skills ?
Simplification & streamlining?
(1) Knowledge
• Well informed about latest planning practice
• Legislation yes, but also about thinking behind good practice
• Climate change & resilience
• Design & well-being
• Future market aware- alternative and emergent uses and activities - town centre change, housing & social care, innovation & start-ups.
(2) Skills needs and opportunities
• Collaborative working
• Community engagement
• Development finance
• Health and wellbeing
• Heritage and archaeology
• Infrastructure provision
• Negotiation
• Resilience and sustainability
• Strategic planning
• Urban design
(2) Skills
• Good communicators and presenters– GIS, video, social media and any new technologies.
• Facilitators, mediators and brokers
• Good analysis & judgement skills– of place solutions, of strategies and processes, but also – of characters, developers, designers & community representatives.
(3) Culture
• Flexible and adaptable - revisit and re-address any situation that changes. Not overly rigid.
• Balance of intellectual curiosity and creativity in analyses - able to generate visions, ideas and solutions.
• Explain though argument and presentation - for committees, communities or even appeals.
• A committed and happy future planner is best placed to do this effectively.
• Both aspirational utopian and a pragmatic realist – a utopian realist!
(4) Behaviours
• Balance of open-ness, confidence and empathetic humility - especially when working with public
• Show we care about people and places we work for
• Develop a protective thick skin, shared commitment - a patient, collective resolve.
• Advocate public interest place-making
• Build cross community capacity
• Explain implications of weak strategies and poor development decisions.
• Engender trust in ourselves, our profession and wider strategic processes
From ‘generalist planner’…
• Utility planner Flexible
• Rounded planner Multi-skilled
• Total planner Holistic, progressive
• Super planner Active, specialist-generalist
• Future planner Utopian, utilitarian, realist
1 long term view
The best way to predict the future
is to invent it.
Alan Kay, computer scientist
1 long term view
The best way to predict the future
planner is to invent it.
Kevin Murray, Not a computer scientist
Risks
• no adaption, evolution
• delay in investment/development
• workplace stress
• changing careers
• lose benefits of good planning
• things won’t join up
Benefits
• Develop skills, adaptability
• Enhance our performance
• Enable change/investment
• More joined up solutions
• Fewer losses from planning
• Communities will benefit
Kevin Murray
Chair
Capacity for Change
A planner of the future
THEMES