ASDC Management Masterclass: 'From Perfection to Progress'
From perfection to progress - what does that mean?
A very wise friend once offered me the advice: “If you didn’t spend all your time trying to perfect what you do, you’d make far more progress...”
The penny dropped. I spent a lot of my time trying to improve what we were engaged with, when so often good enough was what we needed.
This helped me and my colleagues in many of the organisations I led and in these troubled times has proved to be a key philosophy.
Who's the masterclass for?
This online programme, being delivered by Dr Nick Winterbotham, is aimed at those who want to sharpen their leadership skills and takes a close look at how we can all be more effective and more confident in how we enable our teams to achieve. The programme has been designed for the rising leaders in science centres and museums – for those already contributing to strategic issues while being enthusiastic to take on the challenges that the post-Covid world is presenting.
Are you ready for the next step in your journey in leading science learning? Come and join colleagues from across the ASDC network!
Course content
Part 1: Developing ourselves
Tuesday 18th April
Starting with what our own contribution and awareness will comprise, this workshop will be partly reflective and partly self-auditing on the ways we can rethink strategy, fitness for purpose, focusing on what matters, pooling talents, language and communications.
Part 2: Facing outwards
Tuesday 2nd May
Grounded in day to day experience and the dilemmas faced by the participants, this workshop will look at audiences, market segments, learning strategies and leadership tactics for when the going gets tough.
Each session comprises inputs, challenges, groupwork, action learning sets and learning consolidation.
Dates and cost:
Two day event: Tuesday 18th April and Tuesday 2nd May, 10am to 3.30pm each day
ASDC Member price £210 per person (plus VAT)
Non Member price £240 per person (plus VAT)
This course is limited to 20 places and will be allocated on a first come first-served basis.
Register for the event
About Dr Nick Winterbotham, FMA, FASDC
Currently Director of Winterbotham Associates, Nick also delivers a leadership development programme 'Be The Change'. With a history of working at Tullie House Museum, Eureka! The National Children's Museum, The National Railway Museum, The Arts and Heritage Service, Thinktank, Millennium Point, The Museum of East Anglian Life, The Roald Dahl Museum and the Network for Resilience in Wales, he has also worked as a consultant in a dozen heritage and science related projects. He started his professional career as a classics teacher in Norfolk and is dedicated to museums and cultural learning in all its forms. His doctorate focused on the relationship between schools and museums.
He now supports science, heritage, arts and learning teams in a variety of different roles, particularly in Wales and East Anglia. He has chaired charity teams as diverse as the Association for Science and Discovery Centres, the Group for Education in Museums, the RNLI Heritage Committee and the Learning and Heritage teams at the National Holocaust Centre & Museum.
"My enthusiasm is always for creating strategic and practical solutions for teams, boards and individuals; and, where problems persist, I offer my experience and a fresh pair of eyes and ears to resolve them."
Over the past 35 years, Nick has worked in local authorities, schools, charities, universities, third sector arts organisations and the National Health Service.
Nick's current projects include:
Feedback from previous masterclasses run by Nick:
"The seminars have been so helpful with such insightful contributions. Tonight’s session on funding and visible thinking was the icing on the cake."
"It all made so much sense. I once looked after the national schools, families and outreach programmes at a time of enormous change and tried to build that resilience into my teams (and myself!?) I wish I had attended your programme then… I would have done a better job!"