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Explore how housing management adapts to austerity, emphasizing core services, IT demands, data analysis, and customer engagement while upholding legal frameworks, professionalism, teamwork, and customer demographics.
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Developing Housing Staff in an Age of Austerity Adrienne Reid Incommunities
What’s changed? • Greater focus on core service and VFM • Fewer people meeting same demand • Managers span increased • High expectations of IT and social media • The need for data and analysis • Review of customer engagement
What’s Not Changed • People business- with people, for people • Basic Housing Management and Asset Management • Working within Legal and Regulatory frameworks • Business drivers- maximise occupancy, collect rent due, increase supply • Customer demographics
Effect on Knowledge and Skills • Front line professionalism- release management time • Good people and team-working skills, developing insight • Driven by values and purpose • Good work design and the use of measures • In-house IT and BI, not “off the peg” • Less specialism, more generic? • Transformational Management, not task
What we are focusing on. Organisational development and leadership Apprenticeships/ certified training Shaping values through experience and challenge, the role of recruitment and induction
Reinforcing Knowledge Reflective Practice • Surgeries • Action learning groups/ team review • Reviews and appraisals • Role of manager as mentor