June 2022 to January 2023
Building on the findings of Culture24’s recent survey of over 95 different cultural organisations into the impact of hybrid on working practices, our most recent groundbreaking Let’s Get Real (LGR) action research programme focused on navigating the challenges of hybrid working to help your organisation become more inclusive and resilient.
The programme was run in partnership with Birmingham Museums Trust and began in June 2022. We brought a cohort of 9 organisations together to discuss the challenges and to collaborate to develop tactics that can exploit the opportunities offered by hybrid working.
The kind of issues organisations experimented with included:
- improving communication and planning using collaborative digital tools
- designing hybrid programmes of work that mix physical and digital
- increasing digital skills, literacies and confidence within your organisation
- changing the rhythm of how you work
- ways hybrid working support the diversification of audiences online
- exploring the best ways to use shared hybrid spaces
- understanding staff wants, needs and expectations around hybrid working
Participants were guided by Culture24’s experienced leadership team Jane Finnis and Anra Kennedy, working in partnership with Zak Mensah, Birmingham Museums Trust co-CEO and Culture24 trustee. The programme called on a range of guest speakers from within and beyond the cultural sector who contributed their expertise and helped us to create a supportive, engaged community of peers with a shared sense of purpose. You can discover more of the opportunities and challenges faced by the sector in this recording of our recent ‘Hybrid hertiage’ seminar, featuring lead speaker Zak Mensah and guests, Lisa Westcott Wilkins, Co-founder and Managing Director of DigVentures and Mark Bishop, Director of Customer & Cause at the National Trust for Scotland.
