The local institute network now has annual development & assessment meetings, created by the network of local institutes and supported by the regional membership team.
Each year, following the AGM the immediate past president is required to complete an annual local institute assessment looking back on their presidential term. The incoming president is then also required to discuss their annual development plans for the forthcoming presidential year.
The annual local institute assessment is intended to support and ensure consistent high performance across the entire local institute network. The assessment highlights instances of best practice so that all institutes can focus their resources on the right activities. The ambition is to create a roadmap for institute councils to follow as they strive to provide the best service to their members.
The assessment criteria have been agreed in consultation with the local institute network and approved by the CII Board. Local institutes are measured across a number of categories and where appropriate, assessment measures will reflect the membership composition of individual institutes. The questions asked relate to the last full presidential year, with the exception of those in respect of local institute finances which are in respect of the previous financial year.
The development part of the meetings key purpose is to help incoming presidents plan for the year ahead, ensuring that their institute delivers the services required by members such as CPD provision, social events and communications; as well as ensuring good governance is adhered to.
The plans also support and underpin every local institutes ongoing progression and provide a helpful barometer for your institutes progress and development in the key areas linked to your annual assessment; which in turn links to your institutes annual funding.
Annual Assessment & Development plan meetings are also used to discuss a number of other initiatives such as your grant payment and a number of annual key projects being developed by the regional membership team.
Importantly these written plans will become historic documents allowing each institute to record key achievements on a year on year basis.
Your assessment & development plans can be found within the My LI section once you have logged in, this can be found in your role page.