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Goal 5: A skilled, competent, flexible and committed workforce including volunteers, that is capable
of ensuring the Royal BC Museum meets its goals.
Objective 1: Align staff and volunteers to core business functions and ensure that the right people with appropriate knowledge, skills,
and abilities are in the right positions.
Strategies
• Continue to implement the annual planning process and integrate with Employee Performance and Development Plans.
• Improve volunteer and staff orientation procedures.
• Continue to maintain volunteer contribution to Royal BC Museum.
• Develop Succession Plan.
• Recruit staff and volunteers in alignment with new vision, goals and objectives for critical positions.
Performance Measures
Target
04/05 05/06 06/07
Result
Staff wellness documented through
sick leave and long-term disability days
Staff wellness documented through
qualitative assessment of the
organization
Staff competency improvement
through number of training days
documented
Survey to be
conducted
Recommendations
implemented as
required
Survey conducted
Average use of sick leave was 4.82 days
per employee, significantly less than the
public sector average of 6.73.
A staff survey was completed to gauge
employee satisfaction and guide
development of quality of worklife
improvements.
1.4 training days per employee
Two staff are supported annually in
achieving Master’s level education
Forty staff received training from the
Canadian Museum of Nature and began
collection risk assessment. All staff
received training in dealing with violence
in the workplace as per recommendation
from BC Public Service – Kamloops
Report.
Organizational strength through
volunteers as documented by number
of hours of donated volunteer time
% of Succession Plan complete
50,000 hrs
Succession Plan
completed with
annual targets
50,000
Annual targets
met
50,000
Annual targets
met
42,483 self-reported hours donated by a
total of 621 volunteers engaged in 800
different assignments. Hours for public
programming volunteers were lower
than anticipated based on the 3-month
timeframe for the Eternal Egypt exhibit.
Succession Plan complete.
Implementation begins June 2005
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