>>> Nicole Harris <[log in to unmask]> 16/08/2007 15:23 >>
>John Chapman from Becta quoting me quoting Andy Swiffin...but the
message is relevant and hopefully clear!
>“One of the key messages from the day was the importance of kicking
off the legal part of joining the >>>
>Federation. To quote Andy Swiffin:
‘The great benefit in doing this as soon as possible is that when you
do want to actively participate all of the paperwork is in place.’”
Thanks for your nice report in the blog, Nicole :-)
One small bit of advice I would add to this is - join first with just
one management liaison - yourself. You can add more later.
One reason we're so late joining (apart from the usual process here of
the form being "buried in soft peat for three months") was that the
Janet Tag require each of the management liaisons to respond to an email
confirming their address. It wasn't until 3 weeks after I had received
and responded to this request that I wondered why we still didn't seem
to have "got in". I enquired and found that two of the liaisons had
still not replied (my boss being one of them) .... I thought I was
being clever by including everyone who might need to fulfil the function
at the start, but apparently it wasn't such a good move!
But maybe your site are better at replying to emails?
Cheers
Andy
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