Training

Training staff is an important aspect of managing change, particularly for managing a transition to digital recordkeeping. Staff need a mixture of instruction and practical, hands on exercises and experience to achieve confidence in operating records systems and new practices,

We deliver a range of specialist recordkeeping and archives management training services aimed at ensuring the reliability, authenticity and accessibility of records over time.

We design customised training for clients and deliver generic skill development courses in records and archives management principles, practices, tools and applications. We can customise a program to support your unique recordkeeping requirements or design an outcomes-oriented training strategy, e.g. user acceptance of a new recordkeeping system.

Our courses target staff with different levels of recordkeeping responsibility. They seek to:

• Improve and refresh existing skills among recordkeeping practitioners;
• Introduce new practitioners to the key concepts, principles and practices of good records management;
• Provide management with frameworks for understanding, developing managing recordkeeping strategies.

Professional Level Courses (on demand)

Recordkeeping Innovation has also developed and presents a range of professional and technical courses, including:

• Appraisal
• Archival Descriptive Systems
• Arrangement and Description
• Demystifying Recordkeeping Metadata
• Design sustainable records systems
• Digital Recordkeeping
• Finding Aids
• Information Seeking Behaviour
• Providing A Reference Service
• Records Continuum
• Series System

Archives professional development courses

Recordkeeping Innovation has provided a number of archival agencies with core archives competency modules for the Archives Professional Development Framework. The modules are required to align with the standards and requirements prescribed by Archives New Zealand and are aimed at archives staff working across government with little or no previous experience. We have also developed and delivered introductory courses for archivists for the Australian Society of Archivists.

Training Assessment and Planning

Trainee Testimonials

Records Management Fundamentals

"Very informative. I look forward to attending future courses relating to records management."

Records Management Fundamentals

"I found the trainer to be very knowledgeable, engaging and articulate…the course was always interesting."

Implementing a Retention and Disposal Authority

"...very well presented and the exercises were practical and useful."

Developing a Records Taxonomy

"[I] really enjoyed it. Love your style, love how you made the topic exciting and interesting."

Developing a records Taxonomy

"Excellent presentation, well paced information, gained more from course than I expected. It has also raised issues which are important to my work."