Comments on: Getting the Search Controller Assignment Right (First Time!) http://re-search.org.uk/2010/01/21/getting-the-search-controller-assignment-right-first-time/ The bloke that knows sh!t loads of dead cool stuff about search... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:45:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jo Mc http://re-search.org.uk/2010/01/21/getting-the-search-controller-assignment-right-first-time/comment-page-1/#comment-589 Jo Mc Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:50:23 +0000 http://re-search.org.uk/?p=521#comment-589 Many thanks Rob, this has been great to read and realise it can be done. Just at the pre-planning stage at the minute. Thanks again. Jo x Many thanks Rob, this has been great to read and realise it can be done. Just at the pre-planning stage at the minute. Thanks again. Jo x

]]> By: Johnnie http://re-search.org.uk/2010/01/21/getting-the-search-controller-assignment-right-first-time/comment-page-1/#comment-556 Johnnie Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:47:19 +0000 http://re-search.org.uk/?p=521#comment-556 I think a key problem many units have, is not having champions to drive this forward. Once you have some qualified Search Controllers who have been through the assesment, they can then guide and encourage those who are working on it. You also end up with a unit standard template for pre-plans, which keeps everything nice and tidy in the wagon, but also gives you documents to reference. We operated for a long time with no qualified search controllers. Sounds terrible, but I'll bet we are not the only unit to have done this. Once we had one qualified, that individual could help the next, and then it starts to spread. In the communication age, there is no reason why people cannot be guided by people from outside their own unit. Some units are pro-active enough to ask for help, and we have forwarded pre-plans and assesment presentations to other teams who have requested them. Rob, could you collate and list the qualified Search Controllers within ALSAR, so that people know who to speak to for help? (let's not discuss whether this is an ALSAR function rather than a Re-search issue; JFDI!) I think a key problem many units have, is not having champions to drive this forward. Once you have some qualified Search Controllers who have been through the assesment, they can then guide and encourage those who are working on it. You also end up with a unit standard template for pre-plans, which keeps everything nice and tidy in the wagon, but also gives you documents to reference. We operated for a long time with no qualified search controllers. Sounds terrible, but I’ll bet we are not the only unit to have done this. Once we had one qualified, that individual could help the next, and then it starts to spread.

In the communication age, there is no reason why people cannot be guided by people from outside their own unit. Some units are pro-active enough to ask for help, and we have forwarded pre-plans and assesment presentations to other teams who have requested them.

Rob, could you collate and list the qualified Search Controllers within ALSAR, so that people know who to speak to for help? (let’s not discuss whether this is an ALSAR function rather than a Re-search issue; JFDI!)

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