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The TTandC Practitioner Network

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The Practitioner Network (P-Net) is a community of trainers and consultants that work across Scotland, Ireland, Wales & England (and possibly beyond) delivering transition-related products and services to businesses and organisations in a professional, commercial capacity. 

The practitioners in the P-Net are paid for the delivery work, and are often involved in the selling/positioning of the work too, with a cut going to TTandC to cover its operational costs, and remaining profit going to support the work of the wider Transition Network. All practitioners are passionate about helping make transition happen and are already firmly anchored in their own local transition initiative.

Benefits of the Practitioner Network

Being a member of the P-Net entitles a practitioner to deliver certain services for which they are paid on a self-employed basis, and to benefit from a support infrastructure that includes:

  • Product support – service materials, resources, ongoing service development, marketing collateral and case studies, expert advice and guidance on delivering the services, sharing of knowledge with other practitioners etc.
  • Process support – joining process, work allocation guidelines, induction, skills logs, sales and delivery process, code of conduct, proposal templates and review, contracts, intellectual property agreements, pipeline visibility, invoicing & administration etc.
  • Knowledge support – latest relevant info on peak oil, climate change, resilience thinking, transition, economics and so on, and the opportunity to further thinking in all of these areas.

Entry to the P-Net is only through a practitioner training or train-the-trainer courses, or through significant contribution to service development. There is a clearly-defined, transparent application process that sets criteria for acceptance onto a course, and then sign-off on course completion.

This objective assessment process is essential if TTandC is to ensure that the practitioners working with businesses and organisations have the appropriate skills to ensure the attendees’/clients’ satisfaction, and to work within their own comfort zones (or possibly just at the edge of it!).

We strongly recommend that you co-ordinate with others in your transition initiative about local representation in the TTandC Practitioner Network.

Process for joining the Practitioner Network

The detailed process by which which people can join the P-Net is as follows:

  1. TTandC develops a new product/service and defines the criteria for being able to deliver it
  2. TTandC publicise upcoming practitioner training or train-the-trainer and invites applications
  3. TTandC reviews applications against criteria (sometimes with co-ordination/input from regions, hubs etc.)
  4. TTandC informs applicants of acceptance or gives feedback
  5. Applicant attends training
  6. At completion of training, an evaluation process is conducted (by self, peers and/or lead practitioner/trainer)
  7. Applicant is signed-off and joins the Practitioner Network, or is given feedback. Some applicants may be asked to help with a delivery in an ‘apprentice’ role before the final decision is made.
  8. Note that each practitioner that is signed-off will be allocated a development level. These will be
  • Apprentice – will work with a Lead practitioner
  • Co-practitioner – will work with another Co-practitioner or a Lead
  • Lead – can work alone or with either of the other 2 development levels.

As a practitioner becomes more experienced and confident with delivering the product, they will change development level. It is not our intention to create hierarchies of practitioners, but to support people as needed to move quickly to being fully capable and confident of delivering this material. This application, sign-off and development process has been used successfully by Transition Training for the last 2 years.

Note that the ERA product is a consulting service that is designed to be delivered by 1 practitioner working alone - of course some ERA projects may require larger teams depending on scope and client needs – but for now we are looking mainly for lead practitioners. This is different to most other TTandC products which generally have 2 paid practitioners doing the delivery as they are more workshop-oriented.

Work allocation

There are agreed processes for how work gets allocated in a fair and transparent manner with the P-Net that take into account: skills, development levels, role in selling the work, location, gender balance and so on. There’s a published rate card for TTandC clients including guidelines for discount/increasing rates and clarity about the % of this rate that is paid to the practitioner. These will all be explained during the TTandC induction process.