Developing your skills rather than following the paths of others
Future Permanent Secretaries, Director Generals and SCS will need to develop new skills rather than follow the tried-and-trusted route to the top, says HMRC's Lin Homer.
Future Permanent Secretaries, Director Generals and SCS will need to develop new skills rather than follow the tried-and-trusted route to the top, says HMRC's Lin Homer.
Diversity Champion Sue Owen hails the work done by all the nominees at last week's D&I Awards, and looks forward to the challenge of keeping this momentum up.
Find out more about the teams who have been nominated for a 2015 Civil Service Award. First up, Lorraine Jackson from the Department of Health's Dementia Policy Team.
Now in their 9th year, these awards demonstrate the importance of putting diversity & inclusion at the heart of the Civil Service.
Mark Sedwill, incoming chair of the Civil Service Lifeboat Fund and Home Office Permanent Secretary, looks at the mutual benefits of volunteering.
Philip Rutnam, DfT Permanent Secretary and Civil Service Disability Champion looks at stammering, disability and Mental Health Awareness Day 2015.
This year's Civil Service Live series finished with 2 days at the QEII centre in London. Over 5,000 delegates took part workshops like CS Learning's hack, judging the final of the Innovation Challenge and hearing Frank Abagnale talking about identity theft. Here's 2 days worth of twitter comment...
Having experienced a peak of 2.9 million calls in the last 2 days of the tax return deadline, Ruth Owen looks at how HMRC embraced digital to make customers lives easier.
Sir Jeremy Heywood introduces the One Civil Service interchange scheme announced by Philip Rycroft (right) last week at Civil Service Live Edinburgh.
Ahead of his Civil Service Live presentation, CGI's Andrew Rogoyski looks at personal responsibilities and cyber security.
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