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Mission Moments: Cutting Through Complexity: How We're Backing Britain's Businesses to Grow

Manisha Gohil

Mission Moments: Cutting Through Complexity: How We're Backing Britain's Businesses to Grow

From 70 stakeholder sessions to 1,200 partner inductions, one civil servant shares how the new Business Growth Service is turning government support for SMEs from a maze into a motorway – and why every simplified application brings us closer to …

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Digital architects for a digital world

Posted by: Nick Dyer, Posted on: 12 October 2017 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, More digital, Skilled people
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DFID Permanent Secretary Nick Dyer looks at how we can unlock the opportunities in digital technology, at home and abroad.

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How blended learning is helping my apprenticeship

Posted by: Nicola Metcalfe, Posted on: 11 October 2017 - Categories: Civil Service Learning, Effective leaders, Skilled people
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An apprenticeship, her department's first involving an external company, is helping Nicola Metcalfe develop her leadership and team management skills.

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World Mental Health Day - how we can all help to make a difference

Posted by: Tom Scholar, Posted on: 10 October 2017 - Categories: A great place to work, Civil Service Leaders
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Treasury Permanent Secretary Tom Scholar looks at some of the ways we can help to look after our own - and each other's - mental health.

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World Mental Health Day - let's talk about mental health in the workplace

Posted by: Jonathan Jones, Posted on: 10 October 2017 - Categories: A great place to work, Civil Service Leaders
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The Civil Service marks World Mental Health Day by launching a 'Talking about mental health' poster campaign.

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Civil Service job sharing going from strength to strength

Posted by: Brian Stanislas MBE, Posted on: 4 October 2017 - Categories: A Brilliant Civil Service, Diversity and inclusion
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In National Work Life Week, Brian Stanislas gives an update on job sharing and flexible working in the Civil Service.

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Top two placing for Fast Stream in Times Top 100

Posted by: John Manzoni, Chief Executive of the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office, Posted on: 4 October 2017 - Categories: A Brilliant Civil Service, Civil Service Leaders
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John Manzoni on the Civil Service's success in a leading graduate employment survey.

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People Survey 2017 - have your say

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 2 October 2017 - Categories: A Brilliant Civil Service, Civil Service Leaders

Jeremy Heywood launches the 2017 Civil Service People Survey.

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Pride in a brilliant Civil Service

Posted by: Shelley Hardman, Jenny Turner and Panos Mylonas, Posted on: 25 September 2017 - Categories: A Brilliant Civil Service, A great place to work, Diversity and inclusion
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In National Inclusion Week, three civil servants describe how they collaborated to stage a cross-departmental diversity and inclusion event, and what they learned.

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Giving students a taste of working in the Civil Service

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 21 September 2017 - Categories: A Brilliant Civil Service, Civil Service Leaders

The Civil Service is taking part in a new scheme to help undergraduates develop the skills they will need in the workplace.

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Developing the index of civil service effectiveness

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 19 September 2017 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
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Jeremy Heywood welcomes the growing collaboration on creating an international framework for measuring civil service performance.

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