...creativity, and from different cultures, languages and skills we create new knowledge, experiences and ways of thinking. Imagine a toolbox with only one type of tool or a box of...
...Topics for discussion range from the strategic, including a Vision 2020 for the whole service, to important detail, such as how we can better manage poor performance, promote more porous...
...background knowledge (other than one conversation) and weeks later, was invited to an interview. Wonderful feeling As I sat in Starbucks hours later, I got a welcome call saying I...
...us identify our blind spots and think about what we could be doing better. Set your goal Start with a clear goal. Or, as Stephen Covey, author of ‘The 7...
...colleagues (level transfer and promotion) who listed Strategy as one of their interests or skills, since it was a strategy job. I then shared the vacancy, offered informal chats and...
...passing interest to civil servants. One of the 44 monuments is the little-known memorial to the 1,240 members of the Prince Of Wales Own Civil Service Rifles who fell in...
...Covid restrictions Like everyone else, the lockdown restrictions have presented me with some real challenges as well as opportunities to find new ways of achieving my goals. One thing I’ve...
...tourists following someone holding aloft a colourful something – usually an umbrella or, on one memorable occasion, a plastic flamingo. What they’re doing is ‘following the leader’ – and there...
Antonia Romeo, Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Trade I’m six months into my new role as Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Trade (DIT), and I’m proud...
...are out there fronting inclusion, leading impactful change. Our culture is one that facilitates and encourages difficult meaningful conversations, where everyone is heard, and can speak up without fear. Zero...
