Leadership: the duck stops here
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...used it in practice. There's a lot of work for us to do to make sure they are comfortable working with BIM in the way we want them to. One...
...great leader, to helping departments improve their leadership capability now that everyone has had their say. And, of course, publishing the Leadership Statement itself. In this blog, I’ll round up...
...of your job sharing partnership. It is important that everyone feels that communicating with one partner is the same as communicating to both. Ideas for maintaining good communication use a...
...better at than me, start focusing on the things I’m naturally good at, really deploy those strengths to the max, and get my team to help fill the gaps, which...
...project right. A uniquely challenging environment I have been reflecting on the differences and the similarities between government and my previous working environment. It’s perhaps easier to spot the differences:...
...Service is one of the most important institutions in our society. So it matters that we do our job superbly and that the way we do it is founded on...