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Celebrating excellence in operational delivery

Posted by: Operational Delivery Profession, Posted on: 24 March 2016 - Categories: Our Civil Service, Professions
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The Operational Delivery Profession celebrates all the nominees for the 2015 Dame Lesley Strathie Operational Excellence Award, underlining the sheer range of work they cover.

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Ten tips for leading organisational change

Posted by: Peter Vowles, Posted on: 18 March 2016 - Categories: Leadership Statement, Leading and managing change
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Pete Vowles passes on some of the practical lessons he's learned helping to lead a change programme at the Department for International Development.

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Apprentices who remind us why we do the job

Posted by: Mark Lowcock, Posted on: 17 March 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders

DFID Permanent Secretary Mark Lowcock reflects on what apprentices bring to the Civil Service.

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Civil servants in the 2016 New Year's Honours list

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 6 January 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, Our Civil Service
Medal of Commander of OBE

Jeremy Heywood congratulates the civil servants recognised in the New Year's Honours list.

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Christmas in Kabul

Posted by: Karen Pierce CMG and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 18 December 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service
The Christmas Tree in the Kabul Embassy

...as usual But other than these two days, it will be business as usual for the mission. We will be back at work by Sunday, 27 December, pushing forward work...

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Becoming a better civil service - the power of learning and collaboration

Posted by: Liz McKeown, Posted on: 15 December 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Stylised illustration showing a male figure on the rime of a prize cup against which he is holding up a ruler. Background of sky and clouds.

As UK representative on the OECD's Public Governance Committee, Liz McKeown has seen how learning from and collaborating with international partners can make us a more effective civil service.

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Campaigning home and abroad on equality issues

Posted by: Mark Lowcock and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 27 November 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
Graphic showing the problems girls have in developing countries

...Europe and North America suffer from violence. The Government, led by colleagues in the Home Office, has responded to this by embedding VAWG as ‘everyone’s business’ across agencies, professions and...

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The productivity challenge - and how we're meeting it

Posted by: Mark Lowcock, Posted on: 9 November 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, More digital
Operational Delivery Profession banner at CS Live 2015 London

Mark Lowcock looks at how the Civil Service is becoming more productive and improving services in ways that make a positive difference to people's lives.

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Stepping out of the shadows

Posted by: Mita Samani, Posted on: 8 October 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Photo of Sir Jeremy Heywood with members of the Shadow Board

The Shadow Civil Service Board was created below Senior Civil Service level to support the Civil Service Board. Mita Samani, a Shadow Board member from DFID, explains what's involved and how you can put forward your own "radical ideas".

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Reflections on the Nepal earthquake

Posted by: Beverley Warmington, Posted on: 20 August 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Aid workers unloading aid packages from helicopter in Nepal

Beverley Warmington, Asia Director for DFID, looks at the part the UK has played in bringing aid and recovery to Nepal since the April 2015 earthquake.

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