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Social media, digital inclusion ... winds of change ....
With just over two weeks to go until the LGA's Annual Conference in Birmingham, things are getting mighty busy in the communications department here. Last year we experimented with...
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Sarah Jennings
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08 Jun 2012
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A provocative appiontment
Naming a civilian as the Governments preferred candidate for the post of Chief Inspector is provocative. After all he has already had the police marching through the streets of London in...
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Blair McPherson
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08 Jun 2012
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UnCivil Servants
It’s nothing to do with pensions or pay freezes we just think our colleagues are incompetent, appointed for their political affiliations not their ability and our ministers are blinkered...
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Blair McPherson
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07 Jun 2012
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The numbers are what counts
The officer was making a presentation on the performance in the third quarter. The chair interrupter with a series of rhetorical questions which highlighted an area where performance had...
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Blair McPherson
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06 Jun 2012
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Truth, Trust and Twitter
It was great to see social media high on the agenda for day one of this year’s LGCommunications conference in Birmingham, which I attended on Tuesday. Indeed the first publication I picked up...
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Liz Copeland
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31 May 2012
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Call yourself a manager
Management covers a range of activities, managing budgets, managing information, managing buildings and equipment. But you are not a proper manager unless you manage people. People are...
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Blair McPherson
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28 May 2012
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Commissioning - what PCCs will need to know
Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the ACPO Conference, in a session entitled "Making Sense of Commissioning" on the PCC day of the event. Given the close links with...
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Chris Williams
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29 May 2012
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Hire and Misfire
I would have sacked a lot more people if I could have got away with it. If this government has its way then in the future managers will be able to fire at will. Under a raft of proposals...
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Blair McPherson
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24 May 2012
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Chillaxing
Chillaxing is a new word combining chilling as in chill out and relaxing. It is being used in relation to leadership to describe someone who doesn’t let work issues worry them unduely and finds...
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Blair McPherson
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22 May 2012
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The Human Factor in PM
Reading research on HCC's PM approach. Implication for successful outcomes result from choice of project manager! So in your organisation do you look for people who understand power...
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Roger Barrett
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22 May 2012
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e-learning for PM
New e-learning package launched internally to support PM skillset and ensure those benefits get delivered! If interest is sparked please get in contact.
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Roger Barrett
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22 May 2012
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The fall of Rome
The opening scene of the film The Fall of the Roman Empire pans steeply up to the top of a high viaduct. Along the top, lined up shoulder to shoulder, on the very edge looking down at...
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Blair McPherson
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21 May 2012
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Are you a knower?
I have written a guest blog for Progression Partnership and it is available here http://www.progressionpartnership.com/are-you-a-knower
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Paul Summers
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21 May 2012
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PCCs - the big question for CSPs!
In this age of austerity, the question on the lips of many partnerships is - "What will happen to our money next year?" Places have been used to having percentage reductions in grant funding...
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Chris Williams
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18 May 2012
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The numbers can't hear you
The officer was making a presentation on the performance in the third quarter. The chair interrupter with a series of rhetorical questions which highlighted an area where performance had...
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Blair McPherson
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16 May 2012
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Bounce- back ability
I don’t recommend getting the sack as a way to advance your career. But if you have never failed, never been out of step with colleagues and never refused to compromise then you probably...
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Blair McPherson
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11 May 2012
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The Knowledge and Information Management for the Public Sector Group needs you!
The Knowledge and Information Management for the Public Sector otherwise knows as (KIMPs) has always been more of a knowledge stewarding community. With it’s large collection of...
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Michael Norton
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10 May 2012
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Why don't we do what works?
In her new book “Delivering public services that work” Charlotte Dell gives case example after case example of public sector organisations that have found a better way of doing...
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Blair McPherson
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10 May 2012
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It’s not all over for the sweet toothed web - Cookies and Privacy
Today I attended one of DCLG’s Local Direct Gov ‘Really Useful’ sessions on Cookies and Privacy. This was to discuss the consensus approach to the forthcoming EU Electronics Communications...
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Michael MacAuley
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28 May 2012
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Plugging the gaps
In a recent survey of 50 local authorities by the RCA a third reported achieving budget savings by cutting a little from every budget where as the majority were cutting costs by setting up...
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Blair McPherson
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07 May 2012
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Ever wondered how much the BBC pay for Recruitment Advertising?
Here's a link to a PDF of a FOI request made for that exact information for the periods 2007, 2008 and 2009. http://alexkavel.s3.amazonaws.com/BBC_spend_on_recruitment_advertising.pdf
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Douglas Shirlaw
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27 Apr 2012
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myjobscotland - Android App now available
Further to the preview of the new Android App at the last SuperUser day in March, the app finally went live on the Google Play store yesterday. Using the same functionality as the...
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Douglas Shirlaw
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27 Apr 2012
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How far should a local authority go to get what it's owed?
Not everyone pays their bills. A local authority has a duty to ensure public money is properly managed and this means chasseing up those who don’t pay their council tax, their rent or...
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Blair McPherson
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03 May 2012
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Involving people to get their input to groups and partnerships
A familiar, difficult and critical issue came up at our Healthwatch development group recently. Basically: 'it's great having all you people round the table – we've accepted any offers...
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Adrian Barker
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24 Apr 2012
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New stuff to play with
Well it seems only a blink of an eye since I wrote the last post but so much has happened. There's been lots of social and messaging functions added to the platform and we finally delivered...
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Michael MacAuley
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24 Apr 2012
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Headhunters,Beauty parades and Trial by Sherry
My personal experience is that the process of filling senior management posts is complex and drawn out over several days. Is this the best way to get the right person for the top...
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Blair McPherson
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25 Apr 2012
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Does transparency of data need comparability?
The National Audit Office have released today a report on data transparency. I think they have slightly misunderstood the nature of transparency when it comes to discuss local government (see...
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Neil Wholey
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19 Apr 2012
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Updated Local Councils' Innovation Framework available now
A new version of the Local Council’s Innovation Framework is now available. It has been updated in response to the sector consultation. Chief executives, or other senior managers, can use the...
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Joan Munro
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15 Apr 2013
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Relax don't do it
Relaxed about the budget, relaxed about the restructuring, relaxed about the prospects of the service being outsourced we may have got it wrong about all those stressed-out public sector...
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Blair McPherson
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25 Apr 2012
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The only reward for hard work is more work
When you read that statement did you think, yes, the more I do the more they give me to do? As a manager it is very tempting to pile on the work to someone you know will do a good job as...
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Blair McPherson
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16 Apr 2012
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