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    Leadership

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    Winners of diversity awards revealed
    10 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Winners of diversity awards revealed

    This year’s civil service Diversity and Equality Award winners have been named at a ceremony in Petty France today.


    Beyond the comfort zone: Mark Gibson, chief executive of the Whitehall and Industry Group
    06 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Beyond the comfort zone: Mark Gibson, chief executive of the Whitehall and Industry Group

    In our monthly feature focussing on people who have crossed organisational and sectoral boundaries, Mark Gibson talks about his move from the then-Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) to the Whitehall and Industry Group


    Manzoni made civil service CE as ‘Two Years On’ report maps out future reforms
    02 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Manzoni made civil service CE as ‘Two Years On’ report maps out future reforms

    John Manzoni, the chief executive of the Major Projects Authority, has been named as the new chief executive of the civil service.


    Lord Hennessy meets... Lord Richards
    01 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Lord Hennessy meets... Lord Richards

    Journalist and historian Peter Hennessy meets former chief of the defence staff General Sir David Richards to discuss Whitehall’s internal wars, and the need for truly strategic thinking in Whitehall


    Editorial: The experts tell us to listen carefully, move slowly
    30 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Editorial: The experts tell us to listen carefully, move slowly

    By chance, two service delivery heavyweights have shared a single message. Ministers and officials alike should listen up


    Interview: Lord Victor Adebowale
    29 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Interview: Lord Victor Adebowale

    Victor Adebowale may be a peer of the realm, but his ideas for public service reform – built on 30 years’ experience in housing and social care – challenge established thinking. Winnie Agbonlahor meets him


    Passport Office to be brought back into Home Office
    26 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Passport Office to be brought back into Home Office

    HM Passport Office will be abolished and its operations absorbed by the Home Office from 1 October, it has been announced today, and the organisation’s chief executive Paul Pugh will be replaced by a newly-appointed director general.


    Kerslake sets out ‘unfinished business’ in civil service reform
    26 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Kerslake sets out ‘unfinished business’ in civil service reform

    There is “unfinished business” in civil service reform, former head of the civil service Sir Bob Kerslake said yesterday – including devolving powers away from Whitehall, and breaking down departmental structures. 


    Opinion: Dave Penman, FDA
    25 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Opinion: Dave Penman, FDA

    Civil servants achieve so much for the public good, argues Dave Penman, but rarely get the praise they deserve: their leaders should sing their praises more loudly – even if it gets the critics irate


    Interview: Helen Edwards
    23 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Interview: Helen Edwards

    Helen Edwards left a career in frontline social work and charity management for a job on Whitehall; now she's the DCLG's deputy permanent secretary. She tells Matt Ross about pursuing change in service delivery, councils, and her own department. Photo by Mark Weeks


    Kerslake: Delay in diversity plan ‘biggest regret’
    22 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Kerslake: Delay in diversity plan ‘biggest regret’

    Former head of the civil service Sir Bob Kerslake has said his biggest regret is that the government didn’t publish a civil service diversity plan more quickly.


    Olly Robbins defends new Talent Action Plan
    19 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Olly Robbins defends new Talent Action Plan

    Oliver Robbins, director-general, civil service, has spoken out in defence of the government’s new Talent Action Plan – designed to promote diversity in the civil service – after a blog about its publication attracted 130 comments on the civil service website.


    Robin Ryde: Build Your Organisation
    19 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Robin Ryde: Build Your Organisation

    Leaders across the civil service are wrestling with change management. Here’s how to rise to the challenge


    Senior managers often ‘don’t know what’s going on’ with their departments’ contracts
    18 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Senior managers often ‘don’t know what’s going on’ with their departments’ contracts

    Senior civil servants often “don’t know what’s going on” with contracts held by their departments and thus spot problems too late, Joshua Reddaway, the National Audit Office’s director for commercial and contracting, has warned.


    Passport Office chief exec accused of ‘complete management failure’
    16 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Passport Office chief exec accused of ‘complete management failure’

    Paul Pugh, chief executive of the Passport Office, has been accused of a “complete management failure” by the Home Affairs Select Committee. In a report published today, the committee calls for the office to be abolished and its functions to be returned to the direct control of ministers.


    Beyond the comfort zone - Steve Douglas
    12 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Beyond the comfort zone - Steve Douglas

    A monthly interview with people who've crossed organisational and sectoral boundaries to join a new working world.


    Looking Across: Bharti Patel, ECPAT UK CEO
    12 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Looking Across: Bharti Patel, ECPAT UK CEO

    Perspectives from outside the civil service


    Build Your Organisation: Rob Haslam
    04 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Build Your Organisation: Rob Haslam

    Improving board performance would reduce staff turnover and cut the number of costly project failures.


    Excellence in delivery
    03 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Excellence in delivery

    Lord Browne of Madingley, Lead Non-Executive Director, HM Government offers and overview of the progress the civil service has seen in recent years.


    Interview: Chris Wormald
    03 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Interview: Chris Wormald

    Chris Wormald tells Winnie Agbonlahor how he's trying to raise the standard of policymaking across government - without imposing too much central control


    Feature: permanent secretaries' objectives
    02 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Feature: permanent secretaries' objectives

    The new set of published perm secs' objectives seem much improved, but are they really what they claim to be? Report by Samera Owusu Tutu. Illustration by John Levers.


    Opinion: Dave Penman, FDA
    27 Aug 2014 Leadership
    Opinion: Dave Penman, FDA

    Picking the right civil service CEO is important. But, FDA general secretary Dave Penman argues that any candidate will encounter the job's structural challenges.


    World Service: A perspective from the civil service of New Zealand
    27 Aug 2014 Leadership
    World Service: A perspective from the civil service of New Zealand

    Iain Rennie, state services commissioner at the New Zealand Government, tells Civil Service World about the strengths and weaknesses of his home civil service


    Build Your Skills
    22 Aug 2014 Leadership
    Build Your Skills

    The secret of great leadership lies not in management books, but in learning to identify and understand your emotions.


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