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To build you must first demolish
If you cut the budget by 50 percent over five years then you are no longer looking at making savings in services you are talking about re building something smaller, more economical and in the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Nov 2013
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Do managers lack compassion?
Public sector senior managers have been accused of being obsessed with hitting performance targets and making budget savings indifferent to the impact on people. So do public sector managers lack...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Nov 2013
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Don't just blame the tech, ask yourself did you get the purpose right?
I've seen roll outs of different technology including SharePoint , Microsoft Office , CRM, Clarity Project Management etc, etc.   And you always hear the same comments, I don't like it,...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:  31 Oct 2013
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Man management is a funny old game
Sir Alex Ferguson confirms in his new book that former prime minister Tony Blair asked him “what you would do if your best player wouldn’t do what you wanted him to”. Ferguson answered “get rid...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  30 Oct 2013
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#OurDay 2013 highlights
Thank you to everyone who made #OurDay 2013 a huge success. It was great to see lots of people and organisations taking part and helping to showcase the broad range of services local...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  29 Oct 2013
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Educating Yorkshire
What's it like to be a teacher in today's state schools? What's it like to be a pupil in 2013? We all went to school and many of us are parents of school children so we all think we know...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  28 Oct 2013
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Department for Transport, English Road Safety Comparison profiles
Interventions to reduce road traffic collisions and casualties should be considered alongside other health improvement activity, such as increasing physical activity, reducing obesity through...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  23 Oct 2013
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'What about YOUth?' survey of 15 year olds reporting at LA geography
Sponsored by the Department of Health, and run by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) the “What about YOUth?” survey will address a range of factors, such as smoking, emotional...
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Philippa Lynch
Last updated:  24 Oct 2013
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Boosting the profile of Scrutiny
Scrutiny is not the most ‘sexy’ subject even in local Government; it comes with all types of stigmas and perceptions.  One of my appraisal targets is to boost the profile of our local...
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Stacy Cosham
Last updated:  21 Oct 2013
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Our #OurDay favourites!
#OurDay 2013 was a great success with 3,500 contributors, nearly 11,000 tweets and an amazing reach of 3 million. All across the land councils took to Twitter to tell the local government story....
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  18 Oct 2013
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Mothers coming to stay
Policy clarification on health secretary’s speech on care of elderly relatives (18/10/2013). James Hunt the health service minister surprised his audience today by appearing to announce a new...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Oct 2013
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#Ourday 2013 Infographic
Look out for more reflection on #ourday very soon To download a larger pdf version please use this link
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  18 Oct 2013
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Always look on the bright side
Is there a law that says if you’re a senior manager you must always look on the bright side? You would have thought even the most optimistic of those working in health and social care would have...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  17 Oct 2013
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Exit PAs from LAs
Just when Local Authorities are dispensing with PAs the private sector is reinventing the post. Now that managers have lap tops and tablets typing is no longer women's work (Hold my calls, Mr...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Oct 2013
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Find out why the Knowledge Hub is buzzing
It’s great to see such a lot going on in Knowledge Hub at the moment – it’s a real hive of activity. Here’s what happened in September…   15 new groups created on a whole range of...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  11 Oct 2013
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Birthday lunch with the chief executive
Happy Birthday. It’s not everyone who gets to celebrate their birthday with the chief executive.  Well actually it is if you work in a particular audit section of the civil service....
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  11 Oct 2013
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Don't "unnecessarily" annoy the customer
The man who said customer care didn’t matter has had a change of heart. That is if you count a typically dismissive response to a customer survey and a sop to share holders concerns as a change...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  08 Oct 2013
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Gagging for it
The use of gagging clauses in the public sector goes against everything it stands for  There are a lot of unhappy people in the public sector. A lot of managers are doing things they...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  04 Oct 2013
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A warm welcome in Wiltshire
It’s not often you go to place and feel a sense of wellbeing and community spirit the moment you enter the building, but that is exactly how I felt a couple of weeks ago when I was privileged...
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Liz Copeland
Last updated:  02 Oct 2013
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Stricly come Whitehall
New report out by Open University on relationship between politicians and senior public sector managers makes comparison with ice dancing duo, a delicate mutually dependant partnership and...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  04 Oct 2013
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