A series of six one-hour seminars running in the morning and afternoon of the event will allow delegates to understand complex areas of specific interest. The sessions will then open up into an interactive discussion on the key issues raised, giving you the chance to contribute to the debate as well as be updated on hot topics of the day. Seminar session topics that will be covered are as follows:
Looking for simple but effective ways to maintain staff morale, and to realise their full potential in the current public sector climate of uncertainly, doing more for less, and finding efficiencies? If this is the case, our highly interactive seminar will introduce you to some practical ways and tools to maximise performance and help staff focus on what is working rather than grow demotivated by what is not. It will also give you an insight into why the same staff can have good and bad performance days.
Speaker/Chair:
Shaun Lincoln
Assistant Director of Leadership & Management, LSN
Among the significant challenges facing your teams is the expectation that your leaders and managers can achieve more with less. They can do so—but only if the process and structural changes you initiate and implement are aligned with and reinforce constructive norms and behaviours. To support you in redirecting the culture of your organisation, we will present:
• A framework for assessing its current culture and comparing it to the culture deemed to be ideal by members;
• Results of our research on government agencies showing the impact of constructive versus defensive cultures on effectiveness; and
• Leadership development strategies, human resource initiatives, and other levers for changing the culture of your organization, enhancing its adaptability, and increasing the engagement of members.
Speakers:
Dr. Robert A Cooke
CEO and Director of Human Synergistics International
Helen Corlett
Managing Director of HS/UK Ltd
Research from the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) highlighted widespread concern among public sector managers that budget cuts will cripple frontline services, as well as damaging staff health and morale.
The survey of 1,554 public sector managers revealed that over two-thirds believe their teams are operating at full capacity with little or no room for efficiency savings. They worry that blanket cuts to public sector budgets will leave them unable to deliver frontline services. Despite this, the research showed a cadre of committed and talented managers who are up for the challenge of leading their teams and organisations through what will be a difficult time. ILM will explore the unique skills and motivations of public sector managers – and how they can best negotiate their way through the government cuts.
Chair
David Pardey, Research and Policy Manager, ILM
This workshop will demonstrate how working with the Council of Civil Service Unions (including PCS, Prospect and FDA) on learning and skills can bring benefits for your staff, service users and organisation.
Objectives
By attending this workshop you will:
Understand better how the civil service trade unions encourage their members to participate in learning and skills development
See how the civil service trade unions work with employers and sector skills councils to promote learning and skills. This will cover areas such as the role of union learning representatives (ULRs), the Leitch Employer Pledge, skills for life, apprenticeships, Professional Skills for Government and skills strategies
Understand the benefits of working with the trade unions on learning and skills
Speakers
Kim Burridge (Chair)
Director, Organising, Legal and Education
Public & Commercial Services Union
David McEvoy
National Learning Officer
Public & Commercial Services Union
Sue Ferns
Head of Research & Specialist Services
Prospect
Emma Garnett
Justice Sector Lead, Learning & Skills
FDA
Get a FREE copy of Rob Worth's new book, 'Beat the Cuts' and learn how you can save services in the face of huge budget cuts.
Government are asking for massive cuts this year. Unless we act fast services will simply be slashed. This doesn't have to happen.
This seminar will tell you how services can not only be maintained but, in fact, improved while still giving the cuts in budget required.
Most services are getting 50+% failure demand and less than 10% of steps in service delivery processes are adding value. So if we can cut demand on a service by 50% and cut process steps by 90%, then 25% - 40% cuts no longer seems so hard. We make those changes by looking at how to make service better.
At this seminar you will learn:
- How to define the purpose of the service.
- How to identify what is of value to your service user.
- What to study first in your service to have the biggest
impact quickly.
- How to easily map processes to eliminate waste.
- How to bring teams together to work across services and
the public sector.
- What improvement actions are effective and which are not.
- An easy to implement problem solving structure.
- What the new roles of staff and management will look like.
- How to sustain the improvement in the long term.
- How to make the cuts needed while improving service.
In addition, attendees to the session will have the opportunity to get a free launch week copy of the brand new book by Rob Worth, 'Beat the Cuts: How to improve Services and Cut Costs in the Public Sector'.
Speakers:
Rob Worth
Worth Solutions
The public sector is under increasing pressure to deliver more with less. The objectives of our interactive seminar is to share how the innovative Rialto Transforming the Performance Culture model applies unique IP to strengthen the capability of the workforce to deliver future results in an ever changing landscape and secure a step change in performance, without triggering traditional redundancy (or the trauma / costs it creates). TPC increases the realignment of the right people being more engaged with the future organisation and the right people moving on.
Hear and discuss with a panel of HR Directors who are implementing the innovative TPC framework, on how TPC creates new conditions for the new workforce needs.
Topics include:
• How to implement innovative organisational / talent profiling techniques ensuring that the right people are engaged and performing in the right roles.
• Increasing engagement and greater productivity during change.
• Improving the alignment of employees to deliver future organisational productivity and develop effective budgetary spend.
• How TPC can improve Human capital ROI by refreshing teams with new skills/Revitalising leadership teams enabling managers to take greater ownership and drive step changes in performance through the organisation.
Speaker/Chair
Richard Chiumento, Director, Rialto.
© GovNet Events 2010
