Local Government

Every week includes a mix of successes and frustrations. Most weeks I write more about the positive side of things but this week felt harder than normal - probably because of things going on outside work. I don’t want to carry the frustrations around with me as that doesn’t do any good. Instead I am going to leave them behind in this weeknote.

It feels like there is too much for one weeknote this time. Perhaps I need to prioritise but I find all these things fascinating. I keep nudging our teams to focus rather than have lots of things going on in parallel. Maybe I should take some of my own advice! Anyway here goes.

I’m back from a couple of weeks leave (it was amazing, thanks for asking), cleared the usual backlog of messages and got stuck into the projects I am supporting.

On effective teams, effective programme boards and effective public services

On shared provocations, developing agile leaders and anti-racism policies.

On visiting an office, audits and virtual training.

On interim roles, trade-offs and looking outside my “woke” filter bubble.

On new starters, public sector sharing and race equality in Cornwall.

On apprenticeships, testing and some large and small achievements.

On growing our team, cost of delay and a book you must read.