Around the globe\, civil service leaders re cognise that leadership styles must change.
\n\nTraditional approach es to civil service leadership have encouraged a hierarchical\, top-down m anagement style. They’ve focused on vertical accountabilities\, rather tha n looking outwards to other departments and into the community. They’ve pr ioritised policymaking and ‘generalist’ management skills over specialist professional expertise. And they’ve expected civil servants to make key de cisions internally\, drawing on formal consultation processes\, rather tha n involving key stakeholders and the wider public directly in developing n ew policies and services.
\n\nBut in the modern world\, this approac h is no longer effective.
\n\nThe economic\, social and environmenta l problems faced by governments demand close partnership working by offici als\, reaching across departmental boundaries. The new tools available to civil servants – notably digital technologies and ‘big data’ – require col laborative\, iterative approaches to project development that sit awkwardl y with established processes. The innovation necessary to adapt to an ever faster-moving environment calls for both fresh approaches to risk\, and n ew forms of public engagement. And these days\, talented employees want th e autonomy and authority to make a real difference in their working lives: to get results\, leaders must empower rather than direct them.
\n\nSo civil service leaders are developing new approaches to management\, wor king towards a more connected\, collaborative and innovative civil service . This event will identify the personal characteristics\, working methods and management styles that civil service leaders will require for the futu re – and explore how they can be developed.
\n\nThe Forum is free to all civil service managers\, from across the region.
BEGIN:VALARM UID:39323063-3064-4162-b133-336633643336 ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Around the globe\, civil service leaders recognise that leaders hip styles must change.\n\nTraditional approaches to civil service leaders hip have encouraged a hierarchical\, top-down management style. They’ve fo cused on vertical accountabilities\, rather than looking outwards to other departments and into the community. They’ve prioritised policymaking and ‘generalist’ management skills over specialist professional expertise. And they’ve expected civil servants to make key decisions internally\, drawin g on formal consultation processes\, rather than involving key stakeholder s and the wider public directly in developing new policies and services.\n \nBut in the modern world\, this approach is no longer effective.\n\nThe e conomic\, social and environmental problems faced by governments demand cl ose partnership working by officials\, reaching across departmental bounda ries. The new tools available to civil servants – notably digital technolo gies and ‘big data’ – require collaborative\, iterative approaches to proj ect development that sit awkwardly with established processes. The innovat ion necessary to adapt to an ever faster-moving environment calls for both fresh approaches to risk\, and new forms of public engagement. And these days\, talented employees want the autonomy and authority to make a real d ifference in their working lives: to get results\, leaders must empower ra ther than direct them.\n\nSo civil service leaders are developing new appr oaches to management\, working towards a more connected\, collaborative an d innovative civil service. This event will identify the personal characte ristics\, working methods and management styles that civil service leaders will require for the future – and explore how they can be developed.\n\nT he Forum is free to all civil service managers\, from across the region. TRIGGER:-PT15M END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR