Module 1 of the Future Leaders Scheme (FLS) — Understanding Your Leadership Role — The Future Leaders Scheme is one of the UK Civil Service’s Accelerated Development Schemes, aimed at high-potential grade 6 and 7 civil servants. You can read my candidate statement here and my early reflections here. This blog post is being written as part of my coursework for the Module 1…

Module 1 of the Future Leaders Scheme (FLS)—Understanding Your Leadership Role — The Future Leaders Scheme is one of the UK Civil Service’s Accelerated Development Schemes, aimed at high-potential grade 6 and 7 civil servants. You can read my candidate statement here and my early reflections here. This blog post is being written as part of my coursework for the Module 1…

There is always more to read… — Time to read more books Following in the footsteps of Mr Fables, over the course of 2022, I will be reading 31 books in the calendar year to mark my…

A personal reflection — Hello dear reader, There seems no better time to share this. It’s taken me several months to work out what I want to say, sitting with the discomfort and embracing something that had the ability to shift my thinking. Kay Badu’s story of their experiences in the Civil Service prompted…

Just say it. — The Future Leaders Scheme is one of the UK Civil Service’s Accelerated Development Schemes, aimed at high-potential grade 6 and 7 civil servants. You can read my candidate statement, part of my application, here. Note: This blog post was edited by Sam Villis. Sam — Thank you very much for…

Download, Listen, and Subscribe — A podcast featuring real conversations with awesome people doing interesting stuff in government and the public sector. Connecting passionate public sector reformists from around the world with inspirational content. Created by Kylie Havelock and Kamalah Brown, who have made 27 episodes covering interviews with public service leaders from around the…

I asked a question. Twitter responded. Loveliness ensued. — A list of all the things lovely people on Twitter recommended to read Videos Human Learning Systems — Public Service for the…

It’s the time of year when we look at what we are doing and think, is this right? And we ask ourselves, what should we do next? We need your suggestions and invite you to join. — What’s happened so far? “#OneTeamGov is the place where any and all can build their idea of the future. If we were a Lego set, #OneTeamGov would be the green baseplate. The pieces, the vision, the build — up to each and every one of us.”

Our collective responsibility and the possibilities to shift the power balance — by Thea Snow and Nour Sidawi It started where many good things do — with a tweet. This tweet led us to a place where something beautiful emerged that we…