Morning everybody and my apologies for not blogging for a couple of weeks. I had to take a bit of time off last week when my wife and youngest son decided on separate emergency admissions into the RUH at the same time! All fine now thank goodness.
This week has been busy and it was good to spend two full days at Monkton Park with Cabinet and meeting a lot of staff based there. It made me realise what a poor building County Hall is and how I’m looking forward to many of us moving into the new end of the building over the next six months or so. It will really help to break down some of the communication barriers that exist between teams because of the cellular design of the current building.
I met with three junior managers this week for separate coaching sessions; it is so important that we grow our next generation of senior managers and leaders for what is one of the toughest tasks around – leading people. We worked on the role of managers to lead the development of organisational vision, service strategy, operational management and tactical delivery – the four key elements to the role of management. I find this one of the most exciting parts of my job, and it was great to see one of our service directors this week sign up to the coaching course run by south west councils.
I have also spent some time this week with my finance colleagues developing the detail of how we will deliver our budget for the coming year 12-13 as well as starting to prepare for how we will develop an affordable budget for 13-14. This may sound early but I think fortune favours the prepared mind as Louis Pasteur once said.
This morning I’m meeting up with one of our councillors who wants to explore some innovative ideas that she has for her market town. It will be fun to work out ways to turn her ideas into reality quickly to enable her community to develop and grow with Wiltshire Council as an enabler.
Last meeting of the week is a Scrutiny Task Group review of the planning transformation programme. Always a feisty affair, but adds real value to our work in the council.
Then it’s a quick getaway to pick up my eldest son and his friends to celebrate his 17th birthday tonight (first driving lesson in the morning – I’m terrified!) and watch some F1 practice...
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Thanks for reading and we’ll talk again in a week or so.
Carlton
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Carlton Brand, Corporate Director Wiltshire Council
Dr Carlton Brand
Carlton Brand, Corporate Director Wiltshire Council
About me
Dr Carlton Brand has worked in local government since 2004 and joined Wiltshire County Council in 2007.
During Carlton’s time as Corporate Director at Wiltshire County Council he co-led the transition to the new unitary Wiltshire Council. As part of the ongoing transformation process he led on the implementation of an ambitious new business management programme utilising SAP to underpin the new organisation; the introduction of systems thinking (lean) to transform service performance for customers; and procurement reform amongst his many other corporate responsibilities. In the last couple of years he has developed a new organisation model for the council which is based on hubs and campuses, working with partners such as the Police around the community areas.
Carlton is passionate about developing future leaders and has led the development of a coaching and mentoring programme across the council in order to develop leaders and enable managers to share their skills and experience. Himself a fully accredited executive coach and leadership mentor, Carlton is a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.
Carlton enjoys engaging and sharing ideas with partner organisations and other councils through his activities with South West Councils, SOLACE (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives) ACCE (Association of Council Chief Executives) and CCN (County Councils Network) among others.
Prior to joining Wiltshire, Carlton was Corporate Director for Resources at St Edmundsbury Borough Council in Suffolk where he led on performance improvement through systems thinking and the efficiency/cost reduction agenda in response to the Gershon review, amongst others.
For the first twenty years of his career, Carlton worked for Ford Motor Company; first as a design engineer in product development and latterly as a senior manager leading large teams of engineers on the concept, design, development and launch into manufacturing of major new model programmes such as the Ford Focus. Carlton has worked widely across Europe, the USA and Japan in many Ford and supplier engineering and manufacturing facilities.
Married with two sons he enjoys all forms of motor sport, cricket, fishing and astronomy.
During Carlton’s time as Corporate Director at Wiltshire County Council he co-led the transition to the new unitary Wiltshire Council. As part of the ongoing transformation process he led on the implementation of an ambitious new business management programme utilising SAP to underpin the new organisation; the introduction of systems thinking (lean) to transform service performance for customers; and procurement reform amongst his many other corporate responsibilities. In the last couple of years he has developed a new organisation model for the council which is based on hubs and campuses, working with partners such as the Police around the community areas.
Carlton is passionate about developing future leaders and has led the development of a coaching and mentoring programme across the council in order to develop leaders and enable managers to share their skills and experience. Himself a fully accredited executive coach and leadership mentor, Carlton is a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.
Carlton enjoys engaging and sharing ideas with partner organisations and other councils through his activities with South West Councils, SOLACE (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives) ACCE (Association of Council Chief Executives) and CCN (County Councils Network) among others.
Prior to joining Wiltshire, Carlton was Corporate Director for Resources at St Edmundsbury Borough Council in Suffolk where he led on performance improvement through systems thinking and the efficiency/cost reduction agenda in response to the Gershon review, amongst others.
For the first twenty years of his career, Carlton worked for Ford Motor Company; first as a design engineer in product development and latterly as a senior manager leading large teams of engineers on the concept, design, development and launch into manufacturing of major new model programmes such as the Ford Focus. Carlton has worked widely across Europe, the USA and Japan in many Ford and supplier engineering and manufacturing facilities.
Married with two sons he enjoys all forms of motor sport, cricket, fishing and astronomy.
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