A very short blog this week – my apologies.
Can I ask you all to please volunteer to help us out with the Olympic torch events on July 11 and 12 at Hudson’s field in Salisbury and the surrounding towns and villages. We need more marshals and others to help ensure these events run smoothly for our communities and are a real celebration in the county. They also offer us a great opportunity to further develop our culture and team working together and have some real fun! Thanks in advance.
For daily updates, discussion, personal opinion, comment or just to connect or keep in touch you can follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/drcarltonbrand.
Thanks for reading. Talk again in a week or so.
Carlton
Friday, 29 June 2012
Friday, 22 June 2012
Friday 22 June 2012
First off my apologies for not blogging for three weeks. I had a week away on holiday, a wedding and then came back and it’s been somewhat full on ever since! Normal service will be resumed from today.
It’s been an exciting week this week. Cabinet on Tuesday in Devizes reviewed a number of important papers including the Business Plan outcomes. Of over 100 targets that we set ourselves, 95% were green and being met which is a great achievement. Thank you to all our staff. We continue to work on the others to ensure we deliver for our communities. The press of course focused entirely on the 5%, which is expected. Unbelievably frustrating though after we spend so much effort delivering for Wiltshire.
I had the pleasure of meeting the newly announced Bishop of Ramsey later in the day. It was a good opportunity to welcome him to the county as well as to speak with partners from across the patch. It always surprises me how much business you can do in an hour when everybody is in one room!
On Wednesday I attended the development services team transformation morning in the Civic Centre. The team are really starting to deliver their transformation programme including a full systems review, culture change, new single IT system, management and team development, move into county hall and most importantly designing the service around our many different customers. Feedback from staff and customers continues to build in the team which is great to see. It was an energising session. Another unscripted Q&A which I always enjoy too.
Straight after this I attended the recruitment event for our new graduate trainee. There were five candidates who went through a full day of interviews, presentations, etc. It’s always so good to meet and speak with the next generation of local government officers before they start their careers.
The three corporate directors had a quick visit to the redeveloped part of County Hall. I have to say it looks and feels fantastic. We all start to move in towards the end of August. It is going to be a huge improvement for our customers, elected members and staff. The team and contractors have done a great job delivering this with such high quality, on time and under budget (again). Well done the property and transformation teams.
I shall be meeting up with the passenger transport team in Shurnhold this afternoon to spend a couple of hours going through progress on their systems thinking review of the service. This is always a great opportunity to learn how we work, why we work like that and how we can jointly improve the services for our customers.
For daily updates, discussion, personal opinion, comment or just to connect or keep in touch you can follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/drcarltonbrand.
Thanks for reading. Talk again in a week or so.
Carlton
It’s been an exciting week this week. Cabinet on Tuesday in Devizes reviewed a number of important papers including the Business Plan outcomes. Of over 100 targets that we set ourselves, 95% were green and being met which is a great achievement. Thank you to all our staff. We continue to work on the others to ensure we deliver for our communities. The press of course focused entirely on the 5%, which is expected. Unbelievably frustrating though after we spend so much effort delivering for Wiltshire.
I had the pleasure of meeting the newly announced Bishop of Ramsey later in the day. It was a good opportunity to welcome him to the county as well as to speak with partners from across the patch. It always surprises me how much business you can do in an hour when everybody is in one room!
On Wednesday I attended the development services team transformation morning in the Civic Centre. The team are really starting to deliver their transformation programme including a full systems review, culture change, new single IT system, management and team development, move into county hall and most importantly designing the service around our many different customers. Feedback from staff and customers continues to build in the team which is great to see. It was an energising session. Another unscripted Q&A which I always enjoy too.
Straight after this I attended the recruitment event for our new graduate trainee. There were five candidates who went through a full day of interviews, presentations, etc. It’s always so good to meet and speak with the next generation of local government officers before they start their careers.
The three corporate directors had a quick visit to the redeveloped part of County Hall. I have to say it looks and feels fantastic. We all start to move in towards the end of August. It is going to be a huge improvement for our customers, elected members and staff. The team and contractors have done a great job delivering this with such high quality, on time and under budget (again). Well done the property and transformation teams.
I shall be meeting up with the passenger transport team in Shurnhold this afternoon to spend a couple of hours going through progress on their systems thinking review of the service. This is always a great opportunity to learn how we work, why we work like that and how we can jointly improve the services for our customers.
For daily updates, discussion, personal opinion, comment or just to connect or keep in touch you can follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/drcarltonbrand.
Thanks for reading. Talk again in a week or so.
Carlton
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