Some well deserved thank yous and congratulations

Are you a manager with a passion for developing staff? You may have seen this in a recent Managers Wire. I fully support and actively encourage our senior leaders to provide mentoring for our less experienced managers and recognise the enormous benefits that this can bring for both parties. As Ralph Nader said, “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders not more followers”. Our job is to grown and nurture leadership and management at all levels throughout our organisation. If you feel you can develop our leaders of tomorrow please apply to become a mentor.

The next mentor development session is taking place on Friday 19 May, from  9.00 am-1.00 pm in the Lacock room, County Hall. If you are interested in finding out more, and how to apply, details can be found here Mentoring Guidance for Mentors Mentoring Guidance for Mentors 124kb  or you can email amanda.collyer@wiltshire.gov.uk for further information.

Now for some well-deserved thank yous and congratulations.

HR & OD have been shortlisted for a number of external awards. The annual PPMA (Public Service People Managers Association) awards, which recognise excellence in people management, will take place in Bristol on 27 April during the PPMA annual conference, and the council’s team have been shortlisted as finalist in three of these awards. These are:

•       The role of HR in innovation
•       Transforming the working environment
•       Sustainable transformation

Many congratulations to Jo Pitt and her team for this achievement. They were up against some stiff national competition and have done extremely well to be shortlisted and I am sure you will all join me in wishing them the best of luck at the awards in April.

Registration Service - The Registration Service, led by Alison Manning underwent an audit conducted by the General Register Office for England and Wales from 16 to 24 March inclusive.  The final report has been received which states that the district has now achieved a high level of security around GRO certificate stock and registration records, this is a credit to all staff so very well done.

Award Winning Single View - The Council “Single View” programme, led by Ian Baker and Steve Vercella has just been awarded the National IESE (Improvement and Efficiency Social Enterprise) award for innovation (http://www.iese.org.uk/events/iese-awards-2017). Special thanks must also go to Paul Mills, Lisa McKeigue and Tamara Smith from the programme office for their contributions. The Single View Programme has been working to deliver information across organisational boundaries in the public sector to increase efficiency and decision making and improve outcomes for the public in Wiltshire. One of the early deliverables was the provision of care information to medical General Practitioners surgeries to improve the information they have on particular patients.

An important part of this programme was the technology to access and share the data which was developed by the Development Team within IT. Special thanks and congratulations go to Chris Sercombe, Chris Beavan and Samyukta Billakurthi from that team (and all others involved) for their valuable contribution to the programme.

Now back to the election…

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