Seizing the initiative

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Seizing the initiative

• Developing your career at a time of change

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Development

• New Chapters, Suffolks programme of
  organisational development
• Personal development

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New Chapters the context

• Organisational development. An ambitious council
• New director in Libraries Heritage with an
  interest in organisational change
• New staffing structure
• Framework for the Future, Start with the Child

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New Chapters

• Glossy brochure
• Unprecedented launch meeting

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New Chapters what the organisation wanted

• An attempt to summarise what we wanted to achieve
• Helps staff to understand the need to change
• Puts change in a corporate and national context
• Tries to make change sound interesting and
  exciting

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New Chapters what the staff were promised

• Performance development reviews
• Better communication
• Staff meetings
• Training
• Leadership training for all managers
• Encouragement to show initiative

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Personal development

• Taking things on but not unreasonable workloads
• Take on secondments, projects, committee work,
  exchanges
• Reply to consultations
• Look for personal growth as well as career
  prospects
• Be true to yourself, show integrity, no need to
  do something you hate

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Spotting trends national and corporate
priorities and values

• Communication skills
• Corporate identity (not department)
• Partnerships
• Customer service
• Regionalism
• E-government
• Diversity and inclusion
• Change and organisational development

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Prepare a case

• Show how the organisation will benefit
• Show how you will benefit
• Show any wider benefits

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Conclusion

• Be positive about change (and about everything)
• Be ever so slightly bold
• Keep your work/life balance
• Vincent McDonald
• vincent.mcdonald_at_libher.suffolkcc.gov.uk