Building Capacity

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• Building Capacity
• Jill Minne, Acting Head of HR,
• Belfast City Council

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The challengesbuilding capacity for what ?

• Transition
• Post May 2011
• Local level
• Sector level

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Transition priorities

• Transition committees
• Transition management teams and change management
  officers
• Capacity mapping exercise
• Political leadership
• Managerial leadership
• Local government workforce

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Post May 2011 priorities

• Alignment of capacity building approach with
  organisational development approach
• NI local government workforce strategy
• Member development charter
• Leadership framework
• Joint member-officer development

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Issues

• Implementation
• Resources
• Roles and responsibilities

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Example Belfast City Council Workforce
Development Plan

• Improvement plan
• Ambitious corporate plan
• HR/OD strategy
• Workforce development plan
• Industrial relations framework
• People Panel

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Strategic HR management framework
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Workforce Development Plan themes

• Recruitment and retention
• Leadership development
• Skills development
• Organisational development
• Pay and rewards

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Workforce Development Plan year one actions

• Absence management
• Revised individual performance management scheme
  for chief officers
• Development of processes for effective workforce
  planning
• Development of a revised competency framework

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Year one actions (contd)

• Development of a corporate approach to personal
  development planning
• Planning for the HR implications for the
  implementation aspects of RPA
• Design and delivery of development activities for
  elected members and senior managers

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Next steps

• Review HR/OD strategy
• Develop year two of the Workforce Development
  Plan
• Alignment to other BCC strategies i.e. Customer
  Focus, Communication,and Information

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Questions?

• Contact details for further information
• Jill Minne/Lisa McDermott 028 90 270452
• minnej_at_belfastcity.gov.uk
• mcdermottl_at_belfastcity.gov.uk