We are calling our strategy paper our ‘North Star’ paper* – the thing that will set out our intention as to where we want to be as an organisation. It’s a phrase used in a workshop which has really captured people as a way of expressing a direction and intention but still leaving space for …
I am something of a methodological magpie and I am trying to properly integrate a few different domains that I have been using to develop an approach to change. We will be working to change Dorset Council over the next few years and I want that to be a participatory experience where, within the constraints …
I’m really excited to see the shift in the Test, Learn and Grow work as Nick Kimber and the team put the focus on movement building. If we want to get beyond pilots and make test and learn ‘how we do things round here’ across the sector then its time to lean in and take …
I’m 4 months in post at Dorset Council and I’m coming out of the new girl haze with a real sense of purpose and clarity about what needs doing. Highly dangerous as clearly I still have a lot to learn about the place and the organisation but the world doesn’t wait for you to catch …
Warning! This is one of those more geeky think pieces as I’m trying to make sense of, and dreaming a bit, about three connected strands of thought: the importance of community power as a foundation for any kind of democratic or public service renewal the need to weave this into the narrative of public service …
I have been pitching an idea for a while now which almost always lands well and which I can’t leave alone, so I thought I would put it out more widely in the universe and see what happens…. I want to be part of an event which brings together a set of system actors from …
We are working hard now on how we take the detail of Our Plan and the next stages of our change work out to the members and wider organisation and we have circled back around to the why question – why exactly are we doing this? It’s a good question to which there are multiple …
Rather than running around our organisation saying ‘we need resilience’ over and over I want to unpack what I mean. I’m doing it here as a way of working and thinking in public – it helps me to develop my ideas and is part of the openness which I think of as a building block …
Even when we are way beyond school age summer feels like a time of transition and this summer more than ever. It seems both endless and goes in the blink of an eye. Time has been distorted by our year of pandemic and I am feeling that sense of summer transition more than ever. I …
Conversations with both Cassie Robinson and Noel Hatch have made me resolve to try and get back to my weekly blogging habit and do some proper week notes. These are going to be a bit of a shopping list I think to start with as I’m still all over the place both in terms of …