D&R Leaders

Outputs from a leadership group event called D&R Leaders, from Adur & Worthing Councils' Digital & Resources directorate.

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1. D&R LEADERS
2. Digital & Resources (D&R) is a directorate at Adur & Worthing Councils, led by Paul Brewer. Services include: Finance, Digital, Customer Services, Sustainability, Human Resources, Legal Services, Revenues & Benefits, Scrutiny & Overview
3. D&R Leaders is a new group of 34 leaders drawn from across our teams. In our first session, we developed our purpose statement and generated a set of thoughts, ideas, and lines of enquiry from which we will develop a 12 month map of activities and events.
4. We’ve been running regular all staff D&R Meetups for 18 months, helping everyone learn more about each other’s work and projects. 5 minute lightning talks are the most popular. People love to hear what others are doing.
5. The following purpose statement and all the suggestions in the subsequent slides were produced by the group themselves in D&R Leaders #1
6. We share challenges, knowledge and connections to build trust, break down barriers and innovate together
7. The suggestions that follow are grouped by the keywords from our purpose statement. We will now build a road map of activities for the next year The road map is forming here
8. Challenges • How can we work to change culture? • What are the patterns and trends in employment relations? • How can we make time to stand back, reflect and share? • How might we highlight common issues and resolutions? • How can we create a collaborative approach to service planning? • How could we really find out what other teams think of us? • Regular challenge time (the “chairs” exercise was great) • Trouble shooting sessions • Juicy challenges I can help with! • How to manage time and prioritise effectively
9. Knowledge • Learning more about the sustainability platform (strategic theme) • Updates on politics and partners • More on all the platforms • How does the directorate contribute to platforms? • Learn more about what teams do across the organisation • Customer insight sessions • Share knowledge on GDPR / RFI
10. Knowledge • Learning about Google and agreeing common practices • Bring interesting books and articles to share • How do teams use financial information, can they self-serve for RFI? • What’s coming up for HR in 2020? • I can help facilitate sessions • Invite people in to talk about leadership, development, innovation
11. Connections • Get to know people more • Years of experience, willing to share! • Meetup and share between sessions (self-organise) • Respect and confidentiality to help people share and support safely • Get advice and support as new in leadership role • Hear from those running large projects (experiences, lessons) • Working closer together and learning from each other • I’m good at listening!
12. Innovation • Making the HR/payroll system design the best it can be • Learning more about the digital programme and our platform • How can we use Google for smaller scale innovation? • Learn more about the Revs & Bens digital programme
13. It’s all a bit messy in reality. That’s how humans are. But collaboration done well amplifies our collective impact. We are more satisfied and more willing to contribute.