Transcript Design Principles June 2009 - Local Government Chronicle

Buckinghamshire County Council
LGC Future Leaders Event
Planning to be a Director/CEO
Gillian Hibberd
Strategic Director (Resources and Business Transformation)
Buckinghamshire CC
[email protected]
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Contents
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My Role at Buckinghamshire
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Thinking Yourself into the Role
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Career Planning
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Preparing for Interviews
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Challenges of the Role
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My Role at Buckinghamshire
Senior Management Structure
Chris Williams
Chief Executive
Jane O’Grady
Director of Public Health (Joint
appointment with PCT)
Sue Imbriano
Strategic Director
C&YPS
Safeguarding - Vacancy
Prevention & Protection
Placements
Youth Offending Service
Youth Services
Commissioning &
Business Improvement –
Chris Munday
Commissioning
Business Improvement
Access & Inclusion
School Improvement
Vacancy
Strategic Director
Adults & Family Wellbeing
Service Provision - Vacancy
Older People’s Services
Physical, Sensory & Learning
Disability
Culture & Learning- Paula
Buck
Cultural Services/Libraries
Adult Learning
Registrars/Coroners
Commissioning & Service
Improvement – Trevor Boyd
Strategic Commissioning
Safeguarding
Performance
Sarah Ashmead
Service Director
(Policy, Performance &
Communications)
Neil Gibson
Strategic Director
Communities & Built
Environment
Place Services – John
Lamb
Transportation
Planning, Environment,
Development & Property
Localities & Safer
Communities – Phil Dart
Locality Services
Safer Communities
Trading Standards
Community Cohesion &
Equalities
Resilience Team
Drug and Alcohol Team
Voluntary & Community
Sector
Gillian Hibberd
Strategic Director
Human Resources Vacancy
Human Resources
Training & Development
Health & Safety
Legal & Democratic – Anne
Davies
Legal
Democratic Services
Finance & Commercial
Services – Richard Ambrose
Finance
Procurement
Customer Contact –
Amanda Brooke-Webb
Customer Services
Corporate Complaints
Service Transformation –
Nick Cave
Service Improvement
ICT
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Contents
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My Role at Buckinghamshire
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Thinking Yourself into the Role
3
Career Planning
4
Preparing for Interviews
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Challenges of the Role
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Thinking yourself into the role…..
• Understand differences
between Head of Service and
Director
• Able to articulate the different
levels of operation
• Be prepared to comment on
issues beyond your brief
• Operate corporately and
strategically
• Not necessarily the Head of
Profession!
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Commercial Skills Needed
• Understand and evaluate risks; and to take effective action plans to
mitigate them
• promote entrepreneurial approaches
• properly cost activities and the failure to undertake those activities
• evaluate options for service delivery from in-house to outsourcing to
setting up employee co-operatives
• understand need to create, develop and shape supply markets
• understand commissioning and procurement
• understand the mindset of commercial suppliers and manage
supplier relations
• ensure value for money
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Commercial Skills – How do you develop
them?
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Experience of working in the commercial sector
Network outside the public sector
Use commercial language
Understand the markets you are in keep abreast of
market trends
• Understand the needs and challenges of your
colleagues
• Understand the finances (corporately)!
• Innovate and apply commercial knowledge
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Contents
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My Role at Buckinghamshire
2
Thinking Yourself into the Role
3
Career Planning
4
Preparing for Interviews
5
Challenges of the Role
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Career Planning
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Have a Plan?
Enrich your experience
Put yourself forward for Corporate Projects
Feedback from peers, partners and colleagues
Network
Get yourself known – recruitment agencies
Move around
Don’t undersell yourself!
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My Role at Buckinghamshire
2
Thinking Yourself into the Role
3
Career Planning
4
Preparing for Interviews
5
Challenges of the Role
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Preparing for Interviews
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Internal vs External Candidate
Use your contacts
Think yourself into the role
Spend time with someone doing a similar job
Be succinct
Use the right language
Be confident and clear about what you can bring
Predict the questions
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Contents
1
My Role at Buckinghamshire
2
Thinking Yourself into the Role
3
Career Planning
4
Preparing for Interviews
5
Challenges of the Role
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Challenges of the Role
• Jack of all trades, master
of none
• Thinking on your feet
• Resilience
• Finding support
• Looking after yourself
• Authenticity
• Delivery
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Questions?
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