The public service should provide training to new members of parliament, ministers and their staff, in the view of senior Commonwealth secretary Martin Parkinson. He also thinks his colleagues should put the spotlight on the cost of restructuring. Read More
Commonwealth senior executives are facing increasingly complex challenges and governments need to stay adaptive. As such, the demand for fresh approaches and solutions has skyrocketed. Read More
The Department of Finance has begun shopping around for a partner-organisation to deliver an eight-week program of “transformative change” guided by a recent internal review. Read More
The Commonwealth's departmental heads have been increasingly drawn to the transformation of the Australian Public Service: what it should be, where it should go, and how best to get there. Read More
The pressure on public sector leaders to adapt rapidly to challenges of managing a far more diverse and distributed workforce is greater than ever. Now agency heads from across Australia heads are coming together to thrash out what cuts it and what doesn't in a swiftly modernising government. Read More
"If people aren’t complaining, they’re not changing," says City of Casey strategic director Sally Curtain. Shield implementers from the naysayers and focus on demonstrating results. Read More
Australian Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd expounded on six key areas of concern for the APSC in a speech this week: jobs of the future, flexible work, integrity, organisational culture, social media and performance management. Read More
Researchers are looking for public sector participants to be involved in a study into differing purposes and arrangements of MoG changes in Australia. They want to identify the factors that enable and impeded implementation, and learn how it can be done more effectively. Read More
There is no more basic issue than one’s livelihood and the skills required to sustain it. That is why innovation and agility are important, no matter where you work. Drawing on Fairfax's crisis, PlanDo founder Anne Moore explores how leaders need to transform to stay relevant. Read More
Digital government services are nowhere near the biggest customer service challenges around, says the founder of the UK's GDS. Digital government services should be as easy as running a dating site. Read More
Most employees scoff at talk of growing an innovation culture, and everyone resists change. Professor Deborah Blackman advises leaders to set clear goals, explain the benefits and give staff practical ways to contribute. Read More
