modelling leadership from the inside

The Scott Wilson Study highlighted a need for greater consistency in the management of the European Structural Funds by the nine autonomous regional Government Offices.

The challenges were practical :

	how to implement a single consistent approach across nine very autonomous offices?
	and, with each Office successfully meeting objectives, how to create both the incentive and the structure for staff to change their existing practice, and divert internal resource to create a new training programme?

Our story

With no authority over the end product - or guarantee of acceptance, our success in meeting the Government Offices’ needs depended entirely on our ability to model our own understanding of leadership - creating a vision to co-opt, unite and inspire GO staff.

The benefits of our work have been multi-tiered : our clients at GO have a comprehensive training programme which absolutely meets their needs, GO staff have benefited from skill transfer from Faraday ; communication channels are in place to share best practice and experience ; and GO staff across all the network have experienced a heightened sense of teamwork and collaboration.

CLG, our funding client, on the other hand, has been seen to support GO without being directive, entirely in alignment with its own principles : working with what really happens and what people really need.