KPMG has estimated that the predicted 15-20% cuts in public service budgets is now working out in many organisations closer to 40-50% over the next 12-18 months. This development has raised the issue of making more severe cuts to the back office, without impacting front line services.
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By Colonel Bob Stewart.
Colonel Bob Stewart believes leading under pressure is as great a challenge as it can get, and he should know. Having served in Northern Ireland and Bosnia, where he was British battalion commander, he has faced life and death situations and the toughest decisions any leader can make.
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Many ex public sector employees are turning to freelance and contract work in the search for an alternative livelihood. Contrary to reports that point to the commercial sector’s reluctance to employ ‘ex-bureaucrats’, recruitment experts blame poor self belief as the key obstacle to new careers in enterprise.
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By Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler
In Empowered, Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler provide real-world examples of how innovative leaders, and their teams, use technology to solve customer problems. We call them HEROes — highly empowered and resourceful operatives. They’re people like John Bernier and Ben Hedrington at Best Buy, who built an army of 2,500 tweeting employees to reach out to customers online.
The Social Investment Fund has been boosted by an additional £10m to give staff the financial support they need to set up a mutal and bid for contracts for the delivery of services. The Fund has already helped support over 400 social enterprises to establish themselves and compete to provide services.
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This strategy from the Cabinet Office explains the role of the Big Society Bank as a cornerstone of the social investment market attracting more investment from wealthy individuals, charitable foundations and ultimately socially responsible everyday savers in
social ISAs and pension funds.
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A report from Senior Executive Head-hunters InterExec, reveals that 92% of head-hunters claim that public sector senior executives are harder to place compared to their private sector counter parts.
This follows the Office of Budget Responsibility’s forecast that 610,000 public sector jobs will be lost in the next six years as part of the Government’s austerity measures. Figures from Direct.gov.uk reveal that there is an estimated 170+ senior executives working in the public sector who currently earn over £150,000.
InterExec is the Confidential Agent that represents senior executives seeking positions earning over £200,000. The report conducted by InterExec, surveyed 100 of the UK’s top senior executive head-hunters across the UK.
Kit Scott-Brown, managing director of InterExec, commented: Public sector executives are currently facing challenges with securing the best job going forward and some will require more help than their private sector peer group. We are finding that former civil servants often require advice on how they can be best placed within the private sector, not as a result of their skills or abilities, but on how they access private sector employers.”
By Charlene Li
“Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic” are the current leadership mantras – but organisations often push back. Traditionally the concept of control predominates, but the new world order demands openness.
Read more on OPEN LEADERSHIP: HOW SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY CAN TRANSFORM THE WAY YOU LEAD…
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