Catch up with the second in out #GettingStuffDone webinar series, where guests will focus on gripping and driving outcomes. Achieving outcomes must be integrated into the culture of delivery. Targets, measures and incentives are a powerful way of understanding, tracking and driving delivery performance. However, they need to be applied intelligently, based on what is needed in a place and in the context of existing systems, relationships and culture. There are pitfalls to av

Watch the first in our #GettingStuffDone webinar series and explore the power of relationships. Public services are a people business. This is true from top to bottom: the shaping force of democratic politics, the responsibility to all citizens, the care of vulnerable children and adults, and a workforce motivated by public service.  Relationships with and between colleagues, stakeholders, and partners are what make or break the delivery of programmes and projects. Ultimate

In this article, Andrew Laird argues that each level of government should have to justify why they aren’t passing power down to the next. It's a deliberately provocative title... of course it's not true for everything. But I'd love it if we started with that. I think it’s probably fair to say that every level of government over estimates its own importance and ability to effect positive change. There is a cultural reluctance to pass power, resources and responsibility to the