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How the MOD is creating Psychologically Safe environments to enable project success

Three soldiers on a dark beach

Evidence shows psychologically safe teams are more productive, innovative, and better at exposing and managing risk. Psychological Safety is a key enabler in building an innovative culture, high-performing teams, and promotes testing new ideas, whether they are successful or not. …

Meet the Modern Civil Service: Ravi Chand

Ravi Chand, Director of Places for Growth

Hello! Welcome to the second interview in the Meet the Modern Civil Service series. The aim of this series is to showcase the people in the civil service who are innovating change, whether that be through being a learning champion, …

Project Simplify: Keeping it simple

Project Simplify supports an Innovative Civil Service which is focused on rewarding and encouraging our staff to find innovative solutions to problems in order to deliver better outcomes for the public. Since the Machinery of Government change to create the …

The '1 Atlantic Square Model' to building an inclusive office community

The Glasgow HQ building

A guest blog from the Glasgow Community Management team. Building and nurturing a thriving, inclusive community in offices, campuses and hubs across the UK is an essential part of attracting and retaining local talent, while creating an inspiring and collaborative …

Building an Innovative Civil Service

Civil servants at the One Big Conference on data in November 2023

  A Modern Civil Service is our vision of a skilled, innovative and ambitious organisation equipped for the future. We've discussed what we mean by 'skilled', but what do we mean by 'innovative'?" Innovation has a wide range of applications, …

Skilled: ODP Fest 2023 - A Celebration of Learning

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The Operational Delivery Profession (ODP) is the largest of the 28 government professions, making up over half of the Civil Service. More than 255,000 members work in operational delivery roles across nearly every department. The profession is the face of …

A Skilled Civil Service: the Policy Profession

Policy profession showcase in the South West

A guest blog by Toyin Owolabi, Policy Profession HR Business Partner Civil Service policy professionals live and work in locations all across the UK. Some are based in cities, others in more rural areas. Regardless of location, they live alongside …

Skills: Wargaming and Red Teaming - How the MoD is challenging defence thinking

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How do you test ideas and policies? The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is using a range of new tools to examine complex global problems as well as sharing its methods with other departments to improve decision making across government - …

A Skilled Civil Service: Reforming the Fast Stream

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The Fast Stream has long been the Civil Service’s flagship emerging talent development programme. It rivals the best graduate programmes in the UK, currently sitting in the number two spot of the Times Top 100 Graduate Employers. Every year around …