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As Head of Children’s Services at Monmouthshire County Council, Tracy Jelfs faced the difficult task of improving KPIs, reining in spending and creating a happy, engaged workplace while also delivering quality services to vulnerable children and young people. Speaking at the 2017 Creating Happy Workplaces in the Public Sector Conference, Tracy details her experiences tackling these twin challenges.
Susan Ronaldson is the NAO's Director for Engagement and Change. She was joined by Steve Mirfin, Head of Skills and Talent, at the 2017 Creating Happy Workplaces in the Public Sector Conference to speak about the measures the NAO has taken to get the best out of its people. Read the transcript and watch the full talk below.
Alex Segrove is the Delivery Lead for the Government Delivery Service (GDS) – the digital transformation unit within the Cabinet Office. GDS are guided by 11 core principles, which Alex outlines in her talk at the 2017 Creating Happy Workplaces in the Public Sector conference. Read the transcript and watch the full talk below.
Gemma Beadle, the HR Manager at Advanced Technology Services UK, has a passion for wellbeing in the workplace. Joined by ATS Site Manager, Damien O’Neill, Gemma spoke at the 2017 Happy Workplaces conference about ATS’s achievements in creating a happy workplace. Read the transcript and watch the full video here.
Speaking at the 2017 Happy Workplaces conference, Foundation SP CEO Simon Grosse explains that the FSP ethos is to care about people and try to extract each individual’s unrealised potential by prioritising empowerment, autonomy and freedom. Watch the full talk.
Brendan Martin of UK organisation Public World was serving as the principal carer for his mum when he noticed that UK home care organisations weren't just typically underfunded, but also managed in counterproductive ways. He's been working in collaboration with Dutch home care organisation Buurtzorg to improve home care in the UK. Madelon van Tilburg has been at Buurtzorg since 2011. Buurtzorg differs from her previous employers in that it lets nurses exercise freedom and responsibility in the job they’re trained for. Brendan and Madelon spoke at the 2017 Happy Workplaces Conference about how Buurtzorg reinvented Dutch home care and how the same could be done in the UK.
Peter Cheese, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, believes humans will maintain indispensable workplace significance even as technology continues to expand. View Peter's talk from the 2017 Happy Workplaces conference, in which he makes a compelling case for why the future of work is human.
John Lewis Partnership has been experimenting with how to make people happy for a century. Its founder, John Spedan Lewis, was driven to create a workplace that functioned so that all parts of the ecosystem were in balance and worked to improve the whole. Speaking at the 2018 Happy Workplaces Conference, Sarah Gillard explains how the John Lewis Partnership goes about achieving its ultimate purpose: securing the happiness of all its members.
Dr. Jill Armstrong and Jason Ghaboos are working together to create a more gender inclusive workplace. Speaking at the 2018 Happy Workplaces Conference, Jill and Jason (who're from the Murray Edwards College at Cambridge) explore some of our deep seated assumptions about men and women and how we apply those filters to our workplaces.
Nikki Gatenby is the owner and managing director of Propellernet, which was named one of the top 10 Best Places to Work in the UK for six years running. Digital marketing has always been their focus, but over the last decade they've gone from an unremarkable and locally-based company to a super-engaged, global player. Speaking at the 2018 Happy Workplaces Conference, Nikki explains how the decision to start putting people before profit has not only brought about greater workplace happiness, but also boosted profits.