All posts tagged "leadership"

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  Women Leaders Index: how the Canadian public service achieved gender parity in its highest ranks

  Canada is the only G20 country to have reached gender balance in public service leadership positions, a new report from Global Government Forum has found. Here, long-time public service leader

  • Posted November 30, 2022
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  Proportion of women civil service leaders improves internationally – but only one G20 country has achieved gender parity in top jobs

  Less than one in three senior civil servants across the governments of G20 countries are women, new research from Global Government Forum has found. The latest Women Leaders Index found

  • Posted November 23, 2022
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  ‘Eliminate redundant and inefficient bureaucracy’: five minutes with Angola’s João Quipipa

  João Quipipa, former secretary of state at the Angolan Treasury, now executive board member at UNITEL – the country’s part-government-owned telecommunications company – shares his proudest career achievements, his desire

  • Posted October 9, 2022
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  ‘If we’re not representative, why would people trust us?’: GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with Canada’s recently retired head of public service accessibility, Yazmine Laroche

  Global Government Forum’s new podcast is out, featuring Yazmine Laroche who retired from the Canadian Public Service after three decades in a wide variety of roles – latterly as deputy

  • Posted September 2, 2022
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  Staying in the loop on your commute or on the beach: the best public policy and government podcasts this summer

  Podcasts have become a key information source for public and civil servants. Along with books, periodicals and social networking, podcasts are key elements of the media landscape for officials around

  • Posted August 14, 2022
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  ‘It’s impossible to lead people who don’t trust you’: five minutes with Slovenia’s public administration chief Peter Pogačar

  Peter Pogačar, the director general of the public sector directorate in Slovenia’s Ministry of Public Administration, tells GGF about civil service leaders’ resistance to change, why he’s inspired by the

  • Posted July 23, 2022
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  Finland’s stats chief Markus Sovala: from challenging employee to change leader 

  Dr Markus Sovala is one year into his five-year term as Statistics Finland’s director general. He tells Mia Hunt about his priorities for the agency – enabling its customers to

  • Posted June 24, 2022
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  Taking the good with the bad: listen to GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with Canada’s former cabinet secretary, Michael Wernick

  Global Government Forum has gone live with the latest episode of its Leading Questions podcast, featuring former clerk of the Privy Council of Canada and secretary to the Cabinet, Michael

  • Posted June 23, 2022
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  ‘The best leaders focus on inspiring and enabling their staff to give their best’: five minutes with… Ireland’s CIO Barry Lowry

  Lowry, who was director of ICT shared services and strategy for the Northern Ireland Executive before becoming the Republic of Ireland’s chief information officer in 2016, tells GGF about Ireland’s

  • Posted May 26, 2022
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  Staying sane while managing change: Listen to the latest Leading Questions podcast with UK civil service stalwart Sir Suma Chakrabarti

  The latest episode of Global Government Forum’s flagship Leading Questions podcast is now live featuring long-time UK senior civil servant turned European Bank for Reconstruction and Development president, Sir Suma Chakrabarti.

  • Posted May 19, 2022
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