All posts tagged "Leo Yip"
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Global Government Leaders’ Forum puts international learning for civil servants centre stageThis year’s Global Government Leaders’ Forum has brought together public servants from across the world to share solutions to the common challenges and opportunities they face. Public servants from Singapore
- Posted January 20, 2026
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Singapore tops global civil service rankingSingapore has come out on top of a new ranking of the performance of 120 public administrations around the world, with Denmark, Canada, Norway and Finland completing the top five.
- Posted December 11, 2024
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Exclusive Global Government Forum research reveals five pillars of a modern civil serviceGlobal Government Forum research has revealed the key characteristics needed in a modern public service, with priorities ranging across leadership, digital service delivery, workforce development, cross-departmental integration, and citizen trust.
- Posted August 28, 2024
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Building diverse public service workforces that reflect the communities they serveOrganisations with diverse leaderships are better able to meet citizens’ needs and expectations – but how can civil service bodies broaden the range of people who make it to the
- Posted June 2, 2024
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Governments are redefining their approach to productivityAt the Global Government Summit, civil service leaders identified the keys to driving up government productivity: staff wellbeing, smart incentives, digital technologies – and easing out those who resolutely refuse
- Posted May 26, 2024
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Governments navigate the double-edged sword of AIArtificial intelligence could boost civil service productivity by 45%, estimates suggest – but it also presents major new challenges for government, including rapid economic change and an urgent need for
- Posted May 19, 2024
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Fit to lead: how to tackle the COVID assault courseThe pandemic has presented civil service leaders with huge challenges – but it has also provided “the best leadership development and identification exercise there ever was”. At the 2022 Global
- Posted April 24, 2022
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Walking the tightrope: the balancing act facing civil service leadersOpening the 2022 Global Government Summit, Singapore civil service chief Leo Yip set out four fields in which civil service leaders must meet apparently conflicting goals – finding ways to
- Posted March 31, 2022
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A new breed of public servants: skills and staffing after the pandemicCivil servants have broken new ground during the COVID-19 pandemic – using hackathons, scientific advisory groups and private sector volunteers to shape policy and deliver services, for example. But at
- Posted May 10, 2021
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The race to protect: how COVID-19 supercharged civil service deliveryWhen the pandemic arrived, civil services acted rapidly to protect citizens. At the Global Government Summit, national leaders discussed some of the lessons they’d learned – and looked ahead to
- Posted April 28, 2021
