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Project updates (one success;one barrier)
Strategic Property Review
- Success – Draft Property Strategy developed and consultation underway in communities
- Barrier – Too much paper still in offices, this needs to reduce
Anytime Anywhere
- Success – Communications going well
- Barrier – Furniture tender is taking more time than anticipated
Organisational Development
- Success - Good consultation taken place on APDS
- Barrier – Attendance at leadership workshops could be improved
Absence Review
- Success – Mental health first aid courses are underway
- Barrier – Nurse reporting pilot procurement arrangement has now been changed and costs have increased
Recruitment Review
•Success – Work has been undertaken on job profiles which will replace job descriptions for frequently recruited posts
•Barrier – Implementation of the new electronic system for creating job profiles is taking longer than anticipated but being worked on
Terms & Conditions
- Success – Briefings have been held with Directors and staff roadshows are scheduled for November
- Barrier – Need to ensure a commitment from managers to release staff to attend roadshows
Green Travel Plan
- Success – Benchmarking exercise underway with other LA’s in Scotland
- Barrier – Decision on HQ and SPR required to shape green travel plan
Smart Working Smart Travel
- Success – 120 pool cars now available across the Council and additional electric vehicles and vans are soon to be delivered
- Barrier - £50,000 per month is still being spent on staff travel expenses
Relationships First
- Success – 7 young people have now completed the training programme
- Barrier – Workforce team capacity required to ensure dedicate time to project
Prepaid Cards
- Success – Meeting held with Children & families to assist project scope
- Barrier – Unsure of next steps – agreed at meeting to go to tender and will now be progressed
Council HQ & Arts Centre
- Success - A range of options have been developed for consideration
- Barrier – Decision now required, and this is behind, but partly due to the complexity of the project
Council of the Future vision
- All comments from the Transformational Enablers Workstream Board on the Council of the Future Vision have been consolidated into a document. These will be merged with feedback from other Boards and submitted to the Make It Happen Board for consideration.
Make it happen – quick wins
- Records Management recently supported a pilot project funded by Housing to move to paper-lite and new ways of working. This involved use of casual staff to assist with the cleansing and scanning of records. Going forward, it would be advantageous to use the learning from this to feed into a corporate approach.
- Feedback from front facing officers on the new ways of working and co-location of services has been positive.
Key messages for Make it Happen Board
- Culture and behaviour change is pivotal to successful delivery our transformational projects and this will be raised at the Make it Happen Board.
- Practical steps are required to resolve some of the culture change required e.g. increase use of pool cars, reduce paper in offices, ensure staff are attending leadership training.
- The speed of decision making can cause barriers to the pace of some projects.