Leadership and Management in a DRAP Environment
As a result of the new Federal budget and subsequent to the Deficit Reduction Action Plan (DRAP), managers in the Canadian Public Service are facing workforce and budget reductions that will have a significant impact on the ability of their organization to meet mandates and function in a 'business as usual' fashion.
Many of the Associates at Delta Partners have been through this before, so we put some thoughts together for a series on the Delta Blog:
- Strategic & Operating Reviews Part 1: We Can’t Agree to Disagree
- Strategic & Operating Reviews Part 2: Alignment and Failure
- Strategic & Operating Reviews Part 3: Change and Failure
- Strategic & Operating Reviews Part 4: A Framework for Success
- Strategic & Operating Reviews Part 5: Waiting for Your Numbers
- Strategic & Operating Reviews: A Checklist to Understand Your Capacity for Change
- Leading Change—Modelling Behaviours Is Crucial for Success
- The Alternative to 'Death by a thousand cuts'
- $90k-a-day for Consulting? Depends What You Are Buying.
And, as you begin to think about your approach to these challenges, we pulled together a list of our pieces that we think are most relevant to public servants as they chart their course through what will likely be a difficult process:
Change Management
- Change Ready or Change Fatigue
- Everyone Hates Change: 12 Steps to Help Overcome the Fear and Doubt
- Build a Culture for Continuous Change
- Change Begins with Listening: 5 Things to Work On
- Kotter's 8 Steps to Change: More Relevant Than Ever
- Understanding Corporate Myths and Symbols: 7 Questions to Ask Yourself
- Book Review: Switch - How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
- Do You Trust Me?
- 7 Key Factors for Making Change Happen
- Anomie: Lost in a World of Constant Change
Strategy
- Creating a Cultural Shift to Frugality
- Logic Models: Both a Tool and a Strategic Process
- Scenario Planning: Create a Context
- Scenario Planning: Crystal Balling or Smart Business?
- Re-visiting the SWOT Analysis
- Tools for Managers: The PESTLE Analysis
Program Management
- Why All Public Service Managers Need to Care ABout Evaluation
- 10 Guiding Principles for an Effective Performance Measurement Framework
- The Org Chart as a Management Tool
- 7 Steps to Straightforward Organizational Design
- Business Case Development: Ignore the Fundamentals at Your Peril
- Benchmarking Evaluation in the Canadian Federal Government
- White Paper – A Primer on Evaluation in the Government of Canada
Business Processes
- Book Review: Innovation – The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want
- Innovation is a Strategy, Not an Epiphany
- 10 Ways to Embrace Positive Risk Taking
- When Dogma Gets in the Way of Innovation
- Budget Cuts: Cut Your Headcount or Improve Your Processes
Employee Productivity
- Attention Managers – Employee Engagement and Fit IS your Job
- Are Your Employees Engaged? Are You Engaging Your Employees?
- Bringing Deming to the Office: Drive Out Fear
- Disability, Mental Health, and the Canadian Public Service
- White Paper – Demand Stress and Depression in the Workplace
- White Paper – Measuring Employee Engagement: A Strategic Priority for Deputy Heads in the Canadian Public Service
Leadership and Implementation
- Are You a Lousy Manager?
- What Can Go Wrong Did Go Wrong: A Compelling Case for Change Management
- 7 Key Factors for Making Change Happen
- You Can Transform Your Organization
- In Praise of Followers
- White Paper – Building Effective Management & Leadership Practices to Enhance Organizational Effectiveness
- White Paper – Creating Order and Meaning During Organizational Chaos: Rise and Fall of the Learning Organization
- White Paper - Organizational Culture vs Climate
If you would like to talk more about how SOR is going to affect you, please contact us.
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