To provide confident and powerful leadership in a multidisciplinary environment, leaders need a depth of knowledge and understanding of the core disciplines that underpin the work of the Civil Service. This includes key professions and functions, and the core Civil Service discipline of politics. The Leadership Academy can support you to develop and broaden capability through a range of workshops, resources, and events.
Leading in a multidisciplinary environment - what senior leaders need to know
The guide sets out the knowledge, skills and behaviours that all senior leaders should seek to acquire in Finance, Commercial, Project Delivery, and Digital, Data and Technology, in order to provide effective cross-functional leadership. This will help target your development, and identify gaps in your capability. This will help target your development, and identify gaps in your capability will be provided in October 2017.
Core knowledge learning
A suite of learning opportunities providing an essential grounding in core Civil Service disciplines. Designed specifically for Senior Civil Servants, in partnership with the professions, functions and parliament, focussing on the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to lead in a multidisciplinary environment.
| Leading as an SRO | 19/10/2017 |
| Parliamentary insights: European Union (Withdrawal) Bill and Parliament | 24/10/2017 |
| 10 questions about finance you’re too senior to ask | 25/10/2017 |
| EU exit: devolution settlements and intergovernmental working | 21/11/2017 |
| Parliamentary insights: (topic TBC) | 23/11/2017 |
| Leading in a World of Digital Transformation | 24/11/2017 |
| Commercial Skills for Leaders | No event scheduled yet |
Experience sharing events
Drawing from the experiences of other senior leaders and sharing ideas is an essential way for leaders to develop. Through the Leadership Academy, senior leaders will have access to a range of seminars and events, aimed at generating dialogue, and learning from other Senior Civil Servants about their experiences of leading in a multidisciplinary environment.
| Lessons from delivering transformational change in DWP | 27/11/2017 |
Support from a specialist peer
We can match you with a peer from within the Commercial, Project Delivery, and Digital Data and Technology professions, who can offer advice and guidance, and support you when leading outside your own areas of expertise. Drawing from the knowledge and experience of specialist peers will help broaden your understanding of core disciplines, and should be a key source of support.
Please contact the relevant mailbox to arrange contact:
- Project Delivery: scspeersupport@ipa.gov.uk
- Digital Data and Technology: SCS-peer-support@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk
- Commercial: csleadershipacademy@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
For finance related advice and guidance, you should contact your Departmental Finance Business Partner, who can support you to broaden your understanding of government finance.
Experiential and immersive learning
Going forwards, we will introduce a range of immersive and experiential learning, to embed, practice and hone the capabilities required to lead in a multidisciplinary environment. These will provide very practical and ‘hands-on’ development opportunities, to take your learning to a deeper level.