Public service renaissance

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Roadmap

Celebrate success

Attend to the negative

Organisational story telling

Imagine

Renaissance

The six pillars

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Celebrate success

The glass is half full

Culture is problematic

Reform is ‘safe’

Need a full picture of culture

So a renaissance is needed

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Organisational story telling

The ATO example

Good in themselves

But are corporatised

The untold stories

They don’t enter the record

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Imagine a public service . . .

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Where Individuals suffer

Risk aversion is common

Fear is common

Uncertainty is common

Doubt is common

Assets and liabilities

Many intellectual assets

Great people

Cautious approach to reform

Read tape and fear

Lack of trust in our people

Misalignment

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The six pillars

Freedom of information

Professional responsibility

Social responsibility

Freedom of expression

Public service

Open and safe disclosure

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Open and safe disclosure

Public service culture app

Disclose untold stories

Rate organisational culture

Submission guidelines

Open and transparent

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So the question is . . .Why not provide a means for public servants to submit their raw organisational stories and rate their agencies according to specific cultural attributes?

The attributes rated should be those that help us move forward and shift the culture to one more amenable to smart government.

Submission guidelines could be prepared to support people with their stories being viewable by all public servants.

The culture rating should be available for all to see.

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