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Reshma Deshpande is a Senior Consultant Human Resources

Surrey County Council

employees need to carefully and associate with their work to get it right:

An employee does a good job as inherently want. The hired worker will do a good job, because they represent the organization. Value systems are consistent with both! The workforce of local government is passionate about what they do. We need to work more in freedom and autonomy and the basis for this is participation in the labor market.

Paul O'Brien is the Managing Director

Partnership for Excellence in Public Service (APSE)

Fear not act as a motivator for innovation and progress:

resistance is important because the change was a constant for a long period in local government. There was a significant improvement in government services proposed commercial area of ??the last decade due to a kick in the austerity of the investment made, the cuts of two or three years could eliminate some of these developments.

Note the amount of time and money given to a local government area:

was little mention of broader cultural factors such staff that local authorities have the role of the community. This is often overlooked by the ministers and the media, but the work we have in Swindon a couple of years has shown that over 96% of its staff of experienced environmental services in two main Swindon postcodes. When we did spend with them the day of 53p in the £ 1 of their wages in the local retail sector. I know some stores have discounts for public sector staff and some cities have local plans loyalty.

have some respect for others:

The "Great Society" is something that has been nurtured, developed and delivered by local authorities in local level for years by the methods of co-production, which is overlooked by policymakers. Part of the public sector ethics refers to the feeling of making a difference for the local community that lives inside. This helps to maintain morale in difficult times. In the current climate everyone would benefit from a bit of mutual respect instead of trying to caricature workers continuous local government and bureaucrats sipping tea.

Francis Clarke is a former local government official, enterprise policy

While fear is not long-term change is driving great: The picture in the local government is mixed . In recent years some of the responses to budget cuts have affected staff morale. Authority told staff that no refreshments of any kind are provided, due to budget cuts. The same is true of initiatives such as the distribution of fruit in the office. Many companies do this because they know they have a positive impact on staff.

Consider swaps workplaces capacity:

Volunteering is a good thing and should be open to allow people to participate in well-structured projects. Swaps are workplaces also a good thing, but I'm not sure that would fundamentally change the current situation within the local government. Well thought through swaps may work better. For example, people working in service design and social innovation can benefit from the rigor that finance officials could make, and vice versa.

Tony Brown has been director of education management in the

University of East Anglia

need a new way of training for managers:

Many technical course management to prioritize the development and competition intuition and imagination, because the former are generally easier to teach and evaluate. Managers can learn and develop greater confidence to share their experiences of successful projects in the real world and frustrating. On the one hand it is good to discover that the problems are generic, not isolated. It is also good to find other managers are interested in our problems and small victories.

people are not machines, they need to feel good: Sometimes politicians think and act as if organizations and individuals they are machines whose performance can always be improved by the application of rational analysis and logical incentives. It is more useful to see the work as an emotional process. Its management requires empathy and the ability to make people feel good about what they do. Shared purpose, and be valued by our individual contribution to achieve this goal, is likely to be the key to achieving the best performance.

personal need to feel they have a direct relationship and contact with administrators: middle managers must be good motivators, but our executives and corporate management team have a similar responsibility. They are seen as role models and get the most out of people when people trust and believe that we are all in this together. We have a forum for middle managers at Harrow, where middle managers are involved in program development and external speakers are often invited to speak on topics of the day. This allows departments to share what is happening to them and supports a cascade of clear information on the best team.