Issue - meetings

That contracts be awarded to the preferred bidders of WillisClare Ltd and Penna Plc as agreed on the basis, as set out in the Part 2 annexe.

Reasons for Decisions:

Leaders and managers are going through one of the most difficult phases ever to face the public sector. Surrey has to find £260m savings over the next three years and leaders and managers need to have the resilience to be able to lead and implement unprecedented transformation and still keep services performing well. The previous coaching programme has started to deliver real benefits for residents and the High Performance Development Programme is designed to take performance to another level.  

[The decisions on this item can be called in by the Council Overview and Scrutiny Committee]

The Cabinet Member for Business Services set out the benefits of the High Performance Leadership Development Programme. She said that a coaching programme had taken place between 2009 and 2013.  1,545 people went through the programme and this was Phase 1 of the Leadership Development Pathway.

Phase 2 - the new High Performance Development Programme (HPDP) had now been developed and after a successful pilot of the new HPDP, carried out between November 2013 and April 2014, a procurement exercise had now been completed to enable the Council to secure a supplier to deliver the full programme. (Financial information relating to the award of contracts was discussed in Part 2 of the agenda)

The Cabinet Member referred to Annex A of the submitted report, which set out the Summary of Programme content. She confirmed that much of the programme would be delivered ‘in house’ by senior managers who had already completed the programme. Referring to Equality and Diversity, she confirmed the potentially positive impact on all employed staff through inclusion on this training and development programme.

It was confirmed that the programme was compulsory for the Cabinet Team and would be available to all other Members on a voluntary basis.

Other Members made the following points:

·         The importance of succession planning and ‘growing your own’

·         That this programme would develop the skills to enable Members and staff  to achieve their potential.

RESOLVED:

That contracts be awarded to the preferred bidders of WillisClare Ltd and Penna Plc as agreed on the basis, as set out in the Part 2 annexe.

Reasons for Decisions:

Leaders and managers are going through one of the most difficult phases ever to face the public sector. Surrey has to find £260m savings over the next three years and leaders and managers need to have the resilience to be able to lead and implement unprecedented transformation and still keep services performing well. The previous coaching programme has started to deliver real benefits for residents and the High Performance Development Programme is designed to take performance to another level.