Personal development session to maximise leadership potential and help improve change management skills.

Assuming a full term, as we approach the mid-point of the coalition government’s time in office, what are the big political choices for Britain today and are there significantly different alternatives to achieve recovery and growth without doing lasting damage to the infrastructure of our communities

UK plc - on the brink of extinction?

Choices facing the chancellor

With a rate of growth that has fallen so far behind particularly the tiger economies of BRICS and rising eastern economies, does the current economic crisis sound the death-knell for a mature economy like the UK’s or can it thrive beyond the dark years ahead.

The end of the beginning: cost reduction becoming a permanent feature

The age of austerity has only just begun, and survival of the UK’s public services requires change beyond recognition.

Whilst Government departments have been successful in cutting costs and managing on reduced spending allocations for 2010-11, most departments will need to adjust further over the next four years to meet the UK’s deficit reduction targets.

The Auditor General will explore that whilst daunting, this is possible through abandoning short-term measures and adopting long-lasting fundamental change, and departments will achieve long-term value for money only through identifying and implementing new ways of delivering their objectives, with a permanently lower cost base.

Fit for business: boosting national and local economic growth

What role can the public sector play in economic development, how can public service organisations support local economies and attract inward investment.