#OneTeamGovGlobal blog collection
Collecting people’s stories about the day!
Last week we held #OneTeamGovGlobal. An event of over 700 people from 43 countries coming together to “unconference” make connections and discuss how to make public service better for citizens.
Many people have blogged about their day, and we are collecting those blogs here.
Beth Fox has some wonderful reflections on synergy, pace and delivery:
John Kenney has written a great piece about the day and how this is acknowledging the work to be done to reform government.
Brenna Maher talks about her time at the event and what she learned. Thank you for coming!
Here’s Lily Spek from Canada’s Free Agents talking about her trip to London and what she has taken back to use in her job:
Clare Tasker describes her experience of #OneTeamGovGlobal and how this has reinforced her Civil Service Local Academy experience:
Here’s Elena from the Centre for Public Impact speaking about what she learned on the day:
Alex Roberts from the Observatory of Public Sector Innovation speaks about how the event brought together people interested in reform from around the world.
Here’s Matt from NHS Digital talking about the day and the session he pitched:
Here’s @jukesie’s take on the day, a great personal story of overcoming cynicism and taking the positive for what it’s worth. We act in the open and positively and we want to bring optimism to create change.
Ioana from CFR-CRF has written two blogs about the day. In the first (below) she talks about breaking with tradition, rethinking ways of working and what it means to be a commonwealth country in terms of governance.
In the second Ioana talks about what the event meant to her:
Here’s tammy talking us through her Lego Serious Play session that took place in The Park.
Sarah from Snook responds to a session she attended about influencing stakeholders:
Ian was part of #TeamRutherford (he spent the day volunteering and facilitating discussions in the Rutherford room). His weeknotes talk about his work volunteering and perspectives on the day.
Here’s ktmcneil’s weeknotes featuring her thoughts on the event:
Lizzi works in Local Government, writes weeknotes and attended the event. Here she talks about the sessions she attended in The Park including How Not To Suck at Post-it Notes
Sean has done a lovely write up of the day and about finding out about and joining up with One Team Gov more generally.
Terence was also part of #TeamRutherford and has shared some of his tweets, and amazing 360 photos from the day:
Jenny was part of the organising team and helped to organise the volunteers, amongst other things. Here’s her take on the day:
Zoe was part of the team in the #Keats room, and her write up about the day is here:
Here’s Dan taking about the day in his #weeknotes
The Delib Team have written up two of the sessions that they went to and made their session notes available here:
Cate works at Hackney Council and mentions what she learned at #OneTeamGovGlobal in her weeknotes:
Andy has written his weeknotes which also features lots of detail about the International Service Design conference:
kim ran a session on Sketchnoting and also volunteered in various places around the day. Her weeknotes are here:
Julie is head of Capability at the Parliamentary Digital service and she helped to volunteer on the day. Her weeknotes describing her experience are here:
Sharon was a volunteer on the day, here she talks about what she got out of the day.
Debbie was park of One Team Gov comms squad, her weeknotes describe the event:
Prateek was part of the organising team and talks about the future of the One Team Gov movement here:
Nour was one of the organising committee for the event and her inspiring thoughts about the day are here:
Sam was part of the organising team and comms squad, her weeknotes are here:
