Your persona
Your responses indicate that you have a strong understanding of your government’s digital strategy and objectives. You may be actively involved in shaping direction or contributing to its success, and you’re probably aware of the challenges and opportunities that digital strategy and ways of working offer. Consider your current situation. Promoting an agile culture is as much about switching mindset as it is about using agile practices. In a similar vein, increased reliance on digital tools and remote collaboration and communication have changed the way many of us work.
As someone in a leadership position, you may be influential in driving a workplace culture that draws on the best of digital working and agile while ensuring everyone is supported to succeed. Hopefully, you’ll further your expertise and continue to set a high standard for digital strategy, agile working, and digital collaboration within your department.
Build your skills and knowledge
Take ownership of ambitious strategic projects that align with the government's vision and push the boundaries of digital transformation. Develop or commission agile training programs for your team or department that delve deeper into agile principles, lean thinking, and advanced methodologies.
Identify barriers to the success of agile practices (where appropriate), and formulate a response or plan to overcome them. This is another great opportunity to learn with or collaborate with peers — other leaders are likely facing the same challenges.
Identify advanced leadership development opportunities specifically tailored to digital working, focusing on remote leadership, advanced digital culture cultivation, and management of virtual teams (where appropriate to your context). How can you bring these learnings into the wider organisation?
Create a community of practice
Digital Strategy and Working is a common Q&A topic on Apolitical. If you feel you can support the community, consider responding to what’s been posted. How might we help others in the public service build a more digital-first mindset? is the kind of thread you might be well-placed to contribute to.
Think carefully about your network or who you work with. Can you identify anyone who might be a source of information or inspiration for further developing your knowledge, skills and abilities in this area? An informal chat about their work could help bring the context to life. Or, as someone who’s already adept - who could you support or mentor?
Can you find some like-minded peers? Lead discussions and debates on your government's digital strategy. Sharing your insights and hearing what others are doing could support innovation.
Keep exploring
You might feel ready to dive into a piece of structured learning. Our How to Build a Digital Government Service course could be an excellent place to start.
Take some time to explore Apolitical’s community articles, and consider engaging with the article creator by using the comment function. Moving fast, staying safe: Being ‘agile’ in government could be a good place to start.
If you’re looking for inspiration for structured skill development, take a look at our Learning Plans where we have stitched together disparate educational resources into rich, diverse, cohesive and enlightening learning journeys.
What's next?
Not sure if this is the right persona for you? This diagnostic and its suggested outcome have been designed for illustrative purposes and may not reflect your level of awareness or competency.
Find a guide to the statements covered plus the scenario questions here: Digital Self-Assessment and Scenario Summaries.
Explore the other personae using the links below:
Leadership:Digital Explorer, Digital Consolidator, Digital Trailblazer
Non-Leadership:Digital Explorer, Digital Consolidator, Digital Trailblazer
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