Career and Professional Development Insights
How to Make Your Current Role Your Next Development Opportunity
28 Oct 2026
One thing I’ve learned from conversations with candidates and senior leaders is that career development does not always mean a new job or a new place.
In fact, some of the strongest leaders I meet are people who have ...
The Digital Skills Gap in Government: Why Flexible Consultancy Capability Matters More Than Ever
28 Oct 2026
Digital transformation is no longer a standalone programme within government. Technology, data, AI and digital services are increasingly central to how departments operate and deliver services to the public.
But ambit ...
The Art of Being Memorable: Presence, Authenticity and Energy That Stands Out
27 Oct 2026
When you’re being considered for a senior role, having the right experience is only part of the picture. By the time you reach senior leadership level, there are likely to be several people in a process who can demonstra ...
Interims as Change Agents: Delivering Today, Building for Tomorrow
26 Oct 2026
The plans for Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) continue to create significant demands on local authority leadership teams. While attention has often focused on future structures and governance, the immediate impact ...
Executive Recruitment in LATCOs: Why Traditional Approaches Don't Always Work
26 Oct 2026
When a council's trading company struggles to appoint a managing director, the market often gets the blame. Sometimes that's fair. The pool of people who have led a commercial operation within a public governance framewo ...
Interim Insights - David Westworth
22 Oct 2026
After an established career in housing leadership, David Westworth recently stepped into the interim market, taking on his first assignment as Interim Assistant Director of Customer Support. We caught up with David t ...
What Housing Can Learn From Local Government Reorganisation
21 Oct 2026
After a period in which councils had been preparing for significant structural change, the Government's September decision to review Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) has put plans on hold in many areas. For some lea ...
Why the Researcher’s Call Is Worth Twenty Minutes of Your Time
14 Oct 2026
Most weeks, I speak to senior leaders who tell me they are approached constantly and cannot take every call. A message arrives from a name they do not recognise, about a role they were not looking for, and it sits unansw ...
The Talent Market Is Already Moving. Which Gaps Will Appear First?
13 Oct 2026
The latest pause to Local Government Reorganisation may have changed the immediate timetable, but it hasn’t put the talent market on hold.
Our latest LGR and Devolution research, conducted before the most recent annou ...
Re-entering the Market After Time Out
11 Oct 2026
Taking time away from your career can happen for all sorts of reasons. You may have taken a career break to focus on family, stepped away for personal reasons, taken time to study or simply decided to pause and reassess ...
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