08
Ambassadors - West Midlands
NTA JUDGING
Thank to all your efforts in voluntarily promoting, publicising and supporting the Awards. As a result, the West Midlands panel are busy assessing the finalists and about to start the onsite visits. Over 60% of WM entries have reached this stage which is a great improvement. There has been a great range of entries with an increase in submissions from medium and large sized organisations.
SO WHERE TO NOW? NTA 2011
I am pleased to be your regional co-coordinator again and I am making plans for the 2011 Awards, earlier this year, so that we build upon our great result in 2010.
It is a New Year and a NEW Start.
- We have new Promotional fliers NOW for you to pass on to your networks
- TWO Ambassador networking events planned for September and January
NTA Regional Award Winner, Partnership
and Collaboration; Birmingham City Council and Stanton
Marris
Birmingham Aims to be BEST
In 2006 Birmingham City Council (BCC) under the direction of Councillor Alan Rudge, Cabinet Member for Equalities and Human Resources and Stephen Hughes the Chief Executive, engaged Stanton Marris a strategic consultancy, to help develop a programme which would improve employee engagement and motivation leading to improved performance and delivery of improved services to the Council's customers and service users.
The vision was ambitious, at the time the Council employed almost 60,000 employees, whilst the tide had started to turn positively following a change of political administration in 2004 and a commitment from Councillor Rudge in his role as the new Cabinet Member for Equalities and Human Resources to ensure people felt supported, valued and heard, there was still much to be achieved. In the summer of 2006 Stephen Hughes took post as Chief Executive, and his vision was to create a world class council. Both Cllr Rudge and Stephen Hughes were committed to the changes but realised there were challenges ahead - not least the challenging transformation programme that the Council was about to embark on; which would result in a shift change in how the council delivers many of its services, making them more efficient and more tailored to the needs of its service users. Key to the success of achieving this was the support of well trained and enthusiastic staff.
Name : Nicola Laverton
Nicola's involvement with NTA spans more than 10 years as a judge, facilitator and has mentored many organisations across England and Wales that have gone on to win Awards. &D interim/consultant and has extended her sector expertise in financial services, manufacturing, IT, pharmaceuticals, technology, retail and various public sectors bodies.
Commercially aware she is adept in developing effective and pragmatic solutions, working in partnership with clients and focussing on sustainability and evaluation. She is passionate about developing and coaching people to work with change and transformation. She is an Associate in HE and FE for HR and Management qualifications.
