Your Leadership Matters Core Programme

In December 2022 the Scottish Government approval and funding were confirmed for Your Leadership Matters Core Programme Phase 2. With this confirmation, the procurement process for a third party partnership provider was finalised and Ernst & Young (EY) were confirmed as the successful bidder. From 9 January 2023 the Leadership and Talent team and EY mobilised to deliver a bespoke leadership development programme, whilst also receiving the necessary training and resources to deliver this internally going forward. This therefore represents an investment in our leaders and future-proofing of this initiative from a financial standpoint.

It is projected that the full mobilisation of the program will take 12 weeks with the programme launching in March 2023.

During the reporting period, the Leadership and Talent team commenced planning and preparation for Phase 2 ahead of final approval. The below provides an overview of the key stages of this work:

Strategic narrative: Communications Strategic Narrative created to support the Business Case for YLM phase 2

Funding: Business case presented through internal governance and forwarded for approval by the SPA board. Further information was provided to the Scottish Government and final sign off was granted end of November 2022

Lessons Learned: YLM phase 2 has a greater target audience which will have an impact on logistics. To ensure a positive learning experience and that the aims of  the programme are realised, the YLM team have drawn on lessons learned from phase 1 and have liaised with key areas across PS to ensure successful implementation, with a particular focus on; IT, resource deployment, communications strategy, learning content, logistics, and administration

Contract: The contract with EY has been signed off and the statement of works is currently under final negotiations.

Commencing Phase 2: A ‘kick off’ meeting with EY and PS on 12 December 2022 provided an opportunity to meet the EY team and present the PS YLM team. On 22 December 2022 a further meeting took place between EY and DCC Taylor, Temporary Deputy Director Nicky Page and HOD L&T Alex Hunter, to agree and finalise the mobilisation.

The Programme will be delivered to 2 target audiences:

Next 400 = Chief Inspectors and Staff Grades 8-10 (with Line Manager responsibilities) plus any of the top 250 who did not complete in Phase 1.

FLL 5000 = Inspectors, Sgts, Staff Grades 4-7 (with Line manager responsibilities)

Due to the volume of participants within this cohort we will split the group in half, with 2500 completing as the programme in ‘rotation 1’ and the final 2500 completing the ‘rotation 2’