Report Summary
This report provides members of the People Committee with an overview of Police Scotland's MyCareer Evaluation.
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Meeting
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People committee - 27 November 2023
Date : 27 November 2023
Location : online
Next Steps
Having taken a measured, consultative approach to gathering feedback about MyCareer and reflecting on the different points and themes that emerged, the following options were presented at Professionalism, Strategy, Engagement and Management Board (PSEMB) on 24 October 2023 for consideration:
Support year 2 of roll out with no changes, to provide a further 12 months of organisation practice, feedback and evaluation i.e. facilitate a period of embedding and further measurement before any changes are considered.
Implement minor recommendations to existing training, intranet resources and tools to improve the ongoing implementation of the approach i.e. improve the support surrounding MyCareer without changing the method/approach and requirements linked to promotion. A set of recommendations are prepared to deliver this option based on some of the feedback.
Scope and implement a review of the MyCareer core methods including how to share expectations of our people performance; a review of Reflection Logs as a method of recording and recognising performance and the use of MyCareer as a promotion tool. This would be with a view to implementing changes to MyCareer to refocus on the day-to- day conversations between managers and people to release capability and capacity to achieve high performance across the organisation, whilst recognising the wellbeing needs of our people.
Recommendation
Following discussion at PSEMB, it was considered that larger changes outlined in option 3 may be too premature and that a further period to embed the system would be valuable. However, it was agreed that minor amendments to existing training, intranet resources and tools to improve the ongoing implementation of the approach would be beneficial and as such, it was agreed that option 2 should be progressed.
This option will enable incremental change in an evolutionary manner and while still taking into account what our people have said about MyCareer. However, it also needs to be noted that whatever framework is put in place, the success or not of this relies on cultural change and leadership.
Our next step will be to engage our senior leaders at a Senior Leaders Forum (SLF) to invite them to discuss proposed recommendations and amendments in our approach to the next evolution of MyCareer.
Future updates on the progress of MyCareer will continue to be reported to members through the Bi-annual Leadership update.
