'Living It' - January 2010

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Monday, 8th February 2010

We are pleased to annouce the first winners of the 'Living It' awards in 2010...

Small Changes Result In Massive Impact

Monday, 8th February 2010

New BEST Leader for Saltley Leisure Centre, Toni Hollis, embraced her role by ensuring she had a sound understanding of the programme and how it could benefit the team and individuals. With the support of the BEST Team she gained the confidence to deliver a productive workshop in July 2009......

Slugs And Snails And Worm Tails

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Monday, 8th February 2010

Amy Bickle, BEST leader at the Circle Day Nursery, Kingstanding, and her team, have been developing partnerships with parents by involving them in creating a nursery vegetable patch. As part of their BEST discussion, the team felt they wanted to involve parents more in the life of the nursery, to......

Change Is For The BEST

Monday, 8th February 2010

Two teams from the Early Years division in the Children, Young People and Families directorate have found that focusing on change in the future can improve their working environment in the present! The Information and Support Team for Children’s Centres and the Monitoring and Evaluation Central Support Team work in the......

BEST Helps Team Take Hart

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Monday, 8th February 2010

Staff from the Education Welfare Service’s Heart of Birmingham team felt that it would be more beneficial to merge together as one joint BEST team instead of being divided, a decision that has helped create a stronger team spirit and collaborative atmosphere. To reinforce this, BEST leaders......

Success Stories 2010

Monday, 8th February 2010

Continuing from 2009 are the successes for 2010. Check out this section to see what your colleagues across the Council have been up to and maybe you'll get some inspiration for your BEST actions! ......

Upcoming Events

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Monday, 1st February 2010

The Lord Mayor Michael Wilkes is hosting his curry evening in aid of the Lord Mayor's Charity Appeal. This one off special event is on Wednesday 24th February 2010 in Erdington, Birmingham....

Kevin Wall

Monday, 1st February 2010

I joined Birmingham City Council in 2006 as an IT Trainer in the Housing Directorate having previously worked in several other training roles, including the manager of an employment and training centre for Peabody Trust in London. joined the Change Agent pool in November last year and secured a......

LGC Mini Challenge - February 2010

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Tuesday, 12th January 2010

Following the success and excellent feedback from the 2008 mini challenges, Birmingham City Council will be holding our 3rd Local Government Chronicle Mini Challenge on 24 February 10....

Employees Fast Track Leadership Skills

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Sunday, 10th January 2010

Employees fast-track leadership skills 26 members of the council’s younger employees’ network, Generation BEST, have become the first in the council to benefit from a new training programme for new and aspiring managers in local government. Steps to Leadership Accelerate is run by the West Midlands Local Government Association and is......

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