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Raffaela Goodby

Current Role: Employee Engagement & Recognition Manager

Room 101: Negativity, ear wax, spitting

Couldn't live without: My beautiful family, smiling, hot tea, 3G

Contact

tel. 0121 675 2354
email. raffaela.goodby@birmingham.gov.uk

Twitter Feed @birminghambest

I have been with Birmingham Council for seven years and joined as a newbie 18 months after graduating from a Psychology degree. I joined the Council as a Human Resources Advisor working in reward, and then discovered a passion for all things organisation development and engagement.

I have been leading Birmingham BEST since the launch of the programme in 2006. I am the BCC lead for the Lord Mayor's Charities and manage a number of organisation development projects on behalf of the Chief Executive as well as heading up the engagement and recognition team in our Equalities & Human Resources service.

My areas of expertise and passion are around employee engagement, culture change and transforming ways of working, the psychology of change and reward and recognition strategies. I am passionate about local government and about Birmingham and it's future.

Local Government employs unique & amazing people and I feel very proud that our Birmingham BEST employee engagement programme offers people more opportunity to showcase their talent, and show the UK how unique and talented us Local Gov'ers are, and how much we care about the services we deliver.

Raffaela Linkedin Profile & Recommendations
CIPD Article January 09
IDeA Case Study on BEST programme
Speaking - Public Sector South West Employers
Speaking - Engagement 2.0
Speaking - PPMA Conference 09
CIPD Employee Engagement Conference 09
IDeA Employee Engagement Video 'Thank Goodness It's Monday' Speaking- LGC Workforce Planning & Use of Resources
LG Comms Speaking Event Oct 09
NHS Conference - Leading Workforce Thinking
Young LA of the Year 2008
Localgov.co.uk article on twittering for engagement
PPMA Blog
Winners of National Training Award - West Midlands Region
Supporting the LGC Challenge 09
Birmingham City Council win national HR Award
Speaking - Employee Engagement Summit 2010 Public Service Review Article Inside Government - Employee Engagement Summit July 2010
National Public Sector Employee Engagement Summit July 2010
ACAS Employee Engagement Conference November 2010
NHS Employers Conference November 2010