Most of the time, when I engage with or speak to federal public servants, they are among the most eager to find ways to work around the bureaucracy in which they find themselves. They want to make stuff happen, and ideally, to make it happen right and more quickly. This is particularly true of younger public servants and those below middle management in general (I also find it is often the case of those at the senior levels, who often can’t pierce the fog of middle management to see what is actually happening).
I’m sure this dynamic is not new. In large bureaucracies around the world the self-organizing capacity of public servants have forever been in a low level guerrilla conflict against the hierarchies that both protect but also restrain them. What makes all this more interesting today however, is never before have public servants had more independent capacity to self-organize and never before have the tools at their disposal been more powerful.
So, for those who live in work in Ottawa who’d like to learn some of the tools public servants are using to better network and get work done across groups and ministries, let me point you to “Collaborative Management Day 2012.” (For those of us who aren’t public servants, that link, which directs into GCPEDIA won’t work – but I’m confident it will work for insiders). To be clear, it’s the ideas that are batted around at events like this that I believe will shape how the government will work in the coming decades. Much like the boomers created the public service of today in the 1960’s, millennials are starting to figure out how to remake it in a world of networks, and diminished resources.
Good luck guys. We are counting on you.
Details:
When: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Canada Aviation and Space Museum, 11 Aviation Parkway, Ottawa, ON or via Webcast
Cost: Free! Seats are limited; registration is required for attendance.
The GCPedia community defines collaboration as being “a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together in an intersection of common goals—for example, an intellectual endeavour that is creative in nature—by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus.” And this is exactly what the Collaborative Culture Camp (GOC3) will teach you to achieve at the next Collaborative Management Day on January 25, 2012.
This free event will offer you a day of workshops and learning sessions that will help you:
- Expand your knowledge and use of collaborative tools and culture
- Develop an awareness of alternative processes that deliver results
- Understand how to foster an environment of openness and transparency
- Develop networks to support the application of new tools
At the end of the day you will be able to bring a collaborative toolkit back to your organization to share with your employees and colleagues!
Keep up to date on the event by keeping an eye on our GCPedia pages and by following us on Twitter (@GOC_3) and watching the #goc3 conversation (no account needed to check out the conversation!).
Questions? Concerns? Feedback? Feel free to email the event organizers or leave a message on our Discussion page on GCPedia.
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