Funny how a couple of four day weeks (including a four day weekend) mess with the internal clock. Completely forgot to write and publish my latest weeknote and its Tuesday already. So we made to the end of quarter one, or the end of quarter four if you are following the financial calendar.
What I’ve been up to
- We finished interviewing shortlisted candidates for the assistant director vacancy and have made a verbal offer. Once the role has been formally offered and accepted I will let you know who the successful applicant is. It was a really strong field with a diversity of skills and experience but the panel was unanimous that there was one stand out candidate. V excited for them to join us as soon as possible.
- I had a briefing from TPX impact on the research project they have been running about our future target operating model and how we, Digital, set ourselves up for success in the future. I’ll be sharing the output from the work with you soon. There’s lots of recommendations to take forward and thanks to everyone who helped shape the work.
- As it was year end there was some manic last minute activity to unblock proposed contract extensions and renewals which took up a bit of time.
- I met with the digital outcomes team for an update on how we are proposing to pilot a service ownership model for digital communications.
- Had a musical reminiscence session with Vic S around bands we have loved and seen live which lifted the mood a lot at the end of a hard week.
What I’m planning next
- We have our monthly digital leadership team meeting on Wednesday. We are a little depleted at the moment with Ronald gone and Steve still snowboarding in the alps but still have much business to discuss as it doesn’t ever pause.
- We will be reporting on our progress against our March priorities and setting our April priorities as a leadership team. A reminder to all team leaders that you should now as a minimum be providing your monthly update for March in the team notes Teams channel.
- A rake of catch ups with the various heads of practice to check in and ensure I am up to date with their work and they get the chance to quiz me or escalate stuff they need support unblocking.
- Meeting and briefing our new project manager, Russell, who’s joined us to lead our work around procurement of additional live service support capabilities.
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