WRITINGS

In our Community of Practice co-creation  thus far, one of the key themes has been how to  get from point A (the current state of play in Government in the UK) to point B (variously – Mission-ready; rewiring the state, now Move Fast, Fix Things ). All of these involve the core engine of learning and transformation in the civil service and public sector. Or: Learning to Transform , which was the lens for the work that in part inspired the idea of a Community of Practice, shari

Despite what endless think pieces and LinkedIn posts try to tell us, you probably can’t create a whole “New You”, on January 1 st . (My apologies). The good news is that you probably don’t need to, to elevate the impact of your intentions, goals and purpose into effective action. It’s not a huge spoiler to say that none of us who work in transformation, change or behavioural science can magic you into an idealised version of yourself (sorry). But what we can do, which I think

What happens when you go back into your organisation or network after a transformative learning or convening experience, where no one else knows what you've learnt - and what can behavioural science do to help?   The “Concrete Wall” is a concept we coined a few years ago, in our initial co-creation work for the Curiosity Incubator | Accelerator for Good with colleagues across the world, including key discussions with the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership team

The Intellectual Forum at Jesus College, Cambridge - the birthplace of the Curiosity Incubator - recently featured an article about our origin story, and how we came to be, in the most recent Jesus College Annual Report (pp 39-42 - link here ). We had a lot of fun working through with editor Kate Coughlin what our origin story actually is, how to distil the themes on which we draw, the influences to our work and framework, and what makes the Curiosity Incubator | Accelerato

In blog #1  on co-creating a Community of Practice on 21 st  Century Government Learning, we proposed transitioning from a ‘where next?’ approach to policymaking and learning, to a ‘how, next?’ one, to meet our current challenges. Our merry band of Learning in Government CoP-ers at the kick off workshop When it works well, learning in Government is not only a set of useful organisational or HR tools – it’s a continuous approach to new information and shifting territory, that

It was a fantastic Curiosity Incubator day at Jesus College, Cambridge, with colleagues from the Cabinet Office, Department for Education, Net Zero mission and the University Policy Engagement Network, co-discovering together what needs to be built for government learning in the 21 st  century.   A key piece of the puzzle is the peer-to-peer learning that gets to the very heart of how we learn together what works, what to try, and how to try it. Our workshop was bookended by