As a minute taker, you’re responsible for recording relevant notes during important meetings. You’ll then use them to produce a final document to send to attendees and anyone else who requires a...
How to Prepare Staff to Return to the Workplace Post-COVID-19
Changes to lockdown restrictions have had a significant impact on the public sector. As lockdown measures change and organisations look to gradually reopen, employers need to plan how they can...
How to Write a Critical Summary
To critically assess, you don’t negatively criticise a work as in popular films or book reviews. Instead, you engage generously with their ideas and arguments to increase the reader's...
Writing Briefs for Government and the Public Sector: Steps to Success
A briefing is designed to deliver complex information effectively to diverse audiences and decision-makers. The main goal is to address an issue, influence others to join in and offer a solution...
How to Achieve Female Empowerment in the Workplace
Women offer a unique perspective to the business world, but simply getting women into the workplace isn’t enough on its own. To reap the benefits of gender diversity, you need to empower female...
A Quick Guide to Presenting Complex Information With Simplicity
In the public sector, you work with complex information. Overloaded reports, presentations and briefs do little to engage or inform your audience, leaving them confused and with more questions...
How to Effectively Respond to Complaints in the Public Sector
As you’ll know, public sector organisations are open to more scrutiny than most. While you might be working hard to provide the best possible service, there will always be a complaint or two that...
Three Development Areas for Successful Leadership
Being a leader and a manager is one of the most rewarding, yet tough, jobs that you can do. You are expected to be inspirational to your staff, whilst managing their performance. You are required to...
Popular Online Training Courses for the Public Sector in 2020
Those who work in the public sector must continually learn and adapt to new processes, policies and ways of working. Understanding ModernGov has become the leading provider for public sector...
The Benefits of Remote Training Courses
From interactive webinars to e-learning courses, remote training comes in lots of different formats. COVID-19 has stopped you from attending conferences and sitting next to other eager learners....