Hertfordshire County Council How to create a winning L&D strategy Angela Connolly - Senior L&OD Officer

Our Challenge “We want Hertfordshire to remain a county where people have the opportunity to live healthy, fulfilling lives in thriving, prosperous communities” Excerpt Corporate Plan

Enabling Performance and Potential ‘Our vision is to provide high quality learning and development opportunities to enable colleagues to create a County of Opportunity and Council for the future’ Excerpt Herts HR L&D Strategy

4 Strategic Priorities: 1. Talent, Succession Planning and Leadership 2. Management Foundations 3. Young and Vulnerable People 4. Organisational Development 3 year People Strategy: Want to join Want to stay Want to be the best

Leadership Development Coaching & Mentoring On-Line Learning Platform

Leadership Development

23 coaches in internal pool Dec joined the EELGA Regional Coaching Pool Developed coaching agreement July st cohort ILM5 coaches qualified Aug went live with on-line resource page for coaching and mentoring Sept nd cohort ILM5 coaches started training Peer mentors matched between cohort 1 and 2 Promote masterclass events at University of Hertfordshire Coaching supervision group sessions

Future Focus

"In these challenging times for the public sector, our success is totally dependent on the commitment and dedication of the talented people who work here. We couldn't meet our targets for savings, service improvement and organisational change without making the most of their potential and we couldn't do that without the learning and development team. They've made a significant contribution to our transformation programme by supporting us to do things differently to build our capacity through a range ground breaking programmes that have a clear focus on outcomes for the organisation". John Wood, Chief Executive. Hertfordshire County Council

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