{"id":2812,"date":"2025-01-06T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:50:28","slug":"april-2024-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategyguy.com\/NuSum\/2025\/01\/06\/april-2024-update\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2024 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It is my two-year anniversary with OCIO – DTL and here is a snapshot of what I have been up to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July 2022 Anna Wong<\/a> hired me as a Canada’s Free Agents<\/a> to help establish a learning unit as they built out the Digital Talent & Leadership Branch. In those early days, with limited staff, Ashley Evans<\/a> and I engaged in a variety of exciting activities. As the team expanded, first with Liz McKeown<\/a> and Isa David<\/a>, and later with others like Rebecca Nava<\/a>, Madeleine Daigle<\/a>, and Amy McCavour<\/a>, my role evolved. I began to lead the \u201cagile, collaborative development\u201d of a policy instrument that became known as the Digital Competencies for all Public Servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Digital Competencies are collections of behaviors that provide a way to measure and program the skills, knowledge, and attributes needed in a modern public service. They are proving useful in learning and recruitment and will hopefully integrate with other HR processes soon. The process of creating the beta version brought together more than 29 departments and 200 individuals, today Jennifer MacDougall<\/a> and Madeleine Daigle<\/a> are taking them through live beta testing, building self-assessment tools and other fun things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The digital competencies follow the PS Competency Framework pattern, the results of a collaboration I led between OCIO and OCHRO. We created a common approach to defining competencies, effectively a prototype standard that would evolve with application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These types of multi-disciplinary collaborations with the potential for broad impact are just the sort of thing I love to do, so its been a good time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also during the summer of 2023, Madina Ibragimova<\/a> and I concluded the wonderful three year learning collaboration known as the GC Data Ecosystem project. We have left our learnings behind on GCpedia, hoping that someone might find it useful. There is a public glimpse of the product here Digital Talent\/Ecosystem for Digital Talent – wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later in 2023, I found myself adrift as my home department (TC) divested itself from the Free Agents program. Thanks to Anna Wong<\/a>, I soon came ashore back with Digital Talent & Leadership at OCIO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, I am working with the one and only “the Trevor Banks<\/a>” and classification guru Monica. We are collaborating to describe a core bureaucracy for GC \u201cdigital\u201d organizations, this includes products like executive accountability templates and standardized job descriptions for Information and Data Governance, Data Professionals and other digital positions. This is important foundational work that we hope will provide the HR building blocks necessary for creating the multidisciplinary digital service delivery teams essential to future relevance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That about sums up the last few years, great projects and more importantly, great people, those I mentioned and the dozens of other passionate public servants who have been part of the journey. Merci.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you would like to chat about the details of any of this, let me know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the best<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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