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Managing change in challenging times – the NWNW Regional Conference
by Shaer Halewood
This year’s North West and North Wales (NWNW) annual conference was a day packed with speakers, presentations and networking opportunities for diverse crowd of delegates – from Deputy Chief Executives to AAT students.
Society President Mike Owen introduced the first speakers, Mark Lawrie and Richard Haynes from Deloitte who gave a very interesting insight to the Total Place initiative – something especially relevant to the Greater Manchester delegates in audience.
Following the break, Jane Douglas from Learning to Inspire got all the delegates out of their seats for an interactive session on coping with change, and we even learnt what personality traits we had from the way we clapped.
Before lunch, Janet Grauberg from Public Management and Policy Association gave a much needed insight into the challenges of decision making. PMPA will soon be launching a north west regional hub that will provide low cost high value courses to members and students.
The afternoon session began with Ten Horizon talking about the benefits of social media in organisations – the North West and North Wales use of Twitter and Facebook were highlighted as great examples of social networking and how to keep members up to date.
The best attended session of the day was an interactive presentation from Pete McIntyre and Steve Beet from PricewaterhouseCoopers who talked about ‘The Perfect Storm’ – the challenges the public sector faces in the future and what we can do to prepare for those challenges. CIPFA national President Roger Latham completed the line up of speakers with a look at his presidential year.
We would like to thank Deloitte who were the main sponsors of the event and also annual contributors HSBC and new sponsors Aptus Interim Managers.