Efficient and effective
Kirklees Council works smart and delivers efficiently and effectively
We want to be a transparent, well managed and high performing council. We will focus our resources on doing the right things and doing things right, to make a difference to the outcomes of the people and places of Kirklees.
What we're aiming to achieve
- Healthy, motivated and flexible staff with the right skills, values and behaviours to work in partnership with people and places.
- Strong political leadership, intelligence led decision making, strategies and policies.
- Getting the basics rights, with robust systems, processes and governance that make best use of available resources.
- Collaborative partnership working to inform and shape priorities and action across the public, private and voluntary sectors in Kirklees.
- Transforming our organisation so that it is fit for purpose now and in the future.
Priorities for action
Tracking our progress
- Short-term employee sickness.
- % of spend with suppliers with a branch in or based within Kirklees.
Recovery Listening Circles
In May 2021, we embarked on a project with the aim of better understanding how staff across the organisation are feeling about the future, and our recovery from the pandemic. The project took the form of Listening Circles facilitated by our Senior Management Team. Listening circles provide attendees the opportunity to express how they are thinking and feeling in a safe, non-judgemental environment, empowering them to engage with one another with mutual respect.
We held these circles in the hope of gaining a clearer understanding of how we can help to support a positive recovery for everyone going forward, to communicate the organisation's intentions about how we will work in the future and understand what staff might want from that (appreciating this might look different for different people, teams and services). Finally, we wanted to understand what help and support the organisation could provide to staff to support them to reflect, recuperate and recover. Over 450 members of staff took part in the circles and an in-depth analysis of the key themes resulting from them is currently underway.