Bringing our ambitions to life
Our plans to transform both the Council and the services that we provide is ambitious and not without challenge. To enable delivery, we will:
- Develop and meaningfully embed a One Coventry Culture across our workforce, encouraging and providing opportunities to offer ideas, work outside of service areas and feel valued by the organisation for the contribution they make.
- Collaborate with our residents, communities, our people, and partners on new solutions, shifting roles, responsibilities and resources, taking positive risks and empowering people to test new ways of working.
- Build upon our initiatives such as Every Penny Counts, engaging our people and creating ways for our people to play a role in creative thinking about how we ensure services meet resident needs, whilst maximising efficiency and reducing overall expenditure.
- Embed a culture of continuous improvement, where we are data-rich, technology-enabled and relentless in our focus on delivering better, smarter services.
- Divert and co-ordinate existing capacity including operational and enabling services to focus on the areas of highest priority and impact. The Council’s transformation and finance services in particular will dedicate resources to co-ordination and delivery of the programmes. Other enabling services including Communications, ICT, Insight, HR, Legal Services and Risk Management will provide expertise as needed to support delivery.
- Explore alternative resourcing options. This will include Social Value, grant and other external funding. We will act as a connector between community organisations and funders where possible and identify priorities for investment.
- Develop our performance management approach to ensure consistent measures, standards and outcomes, embedded in clear performance objectives that are agreed with teams.