Are you a Delivery Leader who would value speaking to your peer group about the challenges you are facing?

An offer of support from Donnie MacNicol and Jonathan Norman to join a pilot teleconference for Delivery Leaders to share challenges and strategies to deal with the unprecedented challenges we all face.

Our experience comes from running The Delivery Club for 3 years. The club is structured around face to face workshops hosted at members offices in, to date, the London area. In the last few days we have switched to teleconferencing as you might imagine. Details of who the members are is provided below as well as information about the club. Our mission has been to:

provide members with the opportunity to share, learn and grow in a challenging, safe and trusting environment with a diverse group of like-minded peers from other industries, gaining personal knowledge-wealth.

We hope that we can continue to fulfil this over the coming months.

We would like to offer the same support to you through a series of teleconferences, the first of which will be on the 26th March, details below. To gain value from the call you will typically be accountable for your organisation’s internal change capability and performance and / or the product or service delivery of your organisation. You may have responsibility overall for the success of projects, programmes or portfolios for a division or for your organisation. Typical role titles may include Head of Projects, Programmes, Delivery, Capability, Change, Transformation or Strategy Execution but we are conscious this is unique to each organisation. Given your role you may have no one to share your concerns or run ideas by – hopefully the calls may go some way to alleviate this.

On the 26th March at 1pm you will have the opportunity to share and hear from your peer group. A series of calls is planned, this being the pilot. We will hopefully learn how best to structure and provide value to those of you taking the time to call in. Jonathan and I believe that there would be real value for people to have the opportunity to share their experiences and to hear what is happening in other organisations and what decisions are being taken from a delivery perspective. Hearing from others how they personally, as a delivery function and as an organisation are reacting and then reflecting on the applicability to your own context could be extremely beneficial.

There is no pre-registration but it would be extremely helpful if you were able to add a note below saying that you plan to attend. Please note there is a limit of 100 people on the call. Please Like and feel free to Share this offer.

We look forward to speaking to you on the 26th.

Donnie and Jonathan

Zoom Meeting Details - 13.00-14.00 Thursday 26th March

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Details of The Delivery Club

Strategy for 2020

·      Part 1; theme based facilitated conversations to inform and stimulate discussion followed by the opportunity for members to share their challenges and gain a fresh perspective

·      Part 2; Use the strengths of the collective group to enhance personal and other’s ability to tackle delivery challenges

Members

Are leaders accountable for their organisation’s internal change capability and performance and / or product or service delivery

·      The value to members - share and enhance your knowledge, build your network, collaborate on interesting projects and increase your personal value in the marketplace.

·      The value to a member’s organisation - gain insights and examples of good practice from other organisations thereby improving the delivery of core products and services

Club Principles

·      Informality in how the events are structured and members wish to engage

·      Diversity in who we are, the experience and expertise we have, the opinions held and the topics discussed

·      Openness to share, be challenged and collaborate

·      Value add to members assessed after each meeting using MeetingQuality

·      Integrity of members creating a trusted environment where exposing potentially sensitive issues is accepted and acknowledged

Members quotes:

·      “how to deal with issues and ensure I am current – the Club provides really useful nuggets of information and advice”

·      “offering an issue and hearing various people’s thoughts on possible solutions”

·      “the diversity of ideas, which is one of the strengths of the club”

Aims for 2020

·      To further diversify and increase the membership, adding new perspectives and value to the community.  Introduce Peer Assist to support leaders in other organisations resolve delivery related challenges.

·      Introduce a similar number of shorter virtual meetings

·      Complete The Delivery Manifesto which will capture members insights and case studies

·      Embrace the feedback from MeetingQuality to monitor the value add, improve the events and build better relationships

·      Consider running an open paid seminar sharing the insight from 2020 / previous years

·      Investigate feasibility of commercial opportunities for members.

Additional information on meeting hosting, topics and members

Five face-to-face meetings held per year hosted on a round robin basis at members offices. Meetings have been hosted by QinetiQ, Ofgem, Mace, Deliotte's, Google, Thomson Reuters, Ramboll, Think Anlaytics, HSBC, RSM and the Institution of Civil Engineers. A joint event is held each year with acumen7, a sister network of Business Leaders.

Themes are chosen by the members in the broad context of leadership, strategy execution, portfolio, programme, project and change management and transformation. Specific topics have included Agile, Human Learning, Digitalisation, Portfolio Management 2.0, PMO, Productivity, Future Leaders (with guests), Future of Work and PM, Preparing for Brexit, Entrepreneurship, Transforming Infrastructure Performance, Maturity, Dealing with Uncertainty and the Gig Economy.

Founded in 2017 by Donnie MacNicol with a core group of delivery leaders, including existing members Jes Newman (General Manger, Wipro), David Glazier (Global Major Projects & Project Management Consultancy Director, Ramboll) and Julie Black (Programme Director, Ofgem), and supported in its running by Jonathan Norman. Other member organisations include the Home Office, Jacobs, Parliamentary Digital Service, UK Power Networks, UK Space Agency, Crown Commercial Service and the Major Projects Association.