My candidate statement for the Future Leaders Scheme (FLS)
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The is one of the Civil Service’s Accelerated Development Schemes, aimed at high-potential grade 6 and 7 civil servants.
The Future Leaders Scheme (FLS) is one of the Civil Service’s Accelerated Development Schemes, aimed at high-potential grade 6 and 7 civil servants. You can read more in this guidance note or via Civil Service Learning, Future Leaders Scheme. It ‘provides a leadership development curriculum, which supports civil servants in accelerating their development as well as learning more about their personal leadership effectiveness.’
I know several people from One Team Gov that have applied for the Future Leaders Scheme in the past few years. I facilitated the Exploring Future Leadership Discovery Workshop that was inspired by the Twitter discussion, following the results of applications to the scheme in 2018. The workshop was part of our work on exploring future leadership, which has been one of One Team Gov’s goals since One Team Gov Global, London (July 2018).
One Team Gov Exploring Future Leadership Blogroll
I ummed and ahhed about applying to the Future Leaders Scheme, before I decided to put down the suitcase of self-doubt and put my application in. Inspired by James Cattell (here), Amanda Smith (here), ktmcneil (here), and James Kemp’s (here) openness in sharing their Future Leaders Scheme applications, I am sharing my candidate statement. I have been meaning to publish this for a while. So, here goes nothing.
You should cover the following points in your response:
For me, every week is an exploration of how systems thinking and leadership can be used to drive real, transformative change in public service.
I’ve always aspired to a public service career that crosses different boundaries, and have consistently taken on roles that allow me to push the boundaries of what is possible. This is something I’ll continue to do to achieve my potential.