Marching to the beat of someone else's drum on the Future Leaders Scheme (FLS)
Credit: Winter Sun. Ryo Takemasa
“Future Leaders Scheme is building a diverse, robust pipeline to senior roles. You’re part of the high potential, talented civil servants who can get there.”
The Future Leaders Scheme (FLS) is one of the UK Civil Service’s Accelerated Development Schemes, aimed at high-potential grade 6 and 7 civil servants. You can read my previous reflections on the scheme here:
Deep fault lines on the Future Leaders Scheme (FLS)
Hello dear reader,
I’m ready to talk now. I wasn’t before. But I’m ready now.
I can’t help but feel the pull of something different, something more village minded and deserving of my time. I have an interest in finding out what makes others tick, what gifts they have to share, and what hopes they have for the future.
Instead, I’m constantly trying to put together the many pieces of this story that are unfolding. The road has been challenging and the bumps often navigated alone. Perhaps there are things that are only understood retrospectively when many years have passed, and the story has ended.
For now, while the story continues, the only thing I can do is tell it as it develops, bifurcates, and knots around itself. And it must be told many times, in many different words, and from many different angles, before anything can be understood.
So, here goes.