Care

How PDS women are celebrating International Women's Day

PDS, 8 March 2019 — Care, Confidence, Women in digital

Four women from PDS have written about how they're celebrating International Women's Day, what it means to them, and why #BalanceForBetter is so important.

What we did with our team health survey results

Glenn Scott, 27 February 2019 — Care, Collaboration culture, Continuous iteration

One of our director's objectives is to have a healthy and happy team. One way we do this is with a team health survey so now that we've reviewed the results, what are we doing with them?

Say it with…a card

Jenny Radcliffe, 30 January 2019 — Care, Collaboration culture, Simplicity

Following on from Dan Cook’s blog post about healthy and happy teams, we’re trialling something new in the digital portfolio team. A new way to say thank you and well done to colleagues who have gone above and beyond.

Showing that we care

Dan Cook and John Box, 25 January 2019 — Care, Cultural values, Open

We have four cultural values here in PDS: care, community, curiosity, and confidence. We recently held a cultural values day which focused on the care value. Dan Cook and John Box have blogged about why we did it and what it involved.

Flexible working: studying while you work

Helen Thomas and Lorna Kennedy, 23 November 2018 — Care, Confidence, Women in digital

Helen Thomas and Lorna Kennedy both recently completed their studies and they both worked in PDS while they were studying. In this blog post, they talk about the challenges and how studying while working was more rewarding than they imagined.

Solving problems with Parliament’s Digital Support Desk

Abigail Prempeh-Brown, 11 October 2018 — Care, Experts in what we do, Start with user needs

Service desk analyst Abigail Prempeh-Brown has worked in various roles. Find out how the service desk fixes problems and how Abigail’s background as a librarian and mental health support worker helps her provide excellent customer service.

Building a healthy and happy team

Dan Cook, 1 October 2018 — Care, Continuous iteration, Experts in what we do

Team health has become Dan Cook's passion in the past few years. In this post, he talks about how happy and healthy teams deliver at the peak of their capacity and capabilities and how they can be incredible things to be a part of.