Hello PPMA friends

Here’s the second in our series of 4 questions for the winners of our PPMA Talent Programmes from Emily Drake. Emily is Head of Payments, Systems and Registrars at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council and the joint winner of our Peer into The Future programme 2020.

• What has been the biggest lesson you have learnt from your career so far?

It’s a really good idea to move around the business to get a different perspective on HR/OD from the operational side.  It helps you to empathise with what other managers are dealing with in their day job and become well rounded as a professional.

• If you were Chief Executive of your organisation what one change would you make (in an ideal world!)

We are very lucky to have a personable and approachable chief executive who really does value the organisation’s people and their views and opinions, regularly reaching out for individual ideas and feedback.  If I was CX I would definitely continue that legacy and would challenge myself to meet a different employee on a regular basis to understand their role, achievements, ideas and challenges.  I think that would be a great connector throughout the organisation and keep me in touch with the day to day things that affect our people.

• What one superpower would you like to have to make people’s lives better.

I would love to have the power to fly…..then as a little pick me up when people are feeling down I would whisk them into the skies and let them see the beautiful world below and I bet that would bring a smile to their face!

• If you were able to give your 18 year old self one piece of advice today what would it be?

Don’t worry about what other people think of you – as long as you are kind to yourself and others you can’t go far wrong.

As part of our recent Virtual Conference we asked all of the Peer into the Future finalists to record a short video talking about the personal legacy they each were asked to prepare as part of the programme…and here is Emily sharing hers.

Thanks to Emily for her thought provoking replies to our questions. Over the coming weeks we’ll be posting the answers to these questions from our other Talent Programme winners, so watch out for those. Applications for the 2021 cohorts will be opening soon – so if you’d like more information then contact Grace at admin@ppma.org.uk

Dear PPMA colleagues and friends

We’re delighted that over 200 people are already registered for our PPMA Virtual Conference on 15^th and 16^th September. You still have time to book – registration closes on Thursday September 10^th so you still have plenty of time. You can find out more about virtual conference here.

We’re also really pleased that we’re honouring the PPMA Annual Excellence in 2020 awards programme. The quality of our entrants was really fabulous this year and we have a great virtual schedule for you starting on Monday 31^st August.

From the 31^st August to Thursday 16^th September we will be announcing our category winners. At 10 am each day we will be sharing the category shortlist on social media. And at 4pm we will be announcing the winner.

We’re publishing the schedule for you now so that you can make sure you have the key dates in your diary.

As ever, thank you to our sponsors and judges for supporting our awards. And thank you of course to all of you who have taken the time to enter.

Just as a heads up, we’ll be releasing the PPMA Annual Excellence in People Management Awards 2021 immediately after Virtual Conference.

PPMA Virtual Awards Schedule