DTL Community Hub/Comm Program Updates
Community & Program Updates
DTL Community Hub
Update: Publication of the GC Digital Talent Strategy
The GC Digital Talent Strategy is now published on canada.ca. Built on the GC Digital Standards, the Strategy took shape through extensive consultation across the federal public service. A big thank you to the Digital community for providing thoughtful feedback on all iterations over the past months!
Aligned with Canada's Digital Ambition, the strategy focuses on Strategic Theme 4: a structural evolution in funding, talent, and culture. It prioritizes supporting fully digital delivery through managing a government-wide culture shift (Priority 4.1) and building a workforce for digital-first delivery (Priority 4.2).
Advancing the Strategy: Implementation roadmap with performance indicators for the Strategy is currently in development. Similar to the renewed GC Data Strategy, it will include actions, sub actions, and leads. The first iteration will be shared on GCxchange in the coming months for your contribution.EXposition: Unlocking Your Potential
The sixth annual interdepartmental digital talent management roundtable discussions on EX-01 to EX-03 took place on December 5, 6 and 7, 2023. Bringing together 40 organizations, more than 105 nominees were identified for succession or mobility placements as these roundtable discussions identify potential leaders and offer movement as development opportunities.
The EX-03 talent management discussions, co-hosted by Len Bastien (title) and Jacquie Manchevsky, ADM of Data Centres Services at SSC; were crucial to the digital community in helping to promote talent across the Government of Canada and collectively contributing to the career development and succession planning enterprise wide.
Congratulations to the 2023 nominees and a thank you to the Digital Talent Management Team for organizing these successful virtual events!Post-Event Recap: FWD50
FWD50, the annual gathering of digital government and public sector innovation, took place from November 6-8, 2023, in Ottawa, ON, and online.
The Office of the Chief Information Officer, in collaboration with partners such as the Canada School of Public Service, Government of British Columbia, Government of Alberta, and Code for Canada, hosted two insightful sessions during the event.
During the full-house workshop, Practices and tools to attract, retain, and develop talent, speakers explained their tried-and-true best practices to help ~75 participants build digital talent in their own organizations.
Participants reflected on their own positive recruitment, retention, and development experiences, and some highlights include:
- Recruitment: Understanding the mission and the impact of their role, easy and transparent hiring, modern tools
- Retention: Professional development, lateral mobility, interesting and meaningful problems to solve, talent management, career ownership
- Development: Sufficient time to learn and apply new skills, mentorship, experiential or on-the-job learning
Digital Community Support
Sophie Martel, Assistant Deputy Minister at the Department of National Defence, delivered sessions on “Positive Intelligence” to over 250 Talent Management Nominees. Martel will continue this series with seven sessions concluding in April 2024. Coaching sessions for the June Talent Management cohort are in the works with Beth Ford, a certified IT coach within the Office of the Chief Information Officer of Canada.Digital Community Mentorship Program
A new promotional video detailing the Digital Community Mentorship Program is now available on GCXchange. Over 20 Digital Leaders (EX-03 to EX-05) are actively signing up to mentor the 4th cohort of EX-01 and EX-02 of the Digital Community, currently undergoing onboarding.
