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Steve Garrett

@stevengarrett.bsky.social

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Usually 🏃‍♂️ and navigating 🚧 Data and digital with a dash of optimism

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Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I’d also be interested. I’m thinking a lot about grant giving and management which I think has some similarities.

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Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Did you make any decisions? I’m interested in this from the perspective of starting a blog.

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Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

We’re doing our best and keen to work with others. @simoneverest.bsky.social could be something we work with you and your team and some more of the DCMS family on?

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Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Reference should be restaurant 🤣 need to keep the food theme 🥗🥪

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Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

There was a great question about this on the day. Some great work by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais on Team Topologies was referenced. Perhaps a reference analogy will come in useful?

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Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Yup, keep your eyes peeled for the next one 👀

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Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Follow ups 👀 Read my blog post = the seed of the #SDinGov talk wearesportengland.org/2024/04/12/beware-of-the-team-doughnut ✅ Check you can map your individual involvement in a piece of work to @ewebber.bsky.social's Team Onion model. Teamonion.works 👋 Say hi if you're working on similar stuff

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Beware of the Team Doughnut

This blog post by Steve Garrett was adapted by Cassie Burgess and Simon Pang for the Service Design in Government, 2024 conference. Thank you to everyone who came to the talk. And sorry to those who w...

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Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

I 💛how we were able to share some of what Sport England has learnt since we've begun to organise teams around services pretty recently. Showing vulnerability in a space where others are facing similar challenges felt good. Turns out others are struggling too. Here’s how we’re fixing things.

screen grab of the slide showing how we’re trying to fix and avoid the Team Doughnut.

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Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

They gave 2 egs of where our team shapes became obstacles to delivering. In each case, we realised they more closely resembled doughnuts than the well-established Team Onion model created by @ewebber.bsky.social Eg1, supporters and collaborators spanning both roles + small core = doughnut shaped

screengrab of the slide we used to make the point that when supporters and collaborators span both roles and there's no core team, the team is doughnut shaped

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Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Last week, at @sdingov.bsky.social my brilliant Sport England colleagues @casseroleburgers.bsky.social and @simonpang.bsky.social gave a talk called Beware of the Team Doughnut 🍩 It's about the importance of team shape and why – when we didn't get that right – it was detrimental to our delivery.

photograph of Cassie and Simon presenting in front of a big screen showing the headline slide

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Steve Garrett @stevengarrett.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Let me know when you find out.

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