NAVY NEWS, AUGUST 2007 35
The Royal Navy writes on the issues affecting you
Let them
Telling the story of the RN today
know
THE Royal Navy Presentation Team given to private audiences such as
(RNPT) tours the UK telling the businesses, business clubs, societies,
just what
story of the ‘Royal Navy Today’ to the and universities.
public at some 100 events annually. As well as being informative,
The team’s aim is to raise levels the presentation is designed to be
of understanding of the Navy’s role entertaining, thought-provoking and
you think
TV licence
and its relevance to the UK and its an opportunity to speak frankly face-
citizens, particularly amongst leaders to-face with the RN.
in the business, industry, academic, The team is always looking for
campaign
Tell the Navy Board what you
civic and professional communities. opportunities to speak to appropriate
think!
The multimedia presentation lasts audiences.
The annual Continuous
30 minutes and gives a taste of the If you are interested in attending
Attitude Survey for 2007 will
Navy’s roles, from counter-narcotics to a presentation, inviting the team
is launched
shortly be distributed.
anti-terrorism, defence diplomacy to to visit your organisation or have
This will be your opportunity
disaster relief and crisis management contacts that you feel they should
TV LICENSING is launching
to tell senior management about
to high-intensity warfare. approach, visit www.royal-navy.
a new publicity campaign which
how you feel about life in the
The presentation is followed by mod.uk/rnpt, write to the RN
is rolling out to military bases
Royal Navy or Royal Marines.
a lively and candid question-and- Presentation Team, 11/12 Tedder
nationwide this month.
It covers such issues as:
answer session. Close, West End Road, Ruislip, HA4
In total, TV Licensing will
How satisfied are you with
Presentations invariably culminate 6NR or call on 0208 833 8020.
distribute 80,000 leaflets, 40,000
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your pay and benefits?
in a drinks reception where the public Watch Navy News got dates of
“homemover cards” and 8,000
How satisfied are you with
● The Royal Navy Presentation Team – from left, Mne Sean can discuss issues with the team. forthcoming presentations – the
posters, designed to help Service
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the way in which your career is
Ivey, Lt Emma Blackburn, Cdr Richard Buckland and LS Chris The presentation is not restricted team visits Dundee on September 25
personnel and their families to
managed?
Bourne to public events; presentations are and Dunfermline the following day.
know their legal requirements and
What do you thing about
the payment options available –
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lengths of deployments?
and how to avoid a £1,000 fine.
How is Service life affecting
The MOD published a Defence
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the amount of separation from
Information Notice (2006DIN02-
your home and family?
084) in March last year providing
How satisfied are you with the
guidelines on the legal obligations
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way the RN/RM is managed?
to have a valid TV licence and to
The 2006 survey found that The insider’s guide
remind units and establishments
“overall people were satisfied with
that it is MOD policy to give
security of employment, amount
escorted access for TV Licensing
of responsibility they are given and
sales staff and enforcement
the Armed Forces pension scheme.
officers when visits to MOD
“Personnel reported that they
establishments are requested.
are proud to be part of the RN
Simply put, all UK-based
or RM, they have pride in their
Service personnel living in
uniform and believe they are
to Transformation
single living accommodation or
treated fairly.
service families accommodation
“However, we found that you
(including foreign nationals
were very dissatisfied with the x- SINCE Fleet Transformation a tricky system has now been
attached to UK Armed Forces
factor, the quality of equipment
started in August 2006
streamlined into a one-stop shop
or based in the UK) need to
and the amount of over-stretch.
considerable work has
with a single career manager
be covered by a valid licence,
“Royal Marines reported
taken place to review Fleet
allocated to each specialisation
whether programmes are received
that they were dissatisfied with who understands exactly what
via a TV or other devices such as a
earnings and allowances, and did
processes to improve
people require to progress their
computer or mobile phone.
not believe they reflect their true
support of the Front Line.
career and get on.
TVs in communal areas, messes
worth.”
But what is Fleet
The bottom line here is that
or clubs are covered by different
The 2007 survey has been
Transformation, and haven’t
while the new process benefited the
rules.
revised to make sure that we are
we been here before with Fleet Even if personnel have a TV
asking the right questions – the
First and the merger of 2SL and
help people understand that
individual, the sense of satisfaction
licence at their home address, if
ones that our policy makers want
CINCFLEET staffs?
Transformation is not about
for all those involved in providing
they live-in and have a TV in their
the answers to and on the issues
The man with the answers
manpower cuts and change for
that support now feel cannot be
room, they need to be covered by
that are important to your life in
is Rear Admiral Mike Kimmons
change’s sake.
underestimated; a win all round.
a valid licence.
the Service.
who heads up the Fleet
It is about being smarter, doing
Another more operationally-
If personnel relocate they will
It has also been aligned with
Transformation project, and
things better, being more efficient
focused example is the
improvement to how we learn from
need to inform TV Licensing
the other Services to carry more
Navy News visited him to find and recognising value especially in
our experiences on the front line.
of their new address to remain
weight on big issues, and has
out what is going on. our people.
Previously lessons from
correctly licensed, either on www.
been renamed the Armed Forces What is Fleet Transformation
To be honest, I expect people
operations and deployments took
tvlicensing.co.uk/moving or by
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Continuous Attitude Survey and why are we doing it?
to be wary of change, but as
far too long to reach the various
calling 0870 241 5590.
The results are used to Fleet Transformation is about
Transformation achieves greater
training establishments and
If posted abroad, personnel may
inform policy to make sure that improving the way Fleet does its
successes and people see the
inform training; this was caused
be eligible for a refund.
when decisions are made about business, reviewing what we do,
improvements for themselves, I
by a clumsy and time-consuming
personnel issues, the attitudes how we do it and looking to
am confident that those sitting
bureaucratic process.
and opinions of those on the front continually improve.
on the fence will understand that
Looking at the process
Phone link
line, and those supporting the Our business is getting the best
Fleet Transformation is in the
objectively, with all the right people
front line are taken into account. capability to the front line, and
individual’s interest.
in the room, soon cut through the
The findings are reported to our men and women working
Good news spreads fast!
red tape and now we have a process
saves cash
● Rear Admiral Mike Kimmons
the Navy Board and are published there need the finest support.
You spoke of Transformation that delivers operational lessons to
Clearly the person closest
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A PRIVATE wire link between
in the House of Commons library, We reviewed how we were doing
to the problem knows what is
successes but what have the those that need them now and
Vodafone and the Global
as well as used by desk officers to our business after Fleet First and
required to fix it, and that is why
improvement events achieved we have already seen benefits to
Telephone Network (GTN)
shape and inform a whole myriad the staff merger and realised
Transformation’s main focus is
and what’s in it for the sailor on ongoing front line operations.
is helping drive down defence
of personnel projects and strategic the numbers of people working
‘command pull’.
the Front Line?
telephone bills.
reviews.
marina Can you tell us where we
in rear support considerably
Command pull is about the
When Transformation began a
can get regular, up-to-
The link goes through the
Last year’s survey was used outnumbered those engaged in
front-line commanders being
lot of the work was at a necessarily
date information on Fleet
Circuit Switched Service (CSS)
as evidence in key pay reviews, daily front-line operations and
closely involved in defining what
high level; the big parts of the naval
Transformation?
and means that if you prefix a
including the RM Financial that the gap was going to widen
we need to deliver operational
jigsaw had to be put in place before
Keeping everyone informed
military phone number with 9532
Retention Incentive, which was over the next few years.
success so that the correct
we could start to delve down into
on what is happening in
you can access the CSS from a
awarded, the review of the x- In addition, defence has been
capabilities are prepared by Fleet.
the detail and it wasn’t easy to see
Transformation is important.
Vodafone business mobile phone.
factor, the Strategic Remuneration subject to huge financial pressure
where the benefits were. Calls will be charged at a
Review, and the AFPRB. in recent years and we knew we
So how exactly are Fleet’s
The recently-issued 2-6 DVD,
marina
When the key areas of Fleet Vodafone to PSTN tariff of 3p
The survey will be distributed would have to be smarter about
processes reviewed?
with its Personnel Support
activity had been identified we put
Brief notes, has a section on
per minute.
by ACET on behalf of DASA how we spent our budget.
Our first task was to agree
some flesh on the bones and the An advantage of using this
to a random sample of people Before we started to Transform
on exactly what was required to
Transformation which everyone
various staffs have been working method is that when staff are out
between July and September. last year, Fleet’s processes were
achieve Fleet’s aims.
should make sure they see.
hard this year to realise change
on detached duty they do not
So if you receive a copy in complex and inefficient; there
Four broad areas of activity were
I send a weekly email update to
and improve our processes.
always have STD codes to hand,
the post, please take the time to
was duplication, decisions took identified; Capability (including
all units to let people know what
For instance, the Manpower and
so it cuts the need to go through
complete it, as the more people
too long owing to long command Sustainability), Manpower and
is going on; if you haven’t seen a
Training area have been looking at
an operator.
that complete it, the more weight
chains and bureaucracy. Training, Management and Advice,
copy, see your Divisional Officer
The calls are relatively
the results will carry.
Everyone realised this and were and Generate and Employ.
improving the career management or Line Manager, and if you still
inexpensive, and the numbers are
Completed responses are
getting very frustrated. After this the real work began
structure for junior and senior get no joy drop me a line at mike.
easy to identify on bills as they all
analysed by researchers and not
These are the main reasons we are and is continuing now.
Marines and sailors. kimmons286@mod.uk and I will
start with a 9.
seen by the chain of command,
conducting Fleet Transformation, This is when the ‘bottom up’
Essentially, what was once get you up to speed!
so remain anonymous.
and this review of the way we approach comes into its own, with
A summary of the results will
do our business is crucial to everyone from killicks to admirals
be published later in the year in
overcoming such frustration. becoming engaged in a series of
Navy News and the Globe and
So we are using a ‘bottom up’ five day improvement events across Keep abreast of legislation
Laurel, and the full reports with
approach, which means people the four areas of Fleet activity.
be published on the RN web.
who really understand what is Everyone involved looked
For more information contact
required are leading the redesign objectively at their process and
Calling all policy-makers. of useful info about what has provided for non-DII users
Julia Carden, the HR Research
and making recommendations to who does what.
Like it or not, there is no happened and what is being and can be accessed at www.
Manager, on 93832 5495 (BT
senior management rather than Then the team agrees where
escaping the fact that in today’s planned; it is also a gateway dglslegdatabase.dii.r.mil.uk/
02392 625495) or email her on
the other way around. there’s duplication, waste or
world there is no shortage of to many other relevant areas For further information
Julia.Carden411@mod.uk
This empowerment is crucial inefficiency, and so a more efficient
laws and law-makers, new rules of proposed developments in contact Anna Jean; DGLS-
to the success of Transformation way of working can be realised.
and regulations. public policy. Sec2a, 9621 85758, or James
It’s your 2.6
as it allows the ‘junior’ staffs, who This benefits Fleet as the tasks
Enter the MOD Legislation The Database has been set Longworth; DGLS-Sec2b, 9621
really understand how we currently required are completed more
Database – an up-to-date up by the Directorate General 80377
conduct business and will manage effectively while the individual
corporate tool to ensure your Legal Services (DGLS) and
NEED to get your message Fleet in the future, to own the benefits because they can see how policy complies with the law. is available via the Defence
across to the rest of the RN? processes; they can shape their own their contribution is linked to Check it out regularly to keep Intranet – Applications & Tools
To feature in 2-6 contact Lt future and avoid the frustrations achieving the aim. abreast of emerging legislation – Legal, for those policy leads
Cdr Dave Joyce at Fleet Media that we, myself included, have However, there can be resistance from Westminster, Scotland, on DII who want to find out
Ops on 93832 8809 or Lt Cdr endured in the past! to change. Wales, Northern Ireland and more.
Harvey Burwin at DPR(N) on Transformation has focused on A main challenge as the the European Union. An Access version of the
9621 85984. listening to the Front Line. Transformation Chief is to It is more than just pages Legislation Database has been
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