Leadership
The ability to establish vision and direction, to influence and align others towards a common purpose, and to empower and inspire people to achieve success.
Leadership Resources
Resources include papers, videos, research summaries and good practice documents produced by authors from across the HS2 Family to capture learning, good practice and innovation from the HS2 programme
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Monitoring completion health to drive performance and provide scheduling certainty
The EWC south programme of works was in a position where the majority of physical works were finished, but only a handful of projects were formally completed. In order to give certainty of compliant and timely completion for the remaining projects on the programme, a completion health tracker and monthly review panel was established. The…
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Managing leavers to mitigate the impact to project delivery
After the peak of works, many Costain Skanska joint venture (CSJV) team members were offered roles with follow-on High Speed 2 (HS2) contracts which delivered on career progression and job security. The knowledge and experience gained on the Enabling Works Contract (EWC) made these individuals highly sought after. The impact on CSJV resulted in prematurely…
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Planning for a smooth and finite transition
The Transition stage of the project lifecycle is the change of state from delivery to operation, which in context for the Enabling Works Contract (EWC) South, relates to successfully enabling the High Speed Two Limited (HS2) scheme’s follow-on contractors. This paper describes the EWC South Transition plan and the three phases of its structured transition…
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Capturing operational lessons learnt through focused workshops
This paper shares a good practice approach to capturing lessons learnt from work packages which has been used effectively and matured by the Enabling Works Contractor on the southern section of High Speed Two (HS2). It is relevant to others working on complex projects or programmes of work where commonalities in learning can be captured…
