Transcript of Core Tips: Openness.
Tony Penna: In regards to openness, it's the ability to be able to to to be transparent about what you're doing and that requires a level of integrity. So that at the end of the day you're not going to be a perfect person in delivering the goods, you're going to make mistakes, but own up to them and understand that.
And you're only going to be able to do that if it's a safe environment in that you know that the people around you would accept that at times if you make it an error, that you will work with them to fix it.
But on the other side of it, if you achieve a lot then you should be valued for it. The challenge within a bureaucracy given the value proposition of what we manage is that some things are shrouded around confidentiality. It's an enormous privilege to work within the Ministry. It's an enormous privilege to be able to influence decision-making around government and we should never take that lightly.
And so in the context of openness you have to be very wise and what can or can't be released and so in I look at it from the point of view of openness is that that you feel free to be able to express yourself in a in a respectful way to others in regards to anything that you're doing and the response should be respectfully provided back to you.
So for me, openness requires a safe environment so that you can challenge and you can ask the questions and in that environment openness is fantastic, but in the release of information confidential, confidentiality and privacy, understanding our role in decision-making how we work with the government is really important.
