Twenty top civil servants in the Home Office have been given top of the range iPods to provide them with lessons in leadership. In a pilot scheme the department has spent almost £9,000 on the gadgets as part of a “constant� way of finding new means to give staff training.... The pilot project, which started recently, allows 20 of the department’s most senior officials to use their iPods to view and listen to short lessons in leadership skills. Twenty iPods were bought at a cost of £8,800 including long-term service support which allows for updating the software. They provide officials with three- to five-minute video lessons in leadership provided by management experts.

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