Service to customers – individuals, businesses and communities – is a core value of the public sector. As a senior executive, you are responsible for promoting service in the culture and practices of your agency by:

• demonstrating personal conduct and decision making that focuses on delivering quality services to the people of NSW
• driving a systematic approach to service improvement in your agency, including its culture, systems, program design, workforce development, and measurement and use of customer impact and customer insights data
• adopting the NSW Customer Strategy and Customer Commitments within your agency and empowering employees to improve outcomes for customers
• assessing the benefits of moving your agency’s transactional services to the government’s Service NSW, the Government's one-stop digital, phone and shopfront service portal. More than 40 agencies use Service NSW to deliver more than 950 transactional services to the public.
• working with the Department of Customer Service on various initiatives to improve customer outcomes for millions of people and deliver efficiencies in how services are delivered through digital platforms.

You may be responsible for delivering specific service targets under key programs identified in the Premier’s Priorities.

Executive conduct and decision-making directly influences the extent to which the culture and practices in your agency - and the behaviour of your workforce - demonstrate the core value of Service. You should take a systematic approach to establishing and maintaining a service-focused agency and workplace, which includes embedding the priority of service in:

• governance
• leadership
• workplace culture
• positive and productive workplace practices and conduct
• employee recruitment, development and promotion
• customer and client service delivery standards.

Strengthening workplace diversity and inclusion within agencies is another important strategy you can use to improve the services your agency provides to the diverse range of communities across NSW.

The Customer Commitments represent the public sector's promise to customers. They have been developed using customer research and input from staff across the NSW Government. The Commitments give a clear picture of what customers should expect when receiving government services.

The Commitments provide a tool to align, engage and empower NSW Government employees behind customer service. 

For more information about the Customer Commitments see the NSW Customer Strategy.

The Government has established a one-stop digital, phone and shop front service, which more than 40 NSW government agencies use to deliver some 950 transactional services to the public.

These services include licence renewals; ticket, product and service purchases; and access to government reports.

Delivering services through Service NSW gives members of the public access to safe, efficient and easy-to-use services and is often more cost-effective for agencies than delivering the service separately.

For more information visit Service NSW.

The Department of Customer Service (DCS) commenced on 1 July 2019 and is responsible for expanding the Government's one-stop shop for customers government-wide and put NSW into a world-leading position in  customer service and digital technology for the next decade.

DCS has the authority to plan, prioritise, fund and drive digital transformation and customer service across every cluster in NSW Government. It is one of the most important functions of the government, as economies around the world continue to transition towards automation, artificial intelligence, robotics underpinned by customer insights.

For more information about DCS, visit the Customer Service website.

Many agencies have specific service delivery targets relating to the 14 Premier’s Priorities. These priorities include better customer service (Government made easy and world class public service); lifting education standards; keeping children safe; breaking the cycle (domestic violence, adult reoffending and homelessness); and improving the health system.

The Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC) seeks regular reports from agencies on their progress in implementing these targets, and this information is published on the NSW Government website.

For more information on the Premier's Priorities, visit the Premier's Priorities website.

• NSW Government key priorities
• Creating and deploying service delivery models
• Diversity and inclusion