Sentence examples for secondments are from inspiring English sources

Good secondments are not easy to deliver.

An HMRC spokesman said: "HMRC gives careful consideration to the potential risks, as well as how to mitigate any potential conflicts of interest, before any such secondments are agreed.

Tom Burke, a former head of Friends of the Earth who worked as special adviser to several Conservative ministers, said: "The secondments are pernicious, but the real power is how they shape the discourse through the media – that is where their many lobbyists do their real work.

Tom Burke, a former head of Friends of the Earth who worked as special adviser to several Conservative ministers, said: "The secondments are pernicious, but the real power is how [the energy companies] shape the discourse through the media – that is where their many lobbyists do their real work.

These secondments are frequently seen as mentoring by the organisation.

"Companies such as the big six energy firms do not lend their staff to government for nothing – they expect a certain degree of influence, insider knowledge and preferential treatment in return," said Caroline Lucas, the Green party MP, when the secondments were revealed.

A Nigerian schoolboy he taught on a VSO secondment was kind; so were the women supporters of the miners' strikes he made films about.

The secondment was arranged at the request of the OECD, and I was officially under contract and employed by them from October 2002 through October 2003.

Why not change career permanently: Secondments can be very beneficial for both the secondee and for the sending and receiving organisations.

Secondments must be for the right reasons: Apologies for the football analogy, but if the purpose of 'loaning out' a developing player is to give them more experience and to allow them to bring back ideas to complement your own team, it is clearly a great idea.

The people we interviewed for our project (40 people working across local government in Birmingham and in national stakeholder organisations) felt that a better use of action learning, mentoring, work shadowing and secondments might be more effective than formal professional training in spreading these more generic skills.