Post on 29-Dec-2015
Leading Learning Programme
Ian FytcheFebruary 2013
100 Flourishing Communities
Some Numbers
356 sq miles
91% agriculture and green space
106,000 people
100 communities
70million
350people
100 Flourishing
Communities
General LeadershipChallenges
Economy“the economy
will be permanently
smaller”
Public Finances“the deficit will take longer to
deal with”
Demographics“the population
continues to grow and we are living longer”
Climate Change“the climate is changing…we need to take action now”
Policy Change“everything is
changing – welfare, education, health,
planning, housing…”
Leadership Challenges
Improvement…Transformation“profound & radical change”
Leisure Service LeadershipChallenges
Participation Profile
A Broad Based Approach
Local Authority
Role Asset Management
Strategy – what is it for? Commis-
sioning
BudgetPressures
Some Thoughts on Leadership
Leadership – Starting Points?
Leading by numbers?
459,000,000
2,000+
…a lot of reading…
The Local Govt Chief Executive…
A role that defies definition…?
The most complex job…?
…a need for clarity…
Chief Exec in Local Government?
…the clerk…?
…the complaints officer…?
…the civic officer…?
…the country’s most widely read individual…?
…not THE ‘Leader’…!
“Make a list of the ten most important things you
can do, and start doing number one”
“If you can tell me something about
management that is worth hearing, I will send you a
check for $10,000”
Not Enough Hours?
Your Responsibility
Your Capacity
Leadership
Management
Administration
Short-term Long-term
Fin
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B
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Vision, Transformation +Partnership Development
Planning
Implementation
Leader…Manager…Administrator?
A
B
Manager to Leader
Management…Leadership
Stability…Change
Means…Ends
Does things right…Does the Right Things
A map…A Compass
How…Why
Responds…Pre-Empts
Meets objectives…Clarifies Values
Focus – Rule of ThumbVision
25%
Managing the organisation
50 %
Partnership Building25 %
A
B
5 Tips for Failure
Love your Bureaucracy
Say nothingto anyone
My team right of wrong
Be a controlfreak
Focus on the detail
5 Factors for Success
Engage, Commun
-icate, and do it
again!
Focus onImprovement
+ Trans-formation
Focus on vision
Balance ‘People’
and ‘Strategy’Innovate and
be prepared to take risks