Agenda

• What is Strategic Leadership?

• Opportunities for Saskatchewan Municipalities

• How Municipal Leaders See Leadership

• Going Forward

What is Strategic Leadership?

What is “strategy”

• Big

A vision of something large (important, valued)

• Specific

Goals, timeline, outcomes, milestones

• Actionable•

Allows you to align what happens now with what’s intended for the future

What is “leadership”

• Focus

Maintaining a vision

• Movement

Being at the head of the pack

• Mentoring•

Keeping the pack together

Leading Strategically – 1• Not about where you are

Not management of the status quo (good manager + representative)

• About where you plan to be

Leading to something new (change)

Find the strategic vision – ask:o Status quo ok for our long-term future?o If not, what kind of future do we want?o What do we have to do differently to get

to that future vision? (strategies)

Make it clear, specific, strongo Goal + Timeline + Benefits

Leading Strategically – 2

• Maintain the visiono Commitment and repetitiono Focus on the benefits

• Manage towards the visiono Evaluate choices – use the vision as

criteria for decision makingo Search for opportunities – proactively

advance your strategies

• Communicate the visiono Repetition – a vision needs

to be seeno Celebration – progress

revitalizes vision

Summary

• What is “Strategy”

o Big + Specific + Actionable

• What is “Leadership”

o Focus + Movement + Mentoring

• Leading Strategically

o Find the strategic visiono Make it clear, specific, strongo Maintain the visiono Manage towards the visiono Communicate the vision