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

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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