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Title: LEADERSHIP FOR MODERN LOCAL GOVERNMENT


1
LEADERSHIP FOR MODERN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
  • John Jackson
  • Capacity Building International

2
BE TRUE TO YOURSELF PEOPLE WILL FOLLOW THE
TRUTH
  • LEADERSHIP
  • Challenge
  • Characteristics
  • Context

3
LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE IS NOT ABOUT DRIVING FROM
THE TOP
  • What is the difference?
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Leadership

4
Power is mastery, not domination
  • Power source from position
  • Role
  • Use of coercion
  • Use of reward
  • Power source from self
  • Expertise
  • Personal qualities
  • Connection abilities

5
Power is desirable, dangerous, risky
  • Power is not leadership
  • Power resides in relationships
  • Power can generate power
  • Power can generate powerlessness
  • Power is unequally distributed
  • What is your preferred source of power?

6
LEADERSHIP MEANS RISK
  • COURAGE ..balanced with CAUTION
  • ? ?
  • not not
  • ? ?
  • RECKLESSNESS COWARDICE
  • What is your approach to managing risk?

7
Hierarchy and bureaucracy do not release the
energies of staff
  • LEADERSHIP PROMOTES VALUES
  • Learning from mistakes
  • Sharing good practice
  • Valuing diversity
  • Challenging existing practice
  • Asking penetrating questions

8
THE ORGANISATION ICEBERG
  • processes roles and titles
  • policies procedures structures
  • ABOVE
  • BELOW
  • styles values personal aspirations
  • loyalties relationships networks
  • hopes rumours attitudes feelings

9
LEADERSHIP MEANS INNOVATION
  • Supporting managers in taking risks
  • Gathering new ideas
  • Using diverse teams
  • Learning from mistakes
  • Sharing knowledge of what works
  • Challenging colleagues about practices
  • Appreciating the efforts of others

10
LEADERSHIP MEANS PARTNERSHIP
  • Bringing in new expertise
  • Extending range of services
  • Raising quality of services
  • Making better use of specialised knowledge
  • Ensuring local services are joined up
  • Tackling tough challenges
  • Managing demand better

11
LEADERSHIP IS ABOUT ENGAGING INTERNAL AND
EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS
  • What is their view of the issue?
  • What would they like to see in the future?
  • Are you ready to face this challenge?

12
FROM LEADERSHIP TO FACILITATION
  • Leadership is
  • Taking a long term view
  • Pointing out the challenge to be faced
  • Facilitation is
  • Helping people to see their own future
  • Relating the challenge to individuals in their
    work and attitudes

13
WHAT IS THE PRACTICE OF LEADERSHIP?
  • Exercising power
  • Giving purpose
  • Living with risk
  • Networking
  • Facilitating
  • Challenging the status quo
  • Harnessing energy

14
LEADING YOURSELF
  • When things go wrong, a good leader looks in the
    mirror. When things go well, a good leader looks
    out of the window

15
Fish rots from the head
  • Modern political power is not about being there
    but about doing something
  • Men see things as they are and ask why? I
    dream of things that never were and say why
    not?
  • There go my people I must follow them, for I am
    their leader
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