Leadership through Best Practices Getting beyond Do as I say NOT as I do

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Leadership through Best Practices Getting
beyond Do as I say NOT as I do

• University of Guelph
• June 24, 2003
• Dr. Carolyn Bennett M.P.

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Nellie McClung

• Never retreat, never apologize,
• get the thing done
• and
• let them howl

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Nobody cares
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Underestimating our power. Well- meaning
fatalism. What can we do?
Michael Ignatieff
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Three mistakes

• Stop talking like victims
• Stop assuming we all agree
• Stop underestimating our strength.

Michael Ignatieff
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Feel our strength. We cant go back to some
nostalgic paradise in the past.
Michael Ignatieff
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Leadership

• Vision
• Values
• Risk taking

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Is Political Will another word for leadership
???

• Knowing whats best and just doing it ?
• or
• Listening and responding..
• or
• Values based, evidence based strategy, education
  and effectiveness

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Politics in Canada has always been the art of
making the necessary possible.
Peter C. Newman
Deciding what s necessary is political
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Good public policy is developed when the
policy-makers can keep in their minds eye the
people affected.
Jane Jacobs
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Good governance ursula franklin

• FAIR
• TRANSPARENT
• TAKES PEOPLE SERIOUSLY

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Prior learning !!

• My mother
• Camp ..
• Patient as Partner
• Feminist Theory
• Inclusive decision making
• Parenting
• the toughest job weve ever done
• Complexity Theory and Politics
• for every complex problem, there is a simple
  solution thats WRONG !!
• Role as M.P.

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My mother

• Florist, Artist
• Not a manager..my dad did that !
• 2 things
• Work hard
• Value your friends

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Sarah Berndhardt

• Life begets life.
• Energy begets energy.
• It is only through spending ones life that one
  gets rich.

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Camp

• Fairness
• natural leadership evident
• Good and Bad !!!
• Motivation ???
• Expected more of me than I expected of myself
• Friendship
• Loyalty vs principles..

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Patient as Partner

• Asking people whats wrong and listening what do
  they think it is ?
• Patient knows their body best
• As a professional
• know what you know, what you dont know, who
  when to ask for help
• Comment on the affect
• Evidence-based

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Sir William Osler

• it is a safe rule. That the best teaching is
  that taught by the patient himself
• Aequanamitas

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Non quo, sed quo modoWomens College Hospital

• Not what we do
• but how.
• Translation Patient centred care

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Feminist Theory

• Inclusive decision making
• Better results
• Horizontal structure
• Harvesting solutions from the trenches
• Good ideas can come from anywhere
• Attitude .

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lead
LEADER

LEADER
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Indira Ghandi

• There are 2 groups of people.
• Those that do the work ERES
• Those that take the credit
• Ive always preferred to be in the former group.
• Theres less competition !!!

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Parenting

• The toughest job weve ever done
• Barbara Colorosa
• Consequences
• convince me
• Have a plan !!

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Complexity Theory

• For every complex problem there is a simple
  solution --- that is WRONG !!!
• Simplefollowing a recipe
• Complicatedputting a rocket on the moon
• Complex. Raising a child

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Role of M.P.

• representative democracy
• Government vs. Parliament
• Relationship between citizens and theor
  representatives
• 225
• Democratic Deficit

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Process for Democratic Reform

• Electoral Reform
• Parliamentary Reform
• Party Reform
• Democracy between elections citizen engagement

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Stephen Coleman

• Parliaments role is emerging as that of a
  mediator between the voice of the public and
  government.

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Leadership vs. Management

• Education, cheerleading, persuasion,
  championing,inspiration
• vs.
• Control, command, supervision, intimidation

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Heroes COURAGE

• Pat Kelly
• Doris Anderson
• Rosemary Brown
• Monique Begin
• Ursula Franklin
• Paul Martin

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Paul Martin

• Inclusive decision-making
• Red Book 93
• Pre-Budget Consultations
• Calling out
• relevant and responsive

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Changing Context

• Civic literacy..decline of deference
• Expectations of Accountability
• Receptivity to Candour
• Decreased appetite for gotcha debating society
• Increased respect for skills that actually get
  things doneconsensus.

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CYNICISM
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Motivation and Incentives

• The folly of rewarding
• A
• while hoping for
• B

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Perfectionists
The enemy is ourselves We cant let the desire
for perfect get in the way of good. Le mieux
est lenemie du bien.
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Activists . 2 kinds

• THOSE ACTIVELY WORKING FOR CHANGE
• THOSE ACTIVELY WORKING TO PRESERVE THE STATUS QUO

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test

• What did you think when you saw this picture ??

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pick one.

• Looks Ok to me ( pinocchio moment !)
• Shocked and appauled !!
• unfortunate optic for the women of Canada

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Absent real leadership,political will
magically arrives with increased civic literacy
and efficacy.
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Species at Risk

• It is not the strongest of the species
  that survives, not the most intelligent, but the
  one most responsive to change.
  Charles Darwin

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Best practices wise and wonderful

• Wisdom
• having made all the mistakes but
• learned from them
• A Complex Adaptive System !!

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Barbara Rogers

• Physical and mental energy come from feeling in
  control of your life, having real choices and
  being involved with others to find ways of
  organizing for a change for the better.