Dr. Barrie Kennard

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Dr. Barrie Kennard

• Head of Academic Standards Quality Assurance

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• How does LMD look from the outside?

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• How does it feel to those involved?

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Moving Leadership Management Development (LMD)
out of the classroom into the workplace
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Theory Vs Practice
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Theory and Practice
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Employed Status Learners are a completely
different proposition to traditional learners
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The Private sector is the destination of choice
for organisations seeking LMD
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WHY ???
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HEIs and the inability to communicate
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• HEIs need to ensure that

The right people interface with business
The chosen people want to do the job
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It cannot all be the fault of the educators
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Commonly held beliefs
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1. Everyone wants to be a manager
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2. Anyone without management aspirations lacks
drive
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3. The person with the best sales figures will
make a good manager
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Stumbling Blocks (1)
1. Exams
2. Work based projects
3. The willingness of the learners to participate
4. Buy in from employers
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Stumbling Blocks (2)
5. Providers / deliverers
6. Text
7. Inappropriate learners
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Suggestions for change
Customise programmes for Organisations
Innovate!
Demand led NOT supply led
Greater awareness of contemporary issues facing
leaders
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Romantic notion
Bold leader taking risks unafraid of failure
To boldly go where no-one ..... etc
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• Iconoclastic view

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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the
passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a
leader if they saw one.
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If they had the bad luck to come across a
leader, they would find out that he might demand
something from them, and this impertinence
would put an abrupt and indignant end to their
wish for his return. - Lewis H. Lapham
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Risk averse leadership
Keep your head below the parapet
Do nothing that could come back at you
No risk no failure no blame
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• RISK AVERSE

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• RISK AVERSION

When a young woman was rescued from drowning in
the Clyde by the Glasgow Humane Societys George
Parsonage, she was even luckier than she knew.
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According to Parsonage and an eyewitness,
Strathclyde Fire and Rescue service attempted to
have him arrested to stop him wading to her
assistance when strong currents prevented their
lifelines or his boat being deployed effectively.

When you are conducting a rescue you have to do
it within the safety threshold, commented the
group commander, while declining to discuss the
specifics.
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• LITIGIOUS SOCIETY

No week passes without someone attempting to
acquire compensation from some incident or
accident which was either partly down to their
own stupidity or the result of a calculated risk
they had chosen to take as a fully paid-up adult.

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• LITIGIOUS SOCIETY

The Winnebago the sat nav
This is a navigation device only and is not
intended to replace the driver
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Children enjoying donkey rides on the beach at
Bognor Regis are now forced to wear hard hats.
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Hertfordshire County Council dictates that
parents must not provide their children with
goggles for swimming lessons in case they
spring back and hit the little darlings in the
face.
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To burn or not to burn, that is the question,
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• BLAME CULTURE WORKPLACE

The whole compensation culture hangs on the idea
that we can behave as badly as we like, be
totally irresponsible and ignore common sense and
then when things go wrong we can blame it all on
someone else
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• ALTERNATIVE VOCABULARY

Body Odour
Non discretionary
fragrance Broken Home

Dysfunctional family Fail

Achieve a deficiency Foreign Food

Ethnic cuisine Unemployed

Involuntarily leisured Prostitute

Sex
worker Gossip
Speedy transmission of near-factual information
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• SOLUTION 1

Do nothing that could lead to any sort of
recrimination
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• SOLUTION 2

Say nothing that could lead to any sort of
recrimination
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• SOLUTION 3

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• FINAL SOLUTION

Give it a go
No Blame culture
Allow Leaders to fail at tasks with no fear of
reprisal
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• Leadership Management Wales

LMW.org.uk
Barrie Kennard kennardb2_at_cf.ac.uk