Leadership Development Programme for Students’ Unions Igniting The Talent Leadership Development Programme for Students’ Unions James Barrett Principal Consultant Cass Centre for Charity Effectiveness Intellectual leadership: developing talent, enhancing performance

This Session Background to the NUS SU Leadership Development Programme Centre for Charity Effectiveness This Session Background to the NUS SU Leadership Development Programme Explore your ideas about leadership Introduce the current Programme Some tasters of what we cover on the Programme

Leadership Development Programme Vision “We want to create and support a generation of outstanding leaders working to transform the already impressive impact of the student union movement on civil society.”

Centre for Charity Effectiveness What is Management?

Centre for Charity Effectiveness What is Leadership?

Centre for Charity Effectiveness What is Leadership for?

Leadership Connection Centre for Charity Effectiveness Leadership Connection Who was the most inspiring leader you ever had? What was it that made the connection remarkable? How did you feel at the time?

Leadership Disconnection Centre for Charity Effectiveness Leadership Disconnection What’s the worst experience of leadership you ever had? What was it that made it so bad? How did you feel at the time?

Centre for Charity Effectiveness Leader as Visionary Organisations are in the business of bringing dreams to life – they speak to our hopes and aspirations. Leaders inspire their followers through compelling visions which span the present and the future. Gabriel & Hirschhorn (1999)

The Inspirational Leader A great leader can understand the unconscious motives of the followers better than the followers understand them themselves. Burns (1978) in Gabriel The employee who shares in the leader's dream invests his/her effort and time in the hope that the dream will come true.... While [at the same time] working to make the dream come true [is] exciting in its own right. Gabriel with Hirschhorn (1999)

Centre for Charity Effectiveness Your Context High turnover of elected officers – needs powerful working relationships to be formed quickly Movement’s highly ambitious vision – needs exceptional influencing skills across vast network of stakeholders Federal relationships are innately complex – requires balance of autonomy, strategy & brand protection Questioning authority.

Programme Design Launch Event – introduction / whole system exercise Centre for Charity Effectiveness Programme Design Launch Event – introduction / whole system exercise Individual Coaching - with 360 profiling, personal development planning Residential Programme - built around expert topics and a simulation Action Learning Sets and road trips Elective Programme – your topic choices, with accreditation option Closing Booster Event and evaluation

Developments More experiential events cause they really work Centre for Charity Effectiveness Developments More experiential events cause they really work 360 coaching and follow-up as the foundation stone - to keep up momentum and encourage greater self directed learning Build and extend peer learning and make more of visits Time away from operations Structured action research and feedback loops to fill gaps and connect across individuals, groups, tiers and system Growing the pool of alumni to transform the movement Operational context sometimes risks stifling development of strong leadership: Breadth vs depth, and activist culture Overwhelming operational commitments Not always a culture of follow-through Many campaigns and messages competing for attention Still need to establish a culture for self-directed learning, strategic personal development, and budgeting for SPD

Power & Experience: Focus Your Leadership Development Centre for Charity Effectiveness Empower Influence Low Experience High Experience Be curious, learn from others' experience. Build relations to test your ideas, engage others and build consensus for your plans. Seek stretching leadership opportunities to build your portfolio of skills and expertise. Establish connections with those in positions of power. Empower as much as possible, share knowledge and experience, and enable others to shine. Use your knowledge and experience to engage stakeholders and build dynamic alliances, and leverage maximum influence. Power & Experience: Focus Your Leadership Development High Positional Power Barrett, Copeman, MacWilliam 2014 (A Cass CCE collaboration developed at the March 2014 NUS SU LMDP Residential) Engage Stretch Low Positional Power

SCARF –Threat & Reward Factors Centre for Charity Effectiveness SCARF –Threat & Reward Factors Status Certainty Autonomy and choice Relatedness and connection Fairness   Infinite ways of feeling better than other people Positive feedback, reducing your status over others Improving our status relative to ourselves Unfairness can feel like betrayal – a primary threat Even worse if it goes unpunished Rock D (2009) Your Brain at Work

A Powerful Development Opportunity Centre for Charity Effectiveness A Powerful Development Opportunity You have a great deal in common and can learn so much from each other Join a stimulating group of learners across the movement who are flourishing as they learn together Take responsibility for your own L&D within a flexible and democratic framework Most powerful with other colleagues from your union The diversity that is the SU Movement gives a real impetus to leadership development Thought leadership is a key element of the programme - shape new thinking for the Movement.

Join Us! James Barrett Principal Consultant Centre for Charity Effectiveness Cass Business School 106 Bunhill Row London EC1Y 8TZ T: +44 (0) 207 040 8781 M: +44 (0) 7956 308324 E: james@consultjbarrett.com W: www.cass.city.ac.uk/cce