1. Leading Learning Programme Ian Fytche March 2016

2. A little history…

3. 91% agriculture and green space
Some Numbers
356 sq miles
91% agriculture and green space
110,000 people
100 communities
£80,000,000
350 workforce
100
Flourishing
Communities

4. Culture, Sport and the Arts

5. Leadership – Starting Points?
Leading by numbers?
128,000,000
2,000+
The Local Govt Chief Executive…
A role that defies definition…?
The most complex job…?

6. Clarify Your Role …the clerk…? …the complaints officer…?
…the civic officer…?
…the country’s most widely read individual…?
…not THE ‘Leader’…!

7. What Really Matters to You?
“The powers of a first rate man and the creed of a second rate man”

8. Clarifying Vision

9. Leadership Challenges

10. “Context?” Public Finances Economy Climate Change Policy Change
Demographics

11. “There’s not enough time”
“If you can tell me something about management that is worth hearing, I will send you a check for $10,000”
“Make a list of the ten most important things you can do, and start doing number one”

12. “Everything is urgent”
Vision
25%
Managing the organisation
50 %
Partnership Building
25 % A B

13. “The Purpose of Leadership is to grow more leaders…not more followers”
“Everything must come through me”
Your Responsibility
Leadership
Management
Administration
Short-term Long-term
Fine detail Broad overview
Vision, Transformation +
Partnership Development
Planning
Implementation A B
“The Purpose of Leadership is to grow more leaders…not more followers”
Your
Capacity

14. “The outcome must be clear before we start”

15. “The status quo will do”
Management…Leadership
Stability…Change
Means…Ends
How…Why
Responds…Pre-Empts
Meets objectives…Clarifies Values

16. Engage…and engage again
Clarify
your vision
Work out
what really
matters
Engage…and engage again
Focus on
‘People’
and
‘Strategy’
Innovate