LEADERSHIP FOR AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

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LEADERSHIP FOR AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
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BE TRUE TO YOURSELF PEOPLE WILL FOLLOW THE
TRUTH

• LEADERSHIP
• Challenge
• Characteristics
• Context

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LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE IS NOT ABOUT DRIVING FROM
THE TOP

• What is the difference?
• Leadership
• Management
• Leadership

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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

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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?

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DELEGATING POWER

• Leadership is giving power to others to
  achieve agreed objectives
• To give them a sense of purpose
• To give them a sense of responsibility
• To give them space to be creative
• To make them accountable
• To harness their energy
• Delegation creates a more powerful
  organisation

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LEADERSHIP MEANS RISK

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

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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

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THE ORGANISATION ICEBERG

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

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WHAT IS THE PRACTICE OF LEADERSHIP?

• Exercising power
• Giving purpose
• Living with risk
• Networking
• Facilitating
• Challenging the status quo
• Harnessing energy

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KNOWLEDGE IS LIKE A RIVER IT IS ALWAYS FLOWING

• SIMPLE RULES
• See things through the eye of local people and
  organisations
• Find better ways of doing things
• Look at the whole picture
• Give staff the time and tools to tackle the
  challenges
• Take small steps as well as big leaps

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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

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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