New Sunningdale Institute report calls for fresh approach to public service leadership
Latest press releasesWhole Systems Go!: Improving leadership across the whole public service system, published this month, sets out the parameters to promote and cultivate leadership capability across the public service.
The paper, commissioned by the National School of Government and the Public Service Leaders Alliance, is authored by Professors John Benington and Jean Hartley from Warwick Business School. It addresses the question 'What would it take to create more effective leadership of the whole governmental and public service system?'
Benington and Hartley argue that the current economic crisis provides a significant catalyst for developing more effective approaches to public leadership and organisation development by working in an integrated way across the whole public service system. Their recommendations include:
Rod Clark, Principal and Chief Executive of the National School, said: "This is a timely contribution to innovative thinking about leadership across all levels of government during the current cold climate. The radical recommendations within this report are highly relevant both to our longer term thinking about the changing relationships between government and citizens, and between different levels of government, but also to more immediate concerns with the leadership of local communities."
John Benington and Jean Hartley said: "We have aimed to develop a new conceptual framework for thinking about leadership as part of a complex adaptive system, to help tackle tough problems facing organisations and communities. Our report provides some very practical proposals for change in our approach to fast track graduate development programmes, senior civil service training and the training and induction of ministers and MPs, as well as leadership programmes for top civil servants and all public and voluntary services across a whole area as in the Total Place programme."
The full report can be accessed in the top right hand side of the link below.
The paper, commissioned by the National School of Government and the Public Service Leaders Alliance, is authored by Professors John Benington and Jean Hartley from Warwick Business School. It addresses the question 'What would it take to create more effective leadership of the whole governmental and public service system?'
Benington and Hartley argue that the current economic crisis provides a significant catalyst for developing more effective approaches to public leadership and organisation development by working in an integrated way across the whole public service system. Their recommendations include:
- New patterns of 'adaptive leadership' to tackle tough, complex, cross-cutting problems in the community.
- Joined up leadership development programmes to address whole system challenges.
- Leadership development programmes that translate individual learning into organisational and inter-organisational action and improvement.
Rod Clark, Principal and Chief Executive of the National School, said: "This is a timely contribution to innovative thinking about leadership across all levels of government during the current cold climate. The radical recommendations within this report are highly relevant both to our longer term thinking about the changing relationships between government and citizens, and between different levels of government, but also to more immediate concerns with the leadership of local communities."
John Benington and Jean Hartley said: "We have aimed to develop a new conceptual framework for thinking about leadership as part of a complex adaptive system, to help tackle tough problems facing organisations and communities. Our report provides some very practical proposals for change in our approach to fast track graduate development programmes, senior civil service training and the training and induction of ministers and MPs, as well as leadership programmes for top civil servants and all public and voluntary services across a whole area as in the Total Place programme."
The full report can be accessed in the top right hand side of the link below.
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