Thursday 31 May 2012

Full speed ahead to the Jubilee weekend. I hope you and your families have a good early summer break and enjoy the festivities across the county. Thank you to all the teams working this weekend keeping the show on the road.


It’s been a busy week, with several programme boards – Shaping the Future and the ECO/C02, both making very good progress to drive forward our agendas for embedding our values and culture across the organisation and reducing the counties carbon footprint respectively. We also had the first meeting of the new Scrutiny Management Committee. Robust scrutiny is vital to our organisation and it is important that we use this forum to develop policy in the future.


This afternoon I’m being interviewed by one of our Graduate Management Trainees on the subject of Leadership. This got me thinking and writing, so I thought that I would share with you my favourite definition and model of leadership. It has five elements:


1. Personal mastery: self awareness, self development, authenticity, composure and balance, integrity, presence


2. Vision: change catalyst, direction, purpose, systems thinking, judgement


3. Action: personal drive, role model, decisiveness, commitment, influence


4. Knowledge: subject matter expert, critical thinking, integrative problem solving


5. Relationships: empathy and trust, collaboration, communication, conflict management, development of others, inclusion


And to simplify this, we have just two functions really; to get the job done and to develop people!


It would be good to hear your thoughts and ideas about this.


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Thanks for reading. I shall be taking some furlough next week, so talk again in a week or so.


Carlton