Public Service Leadership 2007
Conference / Exhibition, 13th March QEII Conference Centre
Agenda
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P1: Plenary Session
Running time: 09:30 - 11:00
Key figures from across public service focus on many of today's biggest leadership challenges.
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A1: Coaching & Leadership Effectiveness: Creating A More Engaged Workforce
Running time: 11:30 - 12:30
Today few organisations have established ways to tangibly measure & report on the results of their investments in human capital development, especially coaching & leadership programmes. By comparing coaching & leadership programmes & how they are measured in specific private & public sector case studies, this session will identify the critical next steps the public sector must focus on in creating a more engaged & high performing workforce.
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A2: Collaborative Leadership
Running time: 11:30 - 12:30
You can not lead an organisation in isolation. Collaborative leadership within the public sector is attracting a lot of attention. Not only building relationships with stakeholders, developing partnerships, staff & teams, but also underpinning successful achievement of your objectives. Join this forum-based session to hear about the advantages & pitfalls.
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A3: Interim Executives - The New Force In Change Management
Running time: 11:30 - 12:30
The use of interim executives (as opposed to management consultants) to drive efficiency changes in the public sector has expanded rapidly in the last few years. A user & an interim executive will present their views & experiences. A discussion session will follow.
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A4: Successful Approaches To Building Future Talent
Running time: 11:30 - 12:30
How do you grow future leaders? How do you integrate this with organisational aims? How can collaboration help? This session will share experiences of individual & organisational programmes within CEL's Building Future Talent strategy. Delegates will also debate more widely how the sector can attract, build & retain leadership talent.
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A5: Using Psychology In Leadership Development
Running time: 11:30 - 12:30
Leadership development can provide public service organisations with the leadership ability they will need to succeed in the future. This can be achieved by honing the skills of existing leaders to meet changing organisational requirements, or through developing the leadership potential of other employees.
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B1: Creating High Performing Leadership Teams
Running time: 13:45 - 14:45
Today, as the public sector faces many challenges & changes, the requirement for inspirational & aligned leadership is paramount. Business performance is driven by leadership teams with a shared purpose, vision, mission & strategy. This experiential session will explore the key dimensions to creating a high-performing leadership team, together with a case study of a public sector organisation which implemented significant behaviour change, delivering considerable return on its investment.
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B2: Working With Competing Values - Towards A New Public Leadership Model
Running time: 13:45 - 14:45
Public leadership discussions have been dominated by models imported from mainly private sector theory & practice. This session will present new thinking from Manchester Business School on a specifically public sector model of leadership which captures the very different, & often conflicting, roles public leaders are called upon to perform.
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B3: The Dark Side Of Leadership
Running time: 13:45 - 14:45
Leadership is personally challenging & circumstances conspire to confront leaders with aspects of themselves that they do not like - yet they must find a way forward. How they do this is in itself a test of leadership & potentially a gateway for transformation and inspiration. This session explores how.
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B4: Developing People In The Changing Workplace
Running time: 13:45 - 14:45
This session will look at how the establishment of a new ethical & value-based framework to improve performance & assist the growth of future generations of police leaders is at the heart of developing individuals in the workplace; & explore why effective leadership at all levels is critical to the success of the police reform programme.
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B5: PKF & Jobcentre Plus - Creating The Momentum For Culture Change
Running time: 13:45 - 14:45
PKF & Jobcentre Plus will present a case study of how they have jointly created a programme to create a culture change to support their transformational agenda in what is a large & geographically dispersed organisation. This session will cover how the programme partners have defined the new culture in measurable terms; created measurement tools, linked the culture change to the development & actions of local managers; supported local managers through change: & tied this up with the Strategic purpose of the organisation.
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C1: Leadership For Change
Running time: 15:15 - 16:15
Developing the talent pipeline is key to an organisations' ability to meet its future objectives. This session will report the results of a benchmarking study conducted for the World Bank in the USA, who had a need to improve the way that its leaders & managers are developed. It led to the 'Talent Engine' framework, which may be used as a diagnostic tool.
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C2: Transformation Leadership - A Case Study Of St Mary's NHS Trust
Running time: 15:15 - 16:15
Engaging clinicians as highly effective leaders is critical to success in a world of targets & service reform. This session explores and illuminates the Lane4 St Mary's partnership, a partnership focused on the development of a community of transformational leaders within the Trust.
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C3: How to Assess & Develop Leadership Wisdom
Running time: 15:15 - 16:15
Leadership Wisdom has been inadequately addressed up til now, because it has not been well-defined or easily measured. This session explores the nature of leadership wisdom & its incorporation into the ‘Leading Across Boundaries’ programme, run by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society & endorsed by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
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C4: The Leadership Gap – Going Beyond Method
Running time: 15:15 - 16:15
There is considerable focus on method & management of projects, but success is still elusive. The missing ingredient is judgement & leadership. Leadership does differ in project & programme environments? Who does it, & what should they do? This session looks at the issues, recommends an approach, & illustrates good practices by examining a successful Home Office project.
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C5: "In Theory - Practice & Theory Are The Same: In Practice - They Are Not” (Einstein)
Running time: 15:15 - 16:15
Formalised managerial qualifications are increasingly significant to the pressured public sector. Yet in managing organisations – public or private - textbook theory only gets you so far. Putting leadership principles into practice effectively is the true measure of management development programmes. Should business schools produce public sector leaders & managers or just MBAs?
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