Leading beyond the building
Place, accountability, sustaining yourself and the first 100 days.
Two and a half hours on the work beyond the organisation: leading the place, being held to account, sustaining yourself and planning your first hundred days.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 2 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Becoming a Chief Executive
- Price
- £69
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Aspiring and new chief executives leading councils and public bodies alongside partners
Overview
Four modules follow the top job beyond the building. It opens with place leadership: Sir Michael Lyons's place-shaping, public services boards under the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, statutory partnerships in England and Wales, Huish and Milliner's verbs of partnership leadership and Gwent as the first Marmot region in Wales. It then examines how chief executives are appointed, appraised and protected, including the JNC conditions and dismissal safeguards. Sustaining yourself follows, through Ronald Heifetz's productive zone of disequilibrium and Achor and Gielan on recovery. It closes with a capstone on Michael Watkins's The First 90 Days and two illustrative Welsh cases, Cyngor Sir Glanmor and Cartrefi Bro Taf.
Aims
The aim is to prepare chief executives to lead with partners they do not control, to understand the arrangements that hold them to account, to look after their own judgement and health, and to begin the role with honest diagnosis and a clear plan.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Apply the verbs of partnership leadership to convene partners across a place, and audit how much of your time goes where it matters most for residents.
- Explain how council chief executives are appointed, appraised and protected in England and Wales, and the accountability that still applies to the role.
- Plan your first hundred days as chief executive, alongside a personal sustainability plan that protects your judgement, integrity and health over the long term.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Apply the verbs of partnership leadership and the six steps for convening a place, and audit your diary for place time.
- Describe the JNC conditions and an annual appraisal cycle, including the part played by an external facilitator and a cross-party panel.
- Plan a personal support system and sustainability plan, including your early warning signs and when to seek proper support.
- Judge where to bend and where to stand firm under pressure, and how to leave a chief executive role well.
- Apply Watkins' disciplines to diagnose whether you face a turnaround, a realignment or an organisation that mainly needs sustaining.
- Plan your first 100 days on a page, covering relationships, statutory assurance, the top team and how you will stay well.
Built from 2 parts.
2 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01Place and accountabilityThe chief executive and the place, appointment and appraisalBitesize2 modules
- 02Lasting the courseSustaining yourself, and your first 100 daysBitesize2 modules
Keep going.
Part of the Becoming a Chief Executive topic, also sold whole as The top job.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereFocus, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69
- The whole topicExplore, The top job, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Focus? You pay £60.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Leading the whole