Running the organisation
The statutory role, the leader, the top team and grip.
Three hours on the inside of the top job: the statutory role, the partnership with your leader, the top team you lead, and grip without control.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 3 hours
- 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
Directors preparing to become chief executives, and new chief executives in public bodies
Overview
This Focus brings together five modules on running the organisation from the top. It begins with the step from director to chief executive, the four faces of the job, Keith Grint's tame, wicked and critical problems and Mark Moore's strategic triangle. It then examines the statutory core: the legal duties of the head of paid service in England and the chief executive in Wales, protecting the monitoring officer and section 151 officer, and lessons from Thurrock and Liverpool. The partnership with the leader follows, through James Svara's research and a practical relationship charter. Next comes the top team, with Jon Katzenbach, Patrick Lencioni and the Top Team Development Approach. It closes on culture, Amy Edmondson's psychological safety, the Croydon and Brick by Brick case and six sources of assurance.
Aims
This programme aims to develop chief executives who keep advice independent at the top, build a working partnership with their leader or chair, design the top team the work needs, and know what is really true in their organisation before it is too late.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Explain the statutory duties of the head of paid service in England and the chief executive in Wales, and the guarantees that keep the monitoring officer and section 151 officer independent.
- Plan a relationship charter with your leader or chair and an operating rhythm for a top team that works as a real team when the work demands it.
- Assess how well your organisation's culture, channels and sources of assurance bring the truth to you in time, drawing on Croydon and other failure reports.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Apply Grint's tame, wicked and critical problems and Moore's strategic triangle to decide how to respond to issues reaching the chief executive.
- Explain the guarantees a chief executive should give the monitoring officer and section 151 officer so that their advice stays independent.
- Plan a relationship charter with your leader or chair covering priorities, boundaries, contact, no surprises, disagreement and review.
- Plan a fair sequence for inheriting a top team and an operating rhythm that separates running today from shaping tomorrow.
- Distinguish grip from control, and use several channels to triangulate what is true in your organisation.
- Assess the sources of assurance available to your board or council in the light of Croydon and other failure reports.
Built from 2 parts.
3 hours of learning.
- 01Head of paid serviceThe move to chief executive, the statutory role and the leaderBitesize3 modules
- 02Team, culture and gripBuilding the top team, culture and assuranceBitesize2 modules
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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, 3 hours, £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, Toward the chief executive role