Your first 100 days
Place, partners and the director’s narrative, with case studies.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- Where
- Becoming a Director
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
This module looks at a director's role beyond the directorate. It covers Sir Michael Lyons' idea of place-shaping, Huish and Milliner's verbs of partnership leadership, the director as convenor and ambassador of place, growth first and inclusive growth, why people follow a story before a strategy, a six-step sequence for building a narrative of place, and speaking partners' organisational languages. This capstone brings the move into corporate leadership together in a practical plan for the first 100 days as a director. It uses Michael Watkins' transition framework, a timeline from before day one to day 100, two illustrative composite cases at Cyngor Sir Glanmor and Northvale District Council seen through earlier frameworks, a self-assessment against the eight Solace and LGA themes, and a 100-day plan template.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain Lyons' idea of place-shaping, why many outcomes residents care about lie beyond any single directorate, and how growth first and inclusive growth differ.
- Apply the verbs of partnership leadership and the convenor, ambassador and political link roles when working with partners you do not manage.
- Plan a narrative of place using the six-step sequence and the one page tool, framed in language each partner recognises.
- Explain why early choices shape how a new director is seen, using Watkins' disciplines of promoting yourself, accelerating learning and matching strategy to situation.
- Apply the frameworks from earlier modules to the illustrative Glanmor and Northvale cases to judge a director's best moves.
The Modules.
1 hour 30 minutes of learning.
- 08Place, Partners and the Director's NarrativeThis module looks at a director's role beyond the directorate. It covers Sir Michael Lyons' idea of place-shaping, Huish and Milliner's verbs of partnership leadership, the director as convenor and ambassador of place, growth first and inclusive growth, why people follow a story before a strategy, a six-step sequence for building a narrative of place, and speaking partners' organisational languages.38 min
- 09Capstone: Your First 100 Days as a DirectorThis capstone brings the move into corporate leadership together in a practical plan for the first 100 days as a director. It uses Michael Watkins' transition framework, a timeline from before day one to day 100, two illustrative composite cases at Cyngor Sir Glanmor and Northvale District Council seen through earlier frameworks, a self-assessment against the eight Solace and LGA themes, and a 100-day plan template.43 min
Keep going.
Part of the Becoming a Director topic, also sold whole as The corporate turn.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 30 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Delivering as a director, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, The corporate turn, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
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
