“Public Leaders educate and gain agreement on the unvarnished facts about the current reality. A leader’s willingness to confront the current reality with co-workers and citizens is an act of respect. It is the only way to focus on the gap between where you are and where you want to go. Without this collective understanding and agreement achieving shared goals and making shared decisions is impossible.”
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Reactive Technology Choices and Unintended Consequences
“There is no question that we are learning daily as we reach for technology platforms to conduct distance meetings and teach the millions of students who would normally be in classrooms. We are all learning through trial and error that each platform has different levels of security, architecture and ease in usage.
What Does Public Service Mean in Today’s World? Who Depends on US to Thrive and Survive in U.S. Democracy?
In any democracy citizens are not customers, they are partners with civil servants and elected public leaders and they are also the end-users.
An end user in this example is anyone or anything who depends on you for a service or product to get their work done, achieve their outcomes or thrive. For Public Servants this generally means citizens, colleagues, students, or other living systems which depend on our care and protection. When Dr. Edward Deming, the father of total quality management, met with senior leaders all over the world, he would always say “Do not tell me what is in your job description tell me who depends on you and how you are meeting their needs.”
Public Leaders in Rhode Island Innovate for Safer, Greener Cities and Schools, Serving Citizens Better, and Saving Money Through ‘Leadership Matters RI’
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — ‘Leadership Matters RI’ achieves another year of successful outcomes in Rhode Island. Citizens in Central Falls, Cumberland, Pawtucket and Portsmouth will benefit from the learning and innovative work of their public leaders. The Public Sector Consortium, a national nonprofit dedicated to the “reinvention of public leadership for the public good,” has worked with the cities/towns, legislators and school departments from these municipalities and their projects are once again yielding benefits.
“We have partnered with proactive city and town leaders, public educators, university leaders, and elected legislators across Rhode Island, providing them with the skills to take a system-wide strategic approach to complex challenges,” said Georgie Bishop, President of the Public Sector Consortium. “It is not always easy to shift ingrained ways of doing business but once leaders experience how new skills can help them be more effective, lower their stress levels and achieve better results, it transforms how work gets done,” continued Bishop.
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How Can I Help? The Hallmark of Great Public Leadership.
“The unexpected sincere offer of help as the hallmark of public leadership is a powerful disciplined practice.
“It sounds so simple, but the discipline of asking this question, ‘How can I help?’ can become the hallmark of how you lead, hire staff, and measure performance. It is probably the essence of truly great public leadership.”
Read the full article, written by Georgie Bishop, online at Thrive Global
Lessons in Public Leadership
Can sustainable leadership be taught? Lessons in leadership for the divided political parties in Washington.
Watch this video from “The Take” on NECN, in which Sue O’Connell interviews Georgie Bishop.
Sustainable Leadership Practices™
“Sustainable Leadership Practices; A New Model of Excellence for all Leaders.
“The criteria that defines quality leadership performance varies depending on the industry, sector, culture, and author of the latest management book. Our belief is that there are core professional leadership practices that are universal and would seriously improve the quality of our lives and are better described as Sustainable Leadership Practices™.”
“…The US needs to take their lead and begin to develop these practices in American public leaders and reward them for avoiding crises and the stress that comes with them. We are behind the curve on the shift from reactive to sustainable leadership practices. The cost of the current reactive leadership approach is non-sustainable.”
Read the full article, written by Georgie Bishop, online at Thrive Global
This is What’s Next – The Rhode Island Foundation
“Over the last several years, a new style of leadership has taken root in several Rhode Island communities.
“These public leaders rely on practiced skills like systems thinking, facilitative leadership, and performance measures, and they engage their constituencies and their workforces to achieve goals important to the entire community.”
Managing Projects and Engaging Stakeholders
Rhode Island Town Unveils New Innovative Program to Manage Projects and Engage Stakeholders More Effectively
‘Bristol Approach to Excellence’ To Keep Citizens and Town Leaders More Informed About Projects in Real-Time
Bristol, Rhode Island town officials today revealed the secret to their successful communication program that has ‘re-energized’ town departments and improved how things are getting done. ‘The Bristol Approach to Excellence,’ is the new program devised to keep department heads and citizens more updated on the progress of current town projects.
Public Leadership the Profession We All Depend On
Public Leadership: The Profession We All Depend On
Essential Practices to See You Through
On a day-to-day basis, public leaders are skilled at providing services to other public organizations and to the residents they serve. Most importantly, they understand their jobs, not in terms of titles or position descriptions, but in terms of “who depends on me.” Public leaders are also adept at getting others to understand who depends on them and for what. They work with numerous stakeholder groups to continuously innovate in the delivery of public services and meet challenges. Also essential for any leader is the ability to engender trust—particularly public leaders. How they meet commitments and follow through even when things are difficult or uncomfortable is paramount to their ability to lead.
Read more about practices that are essential to public leadership on page 32 of the May 2016 issue of Public Management magazine.