Published: 16 January 2009
NSG Leadership Programme uses Real Life Work Issues
A new and highly practical leadership development programme from the National School of Government will see participants tackle their own ‘real life’ work issues, whilst learning how to reframe their approaches to the problems that conventional techniques fail to resolve.
‘Leadership: problems, strategies and systems: making space to think’ – the first module of which takes place at Sunningdale Park between 3-5 June 2009 – takes as its starting point the kinds of complex environment in which leaders typically find it difficult to effect meaningful change.
It then encourages participants to explore their work challenges as consultants in pragmatic, problem-oriented ways.
Designed for Senior Civil Service (SCS) members at pay band 1, the programme benefits from significant design & workshop input from Keith Grint (Warwick University Professor and a Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute), who explained:
“Fundamental to the course is that the nature of the problem should determine the leadership approach.
‘Tame’ problems that have a precedent can be solved through standard procedures, whilst pressing ‘critical’ problems require decisive action.
However, ‘wicked’ problems for which there are no precedents require solutions rooted in pragmatic collaboration and collective intelligence, which is why we stress ‘systems thinking’.”
The programme is pursued as two residential modules of two-and-a-half days and one-and-a-half days respectively, with participants concentrating on their own work issues throughout.
The first module, which looks at problems and methodologies, is followed by consultancy work, with participants researching the workplaces of other participants and giving feedback, and then undertaking similar activities in their own workplace before receiving feedback from their own frontline staff.
Finally, the second module sees participants prepare & present case studies to their peers and managers.
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