leadership 2.0

Leadership 2.0

Why local authorities need to be learning organisations

Dave Briggs

Community Evangelist

Learning Pool?

@davebriggs

dave@learningpool.com

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@davebriggs

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From the benefits officeto Downing Street

in 5 years

(and a blog)

There’s a revolution going on

With a frightening pace of change

It’s not hard to see that this affects all

levels of government

Focus has been on comms and PR

But it’s really not all about Twitter!

How can an organisation talk to people on the outside, when people inside aren’t talking to

each other?

BlogsSocial networks

Collaborative authoringPodcasting

Status updateselearning

The interesting thing about social software is not the software.

It’s the implications of using it.

OpenessTransparencyCollaborationCooperation

(This also means you don’t need to know much about technology to

be able to use it effectively)

Managing:

ChangeKnowledge

TalentRiskIdeas

In other words, becoming a learning organisation

Now is the time for change

Drivers: efficiency & improvementEnablers: innovation & collaboration

Domains: culture & technology

All this has to embedded in

ProcessStructureSystemsStrategy

All these things need leadership

All these things change leadership

What matters now?

Co-creationPassionLearning

OpennessListening

Generosity

Councillors can:

Close the gap between themselves and council

officers

Question how innovation is managed in the council

Ask how silos are being broken down

Ask how knowledge is being managed

Start doing all this yourselves

Thanks for listening

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