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What does it take to be a successful public service
professional beyond the crisis?
A preview on the emerging ‘job description’ for public sector leaders and how the European Commission deals with it for their own staff
Rainer v. Leoprechting – this presentation only engages the author, not the European Commission
Leuven 6 May 2011
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The new leadership job• What’s the job: A view on some major
challenges for professionals in public service
• The “job requirements”
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What’s the new job about?
Attract entrepreneurs and people to shrinking areas; Integrate increasingly diverse cultures, ethnic groups, religions, educations etc;
Empower elderly people to be active in society
Demography – shrinking populations in Europe
Internal: Post-bureaucratic management, self-organisation, self-realisation, initiatives and change
“Governance 2.0” in public: e-government 2.0, citizen-self-organised public action
Generation change (internet generation),
Decline of public trust
Downsizing, Process re-engineering, Activity-based management, Privatisation, etc.
Budget pressures
Typical development strategiesTypical crisis challenges
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What’s the new job about? (2)
Diversity of schools for a diverse population, financial and management autonomy at school level, focus on personality development
Education crisis
Shift to small-scale local renewable energy production,
Urban planning to minimise energy consumptions, etc.
Climate change and Energy crisis
Continuous Learning across borders, Joint initiatives with Partner Cities and Regions worldwide, Pro-Active Lobbying for developing structural frameworks at European and National levels
Europeanisation and Globalisation
Senior and middle managers also “do politics”:
Pro-Active change negotiations with a large variety of stakeholders, Performance in media, Preference for “emerging consensus” innovations
Weak political leadership
Typical development workTypical challenges
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Who can do this?
The world is in constant flow, processes and routines to support pro-active change.
The world is stable, processes and routines to support status quo.
Loyalty to the emerging future. Status quo is a transition state.
Loyalty to the work unit, superiors and the organisation. Status quo is the norm.
Work in cross-cutting projects, variety of perspectives, constant learning and discovery (value: dynamic holistic performance).
Work in fixed functions, deviant behaviour is sanctioned (values: compliance and static efficiency).
Required (new) paradigm: Leadership
Mainstream in public services: Management
Marked paradigm shifts needed, here some examples:
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How talent develops in adults
Management stage
Leadership stage
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Distribution of talent
Advance own agenda
Follow group rules
Follow own principles
Be “in the flow”
Paradigm basis
Shift
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Paradigm shifts across stages
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Some interim conclusions
• The emerging future requires leadership paradigms and leaders that we don’t have
• However, no one can “be developed”, leaders grow out of their own
• The main work of today’s top leaders thus is to cultivate their organisations as a “leadership garden”, in which staff are supported in their growth
• This corresponds to the “new generation” strategies of post-bureaucratic self-organisation and –realisation in public services
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Some leadership gardening practices
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Developing Leadership Potential (partially done at the EC)
• Measure how your incumbent managers make meaning and sense in their work
• Compare their level of leadership develop-ment with their current level of leadership requirements
• Have managers move if there is a major mismatch
• Coach people to accompany the growth to their next level
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Leadership pipeline
• Align the organisational hierarchy so that every staff member has a direct superior that is more developed that they themselves
• Coach managers in their transition to new levels of leadership authority
• Use organisational change and develop-ment projects as growth assignments for promising talents
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Action Learning
• Accompanies Change Initiatives with Reflection and Learning
• Small group learning sets
• Question-focused discovery
• Brings about (hidden) assumptions, opens to innovation in a consensual way
• Bonds project teams
• Supports development to leadership level
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Action Learning
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Communities of Practice
• Staff with a shared professional focus are invited to share their experiences and learning issues
• Sponsored by a senior manager that asks the community to produce specific outco-mes
• Self-organised learning groups• Can be accompanied by consulting or
coaching in the beginning
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Community of Practice (Planning & Programming)
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Sharing and learning with peer leaders
• Share your initiatives European Commission-wide
• Reflect with peers about the overall challenges of the Union and your actions
• 8 peer seminars with European Commission directors in 2008-2010
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The Art of Hosting
• The Art of hosting meaningful conversations – the essence of participatory leadership
• Self-organised meeting formats:– Open Space– World café– Proaction café– Circle
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Open Space (Brussels)
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Open Space
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Collective Mind Map
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Voting on Mind Map
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Landscape
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Ritual dissent (Lux)
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Pro Action Café with Directors
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Pro Action Café in Jean Monnet’s House
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Stakeholder Café
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Circle (communication seminar)
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Circle (Mondorf, Lux)
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Circle (Jean Monnet House)
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Some references• Adult Development
Robert Kegan: In over our heads (1994)• Development of Leadership Potential
Otto Laske: Measuring hidden dimensions (2006)*www.interdevelopmentals.org
• Drotter et al.: The Leadership pipeline (2000)• Action Learning www.ifal.org.uk• Communities of Practice
Etienne Wenger: www.ewenger.com• The Art of Hosting www.artofhosting.org• Systemic constellation work
http://www.tetrald.com/EuropeanConstellations• Speaker Contact
Rainer v. Leoprechting email: [email protected]
*Graphics in the preceding slides by Otto Laske