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Organisation Development and Leadership
Richard Crouch
Tel: 01823 355074 - 07919 540241
Email: rmcrouch@somerset.gov.uk
Annual Report 2009
This has been my first year leading the Leadership and OD Network, following in the tracks of Gillian Hibberd from Buckingham County Council, who has been a difficult act to follow. Gillian and the Network have been enormously successful in laying down a firm foundation for leadership and OD for the PPMA, in terms of ‘how to’ guides, OD toolkits etc. and my tenure so far has been to build on this and demonstrate their application in our transforming sector. I am grateful to all of the fantastic people on the Network and those who link with it for their continued enthusiasm in supporting what we are trying to do here, which is to best support the PPMA membership and the public sector it represents in a wide variety of aspects that link to leadership and OD needs, both now and in the future.
Highlights from this period include:
PPMA Leadership and OD Network
The Network continues to meet on a regular basis with a key remit of working up what it feels to be the current and future needs of the Membership and the public sector, in relation to establishing and sharing existing good practice and engaging in the leadership and OD requirements of the future. One of the most recent outputs has been the production of a guide (with the support of Solace Enterprises) on the leadership and OD requirements concerning shared services.
National Debates
Part of the Network now includes the facility for there to be a national debating chamber on topical leadership and OD issues. The Network membership forms part of the chamber and invitees to the Debating Panel have included to date the Leadership Centre, UNISON, a range of council representatives and a number of agencies in both the public and private sectors. There have been two topics debated to date, the first being ‘changing the way we work’ and the second related to the leadership and OD aspects concerned with mergers, acquisitions, investments, divestments, strategic partnerships etc. The latter links with LGR as well as other current trends in the public sector. Outputs from these debates are published on the PPMA website.
Consultation
We have been involved in a number of consultation exercises and three that I mention here include:
a) The IDeA draft Leadership Strategy
Our inputs included the view that:
• Succession planning needs to support leaders in being equipped to move from a position of being service centric to organizational centric.
• Future leaders will need to be ‘place shapers’ as well as ‘organisation shapers’.
• Leadership with less authority will be a key future ingredient.
b) The IDeA National Workforce Strategy
One widely expressed view was that there needs to be a closer link between leadership and OD in driving through whole organisation change.
c) The National Recruitment Framework
This is a joint consultation exercise between Jobcentre Plus and the DWP, with the IDeA and a number of JCP exemplar organizations (incl. representation from the LGE) to support JCP in forging better links with local government in relation to public sector jobs. This is at an early stage and likely to be developed further.
Communications
The Network continues to make in-roads to ensure that leadership and OD are both at the forefront of peoples’ minds and has tried to generate new ways of thinking about current issues. To that end, it has published a number of think pieces and engaged in a number of events (incl. the National OD Programme) to gently provoke positive reaction for the public sector.
Lastly, I am grateful to the PPMA’s many sponsors for all the help and support that they give, in so many ways, to the Network.
March 2009
MARCH 2009 DEBATE ON THE LEADERSHIP AND OD IMPLICATIONS OF MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS, INVESTMENTS, DIVESTMENTS AND STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
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