Leading Powerful Partnerships — a new model of public sector leadership development

Abstract

This paper provides a review of an innovative new leadership programme aimed at senior leaders in the police service and other public sector services. It considers the context and approaches to leadership that underpin the ethos of the programme. It provides a discussion on the learning approach of the programme and how it offers participants opportunities for critical reflection and for learning in collaboration with peers. It then discusses the use of strategic questions to provide practice for the participants in conducting and understanding an evidence‐based project. Through evaluation research it then considers how effective the approach is in terms of leadership development and in particular the application of this learning to the real world.

The Elements of a Learning Model to Enhance Service Mind of Thai Police Officer

“…For equality and organization culture, effective police service mind should demonstrate "care for subordinates", which requires them to seek out and take responsibility, coaching and mentoring (Moore, 1994;Bryman& Stephens, 1996;Densten, 1999Densten, , 2003Davies, 2000;Metcalfe & Dick, 2000;Davies & Thomas, 2003;Fleming, 2004;Murphy &Drodge, 2004;Andreescu& Vito, 2010;Schafer, 2010;Vito & Higgins, 2010). For organization culture and strategy, "problem solving" was he activity that emerged, with particular reference to proactive and collaborative styles of problem solving to address complex, interdependent, and unforeseen problems such as service mind problem (Davenport, 1999;Atwater et al, 2000;Davies, 2000;Davies & Thomas, 2003;Buterfield et al, 2004Buterfield et al, , 2005Silvestri, 2007;Miller et al, 2009;Meaklim& Sims, 2011;O'Leary et al, 2011) From database search from the journals, articles or other documents related to service mind and learning model. In total 81 searches were completed, which returned 1,624 pieces of literature.…”

“…Third was having ability to generate a sense of "trust" and "trustworthiness" within the police organization, as well as operationally between the police and community (Beck & Wilson, 1997;Atwater et al, 2000;Schafer, 2008Schafer, , 2010Wheatcroft et al, 2012). The last was effective "thinking ability" was important with critical , strategic, and creative thinking regarded as key attributes of successful service mind (Gaston, 1997;Davies, 2000;Coleman 2008;Miller et al, 2009;Meaklim and Sims, 2011;O'Leary et al, 2011) Four activities that effective police service mind engaged from literature review. "Creating a shared perspective" was one, relating to setting, developing, and sharing goal for the organization that create a sense of purpose for other police (Bryman& Stephens, 1996;Dantzker, 1996;Beck & Wilson, 1997;Densten, 1999Densten, , 2002Densten, , 2003Davies, 2000;Duncan et al, 2001;Engel, 2001;Murphy &Drodge, 2004;Buterfield et al, 2005;Schafer, 2008;2010;Steinheider&Wuestewald, 2008;Miller et al, 2009;Andreescu& Vito, 2010;Vito & Higgins, 2010;O'Leary et al, 2011;Vito, 2011) Related to this was the need to "engender organization commitment" which hould be a strategy and organization culture by providing support to subordinates, providing feedback, promoting collaboration, and giving them a perspective sharing (Beck & Wilson, 1997;Dick, 2011;Metcalfe & Dick, 2000Densten, 2002Densten, , 2005Steinheider&Wuestewald, 2008;…”

Local Public Leadership Development through Social Learning to Face the Fourth Industrial Revolution

“…Leaders will be asked to develop into "gifted generalists" with various leadership abilities [10]. Public services must ensure that leaders are skilled in carrying out increasingly complex tasks in society [11]. In this research, the main problem, in leadership development, is that leaders are old and do not have technological competence.…”

The Influence of Transformational Leadership on Perceived Ethical Leadership

“…Police are required to understand and effectively operate in a complex social, political, and organisational environment 12 . Good leadership is fundamental to high performance in such realms and as such, the need for good police leadership is greater now than ever 19 . Malaysia has been blessed with many top police leaders since its independence in 1957.…”