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Agenda
• What is Strategic Leadership?
• Opportunities for Saskatchewan Municipalities
• How Municipal Leaders See Leadership
• Going Forward
What is “strategy”
• Big
A vision of something large (important, valued)
• Specific
Goals, timeline, outcomes, milestones
• Actionable•
Allows you to align what happens now with what’s intended for the future
What is “leadership”
• Focus
Maintaining a vision
• Movement
Being at the head of the pack
• Mentoring•
Keeping the pack together
Leading Strategically – 1• Not about where you are
Not management of the status quo (good manager + representative)
• About where you plan to be
Leading to something new (change)
Find the strategic vision – ask:o Status quo ok for our long-term future?o If not, what kind of future do we want?o What do we have to do differently to get
to that future vision? (strategies)
Make it clear, specific, strongo Goal + Timeline + Benefits
Leading Strategically – 2
• Maintain the visiono Commitment and repetitiono Focus on the benefits
• Manage towards the visiono Evaluate choices – use the vision as
criteria for decision makingo Search for opportunities – proactively
advance your strategies
• Communicate the visiono Repetition – a vision needs
to be seeno Celebration – progress
revitalizes vision
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