Leadership and Management Programmes

In Module 4, you will look at Public Value and the Three Horizons.  As for the previous modules, please complete this pre-work before joining the session:

Reflection

Reflect on Module 3 and what you have noticed in terms of Bakens and the Shadow Side of organisations. You will share your reflections at the start of Module 4.

Public Value

Watch as Mark Moore discusses the concept and history of public value (2020) – 12 mins – and describes a strategic triangle of Public Value – the conditions you hope to change, at an individual and/or societal level – and what would be necessary to produce those improvements on the other two points of the triangle:

• Operating Environment – how material assets e.g. finance, technology, people, skills could be deployed to improve conditions
• Authorising Environment - legitimacy and support

Consider each of these corners, how they inter-relate and the associated challenges for your wicked issues and services, with a focus on the things that are within your control. Reflect on what this means for your leadership practice. You will discuss this in breakout rooms during the session.

Three Horizons

• Review the Three Horizons Toolkit, from the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales. Use the four questions from the Toolkit shown below, to prepare an example from your own work which allows you to explore the future and plan how to get there. You will discuss this example with a partner in a breakout room during the session.

The 4 questions:

• Present concerns. What makes you think the current situation needs to change?
• Future aspirations. What would you like this to look and feel like in 2050?
• Inspirational practice. Where is the 2050 vision happening already?
• Innovations in play. What projects, ideas or initiatives are in play or in sight that aim to change the status quo? 

Adaptive Learning Set

If you have not explored your issue yet, there are opportunities for two Set members to do this in Module 4, as there will be two rounds i.e. one member will go through the whole U process exploring their issue and, after a break, another member will explore their issue. You can reflect and prepare for this in advance, as you wish.

Slides

If it is your preference to take notes on the slide pack, and to see the full agenda in advance, you can download the slides from the Resources section below. This is optional and not a requirement.

Public Value

To expand on Public Value, you can watch any of the following from Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education:

• Interview with Professor Mark Moore about public value context (2020) - 14.47 mins
• Mark Moore discusses implications for leaders in relation to Public Value (2 May 2019) - 7.35mins

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