dr. barrie kennard head of academic standards & quality assurance
TRANSCRIPT
Dr. Barrie Kennard
Head of Academic Standards & Quality
Assurance
How does LMD look from the outside?
How does it feel to those involved?
Moving Leadership & Management Development (LMD) out of the
classroom & into the workplace
Theory Vs Practice
Theory and Practice
Employed Status Learners are a completely different proposition to
‘traditional’ learners
The Private sector is the destination of choice for organisations seeking LMD
WHY ???
HEIs and the inability to communicate
HEIs need to ensure that;
The right people interface with business
The chosen people want to do the job
It cannot all be the fault of the educators
Commonly held beliefs
1. Everyone wants to be a manager
2. Anyone without management aspirations lacks drive
3. The person with the best sales figures will make a good manager
XX
X
Stumbling Blocks (1)
1. Exams
2. Work based projects
3. The willingness of the learners to participate
4. Buy in from employers
Stumbling Blocks (2)
5. Providers / deliverers
6. Text
7. Inappropriate learners
Suggestions for change
Customise programmes for Organisations
Innovate!
Demand led NOT supply led
Greater awareness of contemporary issues facing leaders
Romantic notion
Bold leader taking risks & unafraid of failure
“To boldly go where no-one ..... etc
Iconoclastic view
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who
mourn the passing of the nation's
leaders wouldn't know a leader if they
saw one……………….
If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might
demand something from them,
and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish
for his return. - Lewis H. Lapham
Risk averse leadership
Keep your head below the parapet
Do nothing that could come back at you
No risk = no failure = no blame
RISK AVERSE
RISK AVERSION
When a young woman was rescued from drowning in the Clyde by the Glasgow
Humane Society’s George Parsonage, she was even luckier than she knew.
According to Parsonage and an eye witness, Strathclyde Fire and Rescue service
attempted to have him arrested to stop him wading to her assistance when strong
currents prevented their lifelines or his boat being deployed effectively.
“When you are conducting a rescue you have to do it within the safety threshold,”
commented the group commander, while declining to discuss the specifics.
LITIGIOUS SOCIETY
No week passes without someone attempting to acquire compensation from some incident or accident which was either partly down to
their own stupidity or the result of a calculated risk they had chosen to take as a
fully paid-up adult.
LITIGIOUS SOCIETY
The Winnebago & the sat nav
This is a navigation device only and is not intended to replace the driver
Children enjoying donkey rides on the beach at Bognor Regis are now forced to wear hard
hats.
Hertfordshire County Council dictates that parents must not provide their children with goggles for swimming lessons — in case they spring back and hit the little darlings in the face.
To burn or not to burn, that is the question,
BLAME CULTURE WORKPLACE
The whole compensation culture hangs on the idea that we can behave as badly as we like, be totally irresponsible and ignore common
sense and then when things go wrong we can blame it all on someone else
ALTERNATIVE VOCABULARY
Body Odour Non discretionary fragrance
Broken Home Dysfunctional family
Fail Achieve a deficiency
Foreign Food Ethnic cuisine
Unemployed Involuntarily leisured
Prostitute Sex worker
Gossip Speedy transmission of near-factual information
SOLUTION 1:
Do nothing that could lead to any sort of recrimination
SOLUTION 2:
Say nothing that could lead to any sort of recrimination
SOLUTION 3
FINAL SOLUTION
Give it a go
No Blame culture
Allow Leaders to fail at tasks with no fear of reprisal
