leadership from beyond the fe sector - etf
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Aim ?
To establish a knowledge base from which the Education & Training
Foundation can develop a professional and career framework for leadership
and management in the education and training sector
The Leadership Conversation
5 members of project management team (157, NIACE, AELP, IfL, Gazelle)
+ Additional 10 members on Steering Group
Sector-based partnership
1. Develop a Leadership Framework
2. Identify gaps in leadership development opportunities and recommend how to address these
3. Stimulate engagement in the Leadership Conversation
Objectives
• Undertake interviews with education and training sector leaders
• Seek additional contributions from sector practitioners, stakeholders and employers
• Seek feedback on leadership development; work with Sector Task Group
Key Activities
• Establish International Academic Advisory Group
• Develop leadership think-piece videos
• Implement a virtual brainstorming process
Wisdom of Crowds
Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant - better at solving problems, fostering innovation, contributing to wise decisions, and even scoping possible futures.
A conventional ‘futures thinking process’ means that you:
Decide focus of ideas collection
Conduct interviews
Analyse interview transcripts
‘Manually’ cluster ideas and develop ‘signals’
The Virtual Process is designed to address issues of:
Numbers Time Resources + Organisational Identity
Very time-consumingand costly to engagelarge numbers of participants
Engages a diversity of thinking (‘wisdom of crowds’) through the innovative communications technology.
Applies a rigorous process with freedom of input - it allows individuals to be free from organisational identity and ‘political correctness’ in their anonymous contribution of ideas and responses. Combines participants’ ideas and analysis on a scale unachievable by conventional means - the process can be used in contexts involving many thousands of people. Provides a wide range of reporting systems that filter, prioritise and present perspectives on collected ideas using sophisticated data-mining techniques. Retains unique data sets that can be then inform various future development paths and investigate possible outcomes that may otherwise be overlooked.
The Benefits of the Method
Thank you
http://www.157group.co.uk/practice/ leadership-conversation