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Creativity has become the Currency of Success
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Pencils are magical instruments - one end can be sharpened to create while at the other you erase to recreate. In fact, creativity has emerged as a mission-critical capability. If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got and today, that's not enough! Leaders often suffer from bureaucratic gravity, where past solutions are resynthesized to fix today's problems. Building your creative muscles should be one of your primary focus areas for 2019. Indeed, playing it safe is no longer playing it smart and with creativity and its sibling innovation in such high demand as a skill set, here are three steps to use in your fitness plan to tone your creativity muscles and realize your potential.
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"HOW TO CREATE A SUCCESSION PLANNING AND TALENT MANAGEMENT PROCESS" WEBINAR READY FOR DOWNLOAD
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DON'T RETREAT,
INSTEAD ADVANCE!
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The battle for talent continues to intensify and the need to attract and optimize top performers remains essential to organizational success. By distinguishing oneself from the competition, by creating a healthy workplace culture, being performance-focused, principles-led and helping employees pursue their dreams, ensures your organization will stay ahead of the pack and becomes an employer of choice.
The sum of all these moving parts is that for government leaders to build their 21st-century workforce, old models must be discarded in favor of "next practices"- contemporary, forward-looking and practical strategies and tools to attract, retain and optimize talent.
On February 20th, I presented a
webinar
for ICMA that where I reviewed a practical and proven step-by-step process for creating a talent management and succession planning process for your organization regardless of its size. This webinar is available for downloading.
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Taking control of uncertainty and successful steering the organization and community through frequent bends in the road is the fundamental leadership challenge of our time. However, strategy is not about perfection. It is not meant to be an analytical exercise that gets you the facts, so that once 'what is true' has been analyzed, you do X and you will be successful. Strategy is about the future and the future is never going to be the same as the past. That's the reason to combine analytical rigor with creativity to get the best possible answer/solution. I've designed and facilitated scores of Advance (instead of retreats) sessions involving elected officials and executive team members helping them c
reating a shared understanding about the future of their community and activate a path towards its realization.
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I'VE BEEN WRITING AGAIN... MUST READS FOR LEADERS - PART TWO
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In the September 2018 issue of PM magazine, I offered the first part of my "must reads" and shared books to support my version of a contemporary leadership model. In this issue, I tackle the other five aspects of my leadership model: organizational performance, strategy, talent management, management, and culture. In his book The Future of Management, Gary Hamel asserts that you must "aspire to build [an] organization that is capable of continuous self-renewal in the absence of crisis." Hamel poses the question, "What's the tomorrow problem that you need to start working on right now?" My take - is your organization changing as fast as the world around us?
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Upcoming Conference Presentations
In San Diego on April 3rd, Patrick will present "We've Always Done It That Way Is Over: What's Next?" at the
League of California Cities
Public Works Officers Institute.
On May 15th, outside Austin, Texas, Patrick will present the keynote address We've Always Done It That Way Is Over: Transforming Your Culture from the Status Quo to the Status Go!" at the
Texas Municipal Human Resource Association annual conference
Hungry for valuable content during the time between editions of Moving Forward, then follow us on
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Our consulting work takes us to terrific places and allows us the opportunity to partner with government leaders, as well as speaking at conferences. Check out our schedule as we may be in your area soon.
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03.26.19
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Tracy, CA
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03.27.19
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Reno, NV
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04.11.19
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Ontario, CA
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04.18.19
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Alhambra, CA
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Thank you for investing the time to read this edition of
Moving Forward!
Keep Getting Better,
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