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The rules are changing in local government, and leading it isn’t the game it used to be. Today’s local leaders are at the heart of their communities – it is up to them to provide the imagination and the inspiration to create a community out of a place. |
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Leadership development for the long term The Leadership Centre recommends top practicioners |
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A must have talent-spotter's recrutiment manual for the 2010 London elections. |
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London is the world's most culturally mixed city and yet politically it does not reflect the richness of its 7.4 million inhabitants. Widening participation and encouraging a more diverse range of people to become councillors is essential if local government in London is to truly benefit from the contribution that all its citizens can make. |
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State of the suburbs More than 80 per cent of us live in areas that can be classified as suburban and yet 'suburbs' have played a secondary role in regeneration and urban policy. This report contends that 'city-suburbs' are in fact an organic and correlative part of the vitality of the 'city-region' and aims to start the debate that will put suburbs on the map. |
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The Leadership Centre for Local Government has designed the new Civic Pride initiative to encourage confident, capable and visionary local leadership. |
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Dorset is a very good example of an area which, while understanding the need for all the authorities to work together, welcomed an outside resource to make that happen, to pull people together and create a common agenda. Read on to find out how the Leadership Centre helped the seven authorities involved reach a common sense of purpose. |
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Preparing to take power requires detailed research. You need to consider all your policies not as hypothetical ideas that can be used to make political points, but as part of a real-world programme that will be judged according to what it delivers for residents. |
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Politics of Place is an argument about the centrality of place and place shaping as the key role of local government, a guide to a theoretical framework to underpin thinking and work and a practical toolkit with case studies from leading authorities. |
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An eight-point manifesto for leadership which reveals the challenges that face local authorities today. |
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Developing by doing: Swindon's leadership journey How does the Leadership Centre actually work with authorities to develop their leadership capacity? Find out in this case study. |
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Politics matters: making cabinets more effective How the Leadership Centre's cabinet development centres can help cabinets work better. |
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Civic leadership for the new century The conclusions of a series of workshops organised among a range of political, managerial and community leaders in local government by the Leadership Centre which looked at the major issues facing local government over the coming years. |
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Chief executives and leaders: what you really think The results of our MORI survey of chief executives and leaders, to find out what they think about leadership development and to understand their priorities and concerns. |
If you would like a hard copy of any of these publications, please email (info@localleadership.gov.uk)
