Legacy Program for State and Local Public Service Leaders
Case study work session, April 2000
The Legacy Program is designed to assist participants in using their leadership assets to transform individual and collective visions into institutional and policy legacies that enrich our state and local systems of democratic governance and their service to citizens.
The Legacy Program assumes that effective leadership requires the development and integration of four distinctive sets of knowledge and skills:
Individual Leader, focusing on an assessment of one's individual capacity for risk-taking and leadership strengths and weaknesses.
Group/Team, focusing on what is needed to work together with others in groups and team settings.
Organizational, focusing on using an organization's personnel, budgeting, structural, cultural and other systems to transform leadership visions into enduring legacies.
Community, focusing on developing inter-organizational, inter-jurisdictional and inter-institutional capacities for building effective solutions that create and sustain common agreement and commitment to collective action.
Enhancing Leadership Capacity:
Organizational Benefits
The Legacy Program is an investment in enhancing leadership capacity. Participants will acquire a stronger understanding of:
- Decision-making frameworks for transforming policy visions into administrative reality.
- Effective solution-building approaches that create and sustain agreement over time.
- How to interact with the press and media for effective leadership.
- How to maximize, analyze and evaluate the use of experts and scientific information in decision-making.
- Strategies for collaboration across organizational, jurisdictional and institutional lines.
- Citizen-involvement opportunities and constraints.
- The role and function of social capital in transforming visions into institutional and communal legacies.
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