Transcript Young.pps - Building Leadership for Health

Barbara Young
Chief Executive
Environment Agency
Making it Happen
• The development of strategy in public
organisations
My experience of strategy
development
• UK National Health Service - health care for half
a million people
• RSPB - Europe’s largest conservation charity
• Anglian Water - a global water and
infrastructure commercial company
• BBC - a world renown public service
broadcaster
• The Environment Agency
Similarities
• Value driven, professional staff
• Important to the public - services that matter
• Politically high profile - management in the
goldfish bowl
• Multiple stakeholders and multiple
accountabilities
Preparing for strategy
development
• Scenarios
• SWOT
• Stakeholders
The Vision for our Environment:
Making it Happen
Our Vision is:
A healthy, rich and
diverse environment in
England and Wales, for
present and future
generations
The Nine Themes for the Future
• a better quality of life
• an enhanced
environment for wildlife
• cleaner air for everyone
• improved and protected
inland and coastal
waters
• restored, protected
land with healthier soils
• a ’greener’ business
world
• wiser, sustainable use
of natural resources
• limiting and adapting to
climate change
• reducing flood risk
Making it happen
‘Environmental Outcomes’
‘The Future Agency’
Vision
Priority Outcomes
Values
National
National
National
National
targets
targets
targets
targets
Roles
Changing
National to
National
National
ensure
success
targets
targets
targets
Nature of targets:
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Environmental outcome-focussed
Challenging but achievable
Measurable
Cover both doing and influencing activities
Existing and new actions
VISION
The Future
Agency
Better quality of life
Enhanced environment for
wildlife
Cleaner Air
Improved inland & coastal
waters
Restored, protected land
Greener business world
Sustainable use of natural
resources
VALUES
Focus on Environmental
Outcomes
Climate change
Reducing flood risk
By working in effective
Partnerships
By being robust
And by being flexible,
embracing change, learning and
improvement
Exert real influence
ROLES
Efficient Operator
Modern Regulator
Influential Advisor
Informative Communicator
catalysing change
Champion of the
environment within the
context of sustainable
development
The change projects
Influential
Advisor,
Catalytic
Convertor
Supporting
Technology
Developing
People
Efficient
Operator
Modern
Regulator
Driving Corporate
Performance
The Future Agency
Making it happen:
Developing local contributions
Your Local Contribution
Local outcomes
and targets
Making it
happen
Stakeholders and staff commitment
Local Dialogue
“HOW do we make it happen?”
and
“HOW will we measure progress?”
Local changes
and resources
Purpose
• Turning the Vision into action
• Define how we contribute to
‘Making it happen’
• Provide a focus for all employees
• Form a basis for dialogue with key external
partners
The Vision for our Environment:
Making it Happen
Developing support for the
strategy
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The sinusoidal curve
Using the cynics
Forging the partnerships
Signing up the customers
Leadership and strategy
• This vision is exciting!
• It’s good to care - walking and talking the values
Leadership and strategy
• Anyone around here who isn’t confused, doesn’t
understand what’s going on.
Organisational development and
strategy
• Training and development - strategic objectives
• Sheep dip - shared language and values
• Loose/tight - setting people free
Strategy in a changing world
• Change is a natural process - be a cockroach,
not a dodo
• Change is not predictable
• Scanning the external world
• Keeping your eye on the horizon
• Grasping opportunity
Strategy in a changing world
• It’s about outcomes
Barbara Young
Chief Executive
Environment Agency