Developing and Deploying Strategy in Government

The public sector is a dynamic and complex environment where there is a continuing demand for the skills and expertise to drive greater effectiveness, innovation and efficiency. Today’s government and public sector challenges demand strategic, responsible and ethical executive leadership.

Public executives are under increased pressure to produce results, and to produce them now. Indeed, in every public agency, the leadership team faces the challenge of ratcheting up performance in a way that produces real results that citizens value, and that generates the resources and flexibility needed to do even better in the future.

But what results? How are results to be selected? How defined? What exactly would it mean to improve performance? How will the leaders and employees of an organization know when they have, indeed, ratcheted their performance up a significant notch? How will legislators know? How will citizens know?

And what works? Given limited resources and flexibility, how can public executives achieve such improvements? What approaches will prove effective in what circumstances? How can public executives measure performance in a way that motivates both employees and collaborators? How can public executives adapt strategies that have been successfully employed in other circumstances to produce meaningful results in their own, unique organizations?

Tony Dean, Professor in the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government will be giving a detailed training module titled “Developing and Deploying Strategy in Government” in the Madinah Institute for Leadership & Entrepreneurship’s next executive education program; Leadership Program on High Performance Governments which will be commencing May 7th and ends May 11th, 2011 and will be held in Madinah, Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Tony Dean will talk about concepts, principles and practice, and lead round-table assignments for seminar participants. Dean will focus on global best practices, with an emphasis on policy capacity, prioritization, and effective delivery. Two internationally recognized case studies will be presented.

Dr. Dean is also an advisor to governments and international organizations on public service reform and on building capacity for policy and delivery. Dean is a recipient of the Order of Ontario. He serves on the Board of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, and serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance. In 2010, Dean chaired an expert panel examining workplace health and safety in Ontario. Dean’s report, presented to the Minister of Labor in December 2010, has been described as a road-map to safer work sites in Ontario. Dean has written on public administration and leadership for the Public Policy Forum, Canadian Government Executive magazine, and for The Guardian newspaper’s magazine Public. Dean has a B.A. in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Hull, U.K., and an M.A. in Sociology from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.

If you are interested in learning more about the Leadership Program on High Performance Governments and other upcoming executive education programs please visit www.mile.org or view videos of professors in action on http://www.youtube.com/user/milemadinah.