Leadership Framework: Championing Innovation and Change

Why it matters

To be effective, leaders must be able to operate in an environment that is uncertain, often ambiguous and constantly changing. They need to foster creativity and accept a degree of risk to bring about improvement, and to encourage the same mindset in their teams. Leaders need to be prepared to embrace and understand the advantages of harnessing old and new technologies for managing and delivering public services in an adaptive way. Retaining accessibility to older technologies alongside the added benefits of what is 'new' as appropriate.

What it is

• Leading innovation and change throughout the organisation and partner organisations to improve the delivery of services
• Displaying a deep understanding of what the long term opportunities of change, improvement and prevention are and their relationship to delivering quality services
• Having realistic ideas for addressing these opportunities – underpinning this is a level of intellectual openness and agility
• Inspiring other people to embrace change and to be adventurous and creative in their thinking and delivery

What it is not

• Embarking on initiatives that have not been properly thought through
• Cascading ideas downwards with little participation from the team
• Change for change’s sake or resisting change
• Being unwilling to challenge existing methods or ideas
• Preferring to remain working within an established comfort zone
• Continuing to support reactive 'stop-gap' measures without taking time to analyse deeper trends

• A central project management system
• A Well-being Impact Assessment Process
• Offer internal and external training opportunities
• E-learning
• Academi Wales (external website)
• Change Management Guides
• Leadership Conference
• Leadership Microsite
• Apprenticeships and Frameworks