Leadership Framework: Drive and Resilience

Why it matters

Demonstrates commitment to delivering the right services for citizens. To improve performance and cope with the pressures of turbulent change, leaders need both a high level of drive and resolute persistence in following through on objectives, along with the ability to develop this attitude in the rest of the team. Shares common goals and the pressure arising from setbacks, reduces isolation and ensures the best use of resources.

What it is

• The ability to remain focused and positive
• Displays an appropriate level of self-confidence in the face of difficult circumstances. Recovers quickly from setbacks and maintains own and the team's morale
• Sets demanding objectives and tackles them with energy, pace, passion and determination, Inspires the same level of energy in others
• Displays realistic optimism when responding to challenges

What it is not

• Driving forward without checking that others have come with you
• Assuming that because you can cope with pressure everyone else in the team can too
• Becoming overly cautious and inhibited at the first sign of a setback
• Failing to accept or seek help
• Setting unrealistically high aspirations or targets.
• Holding to a fixed mindset

• The Council's flexible working policy supports work/life balance
• Internal and external training opportunities
• One to ones
• Secondment opportunities
• E-learning
• Academi Wales (external website)
• Learning resources
• Leadership Microsite
• Psychometric Assessments (OPQ's)
• Apprenticeships and Frameworks