In 2013, the Staff College, formally known as the Virtual Staff College (VSC), commissioned The Colebrooke Centre in collaboration with the Cass Business School, to carry out the first major UK study of systems leadership for public services. Given the degree of volatility and uncertainty currently dominating decisions public service leaders are having to make,…
A companion piece for the Systems Leadership synthesis paper, this work reviews the published literature on systems leadership, seeking particularly to ascertain whether there is a clear agreement of how to define the subject of systems leadership and whether there is any consensus about the desirable characteristics for it to be effective. The paper seeks a specific…
This is one of a suite of papers from The Colebrooke Centre and Cass Business School’s research on systems leadership for the Staff College, formally known as the Virtual Staff College (VSC). It draws on 29 interviews with strategic leaders operating in public service systems that include or connect with children’s services. The objectives were…
Part of a suite of papers from The Colebrooke Centre and Cass Business School’s research on systems leadership for the Staff College, formally known as the Virtual Staff College (VSC). This paper is intended to be read alongside other papers, particularly the Synthesis Paper. In this paper, we describe three case studies of systems leadership…
Four short papers were commissioned to provide brief overviews of each jurisdiction, focusing on children’s’ services. The four countries selected were USA, Canada, Australia and Denmark. The work was intended to support and expand the frame of reference for the UK-based research activities associated with this project, and whilst these countries were chosen on the…