What is the Senior Executive Leadership Capability Framework?
This Framework seeks to establish a shared understanding of the critical success factors for performance in APS leadership roles.
The Framework identifies the five core criteria for high performance by senior executives. Each of the criteria heads a group of inter-related capabilities. The Framework does not describe the functions or responsibilities of particular senior executive roles.
We currently have a pool of good agency leaders who deliver in the context of their agencies. What we are now working towards is a group of leaders who can both lead their agencies well and work together to have an impact across the entire State Sector system. This is not an easy shift but one that, with focused effort and the right incentives in place, will deliver the types of leadership required to enable us to deliver better collectively.
This Leadership Success Profile (LSP) has been designed to have an inclusive view around leadership. It is for the many, not the few. This is a different model of leadership than we have exercised before.
Today’s civil servants are addressing problems of
unprecedented complexity in societies that are more pluralistic
and demanding than ever. At the same time, the systems
and tools of governance are increasingly digital, open and
networked. Civil servants need the right skills to keep pace.
This presents a double challenge: the first is to identify which
skills will be needed for a civil service which is fit-for-purpose
today and into the future; the second is to figure out how
civil services can invest in these skills – through attraction,
recruitment and development – to improve policies and
services.