A guide to leadership for in-house counsel—Part 1: Different approaches to leadership


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A guide to leadership for in-house counsel—Part 1: Different approaches to leadership


Published by a UUֱ Public Law expert

Practice notes
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This guide

This guide has been written to address the practicalities of Leadership. If you find yourself in a leadership role for the first time, this guide contains some helpful ideas that will get you started. If you are an experienced leader, you will benefit from some fresh perspectives. The ideas in this guide reflect a pragmatic view of leadership and the development of leaders, focusing on the real problems and opportunities that they face.

Leadership in the hot seat

Most experienced leaders will say their role is difficult and complex and look cynically at those books providing the five, seven or ten things that make great leaders. After all, if successful they would have produced a lot of great leaders, but they haven’t. This guide aims to help you consider your own unique leadership context in which you work and the kind of leadership that you might be called on to deliver. In-house counsel are faced with particular leadership challenges. They must move away from tried and trusted 'business

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What does Leader mean?

In a local authority operating Leader & Cabinet executive arrangements, the member elected by the council with responsibility for: determining the size of the Cabinet and appointing the members; allocating portfolios or areas of responsibility and decision-making powers to the various Cabinet Members; and removing and replacing Cabinet Members. Under changes to the Local Government Act 2000 introduced by the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, every authority operating a Leader and Cabinet model of executive must change its executive arrangements to the “Strong Leader” model in accordance with a statutory timetable set out in s.65 and Sch.4 LGPIH Act 2007. Under this model, the Leader is appointed for a 4 year term of office and may only be removed from office by a resolution of full Council.

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