As someone who worked within the public sector for over half of my career in accounting and consulting, it is fair to say that leaders in the sector face some enormous challenges.

The traditional approach when it comes to expenditure reduction is to come up with a list of initiatives that deliver the required levels of savings.

The trouble is that these lists rarely deliver to the promised or expected levels.

Right now all of the messages are indicating that cuts in the region of 25% are going to have to be made to deal with the level of the deficit in public finances.

Given this level of challenge, there may well be a need for leaders to start asking a very different question.

Rather than asking the question what cuts can we make, perhaps the question to be answered is what level of services can we afford to provide with this level of money available.

Taking this approach will require courage from leaders, not just those employed in the public sector but also from the politicians too.

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to become highly effective leaders. You can sign up here for his free audio e-course.

As a leader your goal is to deliver results. So what might be stopping you getting results?

5 Traps For New Leaders

Trap 1:
• Not stepping into the new role.

Trap 2:

• Not hiring the best deputy that you can.

Trap 3:

• Not letting go of the detail.

Trap 4:

• Not investing the time getting to know your colleagues on the leadership team.

Trap 5:

• Expecting it to be an easy transition.

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here

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Let me ask you a question: What’s your priority as leader?

Interestingly, when I ask clients this question they often struggle to come up with an answer.

Yet, without knowing your priorities, you will:

• Struggle with decisions on how to allocate your time.
• Carry on doing things that you should no longer be doing.
• Waste time and effort.
• Struggle to deliver the results you are expected to deliver.

So if you want to be a more successful leader, make a point of identifying your priorities.

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here

As a leader, you want to deliver the best results possible. There is nothing wrong with this and, at the same time, it is important to manage expectations.

Set the bar too high and you will set yourself up for failure. Set the bar too low and you will be accused of taking the easy option.

Managing expectations is a tough call to make. It starts with being clear on where you are now. Next comes an honest assessment of where you want to get to and by when. Then there is the inevitable reality check. If this is missing, you run the risk of making promises at, or setting expectations at, a level that is just too high.

The Bottom Line: Successful leadership is as much about setting and managing expectations as it is aiming high. The challenge is to get the balance right.

Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to achieve success and realize their professional potential through being highly effective leaders and managers. For more information and to sign up for his free audio e-course click here

As a new leader you want to deliver great results. However, there are some traps to avoid if you want to deliver as a leader.

Find out what in this short video. As always, if there are traps of your own that you think others should avoid, please leave a comment.

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