Sunday, October 7, 2007

Bill Strickland, “Leadership”, ICMA Conference 2007, October 7, 2007


This was a presentation by a Leader who developed successful training facilities for low-income residents who had previously been considered untrainable. Some thoughts:

-“Environment drives behavior”

-“Life is about the small things”

-If you want people to behave in a certain way, you need to provide them with role models of how you want them to behave.

-Way you think about people drives behavior

-Peoples behavior is a function of expectations.

Besides being inspirational, I got some ideas on increasing expectations and developing examples of behavior I expect of City personnel. While it is not as nearly dramatic, it will help improve the performance of the City if we incorporate these thoughts.

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