At a Glance: Leadership qualities for future government
Fast learner
Takes weeks not months to pick up new skills.
Systems thinker
Intuitively understands service and enterprise architecture.
Future scanner
Can see tech and cultural changes before they arrive.
Ground-level awareness
Knows how policy is playing out in reality.
Cross-organisational operator
Breaks through siloes to build collaborative projects.
Culturally attuned
Gets the organisational culture and can sell ideas into it.
Human-centric
Build services around the needs of the end user, not the organisation.
Adaptable and resilient
Moves quickly to respond to a fast-changing world.
Iterative thinker
Test, adapts and listens to feedback loops to design solutions.
Digitally literate
Understands how to apply technology to improve outcomes.
Data-driven
Uses data to inform the decision, design & operation of services.
Ethically aware
Prioritises privacy and security in digital government.