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What You Need to Know
About this section
This section aligns with key area of Positioning the Sector in the LSC Strategy for Sustainable Development, recognising that the sector will not be able to position itself as a strong contributor to sustainable development without effective leadership and management of sustainable development. The section identifies essential processes to implement sustainability practices within the FE system.
This section is aimed leaders at all levels within the FE system but might be of particular use to senior executives and managers. It presents a step-by-step approach to identifying a business case for implementing sustainable development, and how to follow this with the development and implementation of a sustainable development action plan to achieve the principles and practices of sustainable development within the scope of management responsibilities.
This section provides tools, guidance and examples of how you can take the lead and/or become part of managing the process of embedding sustainable development within your organisation.
Leadership and Management in a Nutshell
Leadership is the process of influencing the thinking and behaviour of others and is essential in building the competence and confidence of everyone in an organisation to deliver sustainable development. Management is implementing and embedding processes and practices to achieve an organisation’s vision and mission.
Effective leadership and management of sustainable development are necessary at all levels. Gaining internal commitment at the senior level is crucial to embedding sustainable development within an organisation. This section is aimed at leaders and managers of organisations within the FE system, as well as others who have an interest and a role in helping embed sustainable development into the organisation, for example head of curriculum, sustainable development champion, buildings manager.
Leaders exist at all levels within education and in every sector and they have a vital role to play. From chief executives/ principals through to teachers and lecturers, all have a crucial role to play in supporting the transition to sustainable development and global citizenship by:
- guiding organisations’ strategic planning;
- ensuring the delivery of high quality teaching and learning
- managing estates and major capital programmes; and
- leading the organisations’ interactions with external partners and stakeholders.
Leaders can raise the status of sustainable development within their organisations or remit, as they are able to create a climate where sustainable development can flourish. They also have a symbolic role in influencing the views of others about sustainable development and global citizenship. Thus it is extremely important that leaders have the skills to take decisions which are compatible with this agenda.
In achieving whole organisational approaches to embedding sustainable development, it is vital that an effective management structure is established from the outset, and most importantly, one that has true commitment from the senior level.
