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Reflection On Leadership And Governance

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Using my personal knowledge and experience, the following reflection will state why the ten values highlighted above are important in leadership and governance. After each explanation there will be an example to support the reasoning. The reflection will use “the government” as a leader to reflect on leadership and governance. Specifically, the government will refer to any ministry at the provincial level and it is not specific to one leader, to a group of leaders (members of provincial parliament, ministry, public servants etc.) or to a particular organization (ministry, unit, department etc.).

The first two values for good leadership and governance are achievement/success and effectiveness. The government needs to make decisions which effectively reach its goals and visions. If the government is unable to achieve any achievements or success, it suggests that leadership is poor. The ineffective leadership may suggest that current governance practices are inappropriate. For example, in 2006, the Ministry of Education in Ontario stated that their goal was to have 75% of Grade 6 students achieve the provincial standard (70%) in reading, writing and math. According to the results, in 2015-2016, writing was at 80%, reading was at 81%, and math was at 50%. The results suggest that the leadership and governance of the initiative was successful in reading and writing, but the lack of success in math suggests that the approach to addressing the lack of math knowledge

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