The Importance Of A New City Manager

Leading change is defined as “the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals.” There are six competences in which a city manager candidate must be able to achieve in order to be considered for the new city manager position.

The first competence is to be creative and innovational. The new city manager should provide new insight. He or she will need to have the confidence to question socially accepted approaches and encourage new ideas, as well as implement new or advanced programs and process. The new methods, procedures, and approaches having city-wide impact. Create new performance management evaluation that will measure staff performance is aligned with the city’s vision.

Foresees a demographic change in society and inaugurates a vision to validity change through the development and application of objectives and most of all a set of priorities. Develops and implements a strategic plan of key goals and intentions for the city as wells as leads the planning team in tackling and outlining the future direction of the city. Review the city’s current core values and mission statements while analysis input from the citizens. Creates and implements a long-term goal for the city to become sustainable and self-sufficient. The ability to capitalize on opportunities offered and manages the possible risk of doing

The new city manager must have the ability to anticipate, think critically, interpret, decide and learn. An example of a strategic thinker would be if a major hurricane were to make land fall in the city. He or she would need to anticipate some of the possible concerns of the citizens might have during a major hurricane making land fall in the city. He or she must be able to think critically about how to get information out to citizens as quickly as possible, how to prevent major damage and ways to prevent possible deaths. He or she would need to interpret what is the possible affects of the amount of what that is forecasted during the hurricane. He or she would need to decide what actions must take place to keep the citizens of the city safe, out of harms way and most of informed. Most of all he or she would need to learn from others, such as other employees, local and federal governments as well as the