Leadership in planning
Leadership styles, influence without authority and sources of power, the public interest, ethical advocacy, leading change, emotional intelligence, and promoting the value of planning.
Lesson 28 of 40 · about 28 minutes
Learning objectives
- Distinguish leadership from management, and compare transformational, transactional, servant, and adaptive leadership.
- Explain how planners lead without formal authority ("leading from the middle"), and name the sources of power that make influence possible.
- Describe the public interest as a contested standard and how planners discern and advance it.
- Apply the ethics of advocacy, including how to respond when a governing body rejects your recommendation.
- Build support for difficult change, using a model such as Kotter's eight steps and the skills of emotional intelligence, and communicate the value of planning.
Key concepts
Leadership and management
Management keeps an organization running well: budgets, schedules, staffing, procedures. Leadership sets direction, builds commitment, and helps people and communities deal with change. Planners need both, and leadership isn't limited to directors. A planner facilitating a neighborhood process or coordinating five departments on a corridor study is leading.
10 more sections follow in the full lesson.
Create a free account to see the rest of this lesson
Every lesson and all five full-length practice exams are free. An account keeps your scores and progress in one place so you can see where to study next.
Just looking? The list of lessons and the sample questions are open to everyone.