Relational Leadership: an approach to public service capability development

ANZSOG is collaborating with the Queensland Public Service Commission (QPSC) and the Business Impacts Unit (BIU) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) on a research project to address system-wide challenges of leadership development, including career transitions and generational transformation in the context of capability planning for the QPSC.

This final report from the project aims to help the QPSC to understand contemporary leadership science including the latest, evidence-based, conceptualisations of leadership. It proposes an architecture of leadership, based on the Wallace 2D leadership framework, which has the potential to provide opportunities for all members of the Queensland public sector community and beyond, to identify with a leadership journey that works for them, and has relevance to other jurisdictions.

By distilling contemporary thought and research in leadership, the report provides guidance that reflects the evidence, and will work for Queensland and have relevance to other jurisdictions.

The project team has previously conducted an evidence review that compares leadership enablement approaches from across several jurisdictions, as well as gathering insights on QPS’s existing leadership foundations.