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JEAN HARTLEY:

Another challenge is mobilising people to support your leadership goals. In fact, there are some definitions of leadership which talk about leadership being about mobilising people's time, people's attention, people's resources to achieve particular outcomes. So, thinking about- who do you need to get on board- get the support for what it is you want to do? That obviously is going to include your team.

But there may be people wider in the organisation who need to understand what it is you're doing or whose work overlaps with yours or who need to understand, as they pass work on to you, what it is you will be doing with it. You may need to maintain the reputation of your part of the organisation, or help other people understand what it is that your team contributes to a wider purpose.

So, actually thinking about, if you like, not just mobilising your own team, but mapping out who are the stakeholders to what it is that you do, and how to encourage them to understand and support what it is you're doing. That may include members of the public. It may include customers and suppliers. So you may need to think quite broadly about who needs to know about your work.