Municipal Leaders: Develop Faster, Lead Stronger, Build Better
Every week, you’ll get insights and actionable steps to help you navigate personal growth and professional success.
You’ve got capable people in your organization, who have good intentions and enough experience to handle almost anything your community throws at you.
And yet something keeps getting in the way.
Initiatives stall. Decisions get made and quietly unmade. Hard conversations happen everywhere except the room where they need to happen. And somewhere along the way, you became the only person holding the whole thing together.
Patrick Lencioni wrote the book on exactly why this happens. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is one of the most widely read leadership books of the last two decades, and for good reason. His model is precise, practical, and uncomfortably accurate.
But Lencioni wrote it for the private sector.
Nobody has done the work of translating it into the specific realities of local government — the civil service structures, the elected oversight, the fishbowl environment, the peer accountability gaps that form when directors have been in their seats longer than you’ve been their manager or adminstrator.
That’s exactly what we’re doing inside the MLDC this month.
Over five days of content, including daily blog posts and podcast episodes, will take you through Lencioni’s framework to help you implement the best insights straight into your unique context. We’ll look at what vulnerability-based trust looks like when professional risk is public and visible, why conflict avoidance gets structurally rewarded in local government, and what it takes to build a team where accountability doesn’t all flow upward to you.
This is the kind of leadership development that doesn’t exist anywhere else for people in your role.
The Municipal Leadership Development Circle is a membership platform built specifically for local government leaders — city managers, county administrators, department heads — who are serious about growing in this work. Every week, a new book. Every day, content translated directly into your context. And a community of peers navigating the same terrain alongside you.
If you’ve been thinking about joining, this is a good week to do it.
Learn More Here: HaltingWinter.com/MLDC
The Municipal Leadership Development Circle (MLDC) is a professional growth community exclusively for city/county managers, administrators, and local government leaders. Each week, we explore insights from transformative books and apply them specifically to the unique challenges of municipal leadership. Join Seth Winterhalter, President of HaltingWinter Municipal Solutions, and leaders from across North America to build stronger cities through stronger leaders. Learn more at HaltingWinter.com/MLDC.
