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Investing in Leadership with Bradley Fauteux

November 4, 2014 by Jody Maberry

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Bradley Fauteux is the Managing Director of Ontario Parks, and the first international guest of the Park Leaders Show.

Bradley Fauteux, Managing Director of Ontario Parks
Bradley Fauteux, Managing Director of Ontario Parks

After a stint as a professional musician, Bradley began a career in Government and has become the ultimate generalist.  Fauteux had been working towards the job of Managing Director for ten years. He spent those years acquiring the skills he would need for the job and building a network of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances to learn from.

Fauteux is only the fourth person to serve as Managing Director of Ontario Parks. He is also the Chairman of the Canadian Parks Council.

Fauteux discusses some of the programs Ontario Parks has had success with:

Learn to Camp program helps first-time campers learn the basics so they can enjoy the outdoors. Nine Thousand campers have participated in the program with a 75% rate of return and a 98% satisfaction rate. The Learn to Camp program won the Provincial Tourism Innovator of the Year Award.

The Life Jacket Loaner program designed to prevent drowning by providing life jackets to people going in the water at more than 60 parks. Both programs are backed by generous corporate sponsors.

The leadership program is an intensive 1-week program where colleagues get together and work through leadership challenges. This is an investment in leadership to ensure Ontario Parks will have great leaders across the organization.

Fauteux offers this wisdom to leaders:

• When pursuing a job, know the people, values, mission statement, and priorities to show you are committed and mature enough to lead. Prior to a job interview, you should have already become a known commodity through networking.

• Once you have a leadership position you should seek advice and listen, learn about the people you work with, and make sure people understand your values.

• Hire staff based on engagement, preparation, commitment, creativity, and awareness. You want to hire someone you would want to follow.

 

 

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  1. Jorge Figueiredo says

    November 4, 2014 at 10:14 am

    Great interview!

    • Jody Maberry says

      November 4, 2014 at 9:37 pm

      Thanks Jorge. Bradley was indeed a great guest.

  2. Helen says

    September 16, 2016 at 3:35 am

    Sounds like someone subscribes to the ‘do as I say, not as I do’ style of leadership… http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/parks-victoria-boss-forced-to-resign-over-inappropriate-behaviour-20160914-grfsym.html

  3. Jacob B says

    September 1, 2017 at 6:26 am

    Great Interview Bradley Fauteux!
    Thanks to Park Leaders Show for his interview.

    • Jody Maberry says

      September 8, 2017 at 5:43 pm

      Thank you for listening, Jacob.

  4. Lilly Ken says

    September 6, 2017 at 12:24 pm

    Impressive Interview of Bradley Fauteux.
    Liked it.

    • Jody Maberry says

      September 8, 2017 at 5:43 pm

      Thanks for listening to the show.

  5. J. Edouard says

    September 8, 2017 at 10:51 am

    Too often people don’t bother getting to know the people they work with every day. This is just bad for team moral and bad for business in general. Talk to your employees and try to understand their concerns and always be open to their ideas.

    • Jody Maberry says

      September 8, 2017 at 5:43 pm

      You are right. It pays off to get to know people. Thanks for listening to the show.

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