Advanced Public Sector Strategy and Leadership

Course Outline

Overview

By attending this course, you will explore the specific role that is required of strategic managers in an organization with a more detailed examination of some key elements.

You will also be able to successfully lead public services to achieve service excellence and community objectives.

This course embarks into the essential fundamental aspects of leadership on your career pathway. Set over the course using a combination of discussion debates, case studies, research and immersion sessions, you will explore experientially how to emerge more fully as a leader and to harness the workforce to transform.

The course will also include site visits to organizations relevant to the course so delegates can develop an understanding of how their contemporaries function in the real-world.

The course will wrap with a summary of the key learning points, followed by an action planning exercise with a view to apply the acquired knowledge and skills immediately upon your return to work. Post-course support is also available in relation to the implementation of your action plan, up to six (6) months following course completion.

Agenda

• Public Sector Strategic Management
• Politics and the Public Sector
• Aligning the Public Sector to Support the Economy
• Public Sector Finance Strategy
• Public Sector Strategic Planning
• Public Sector – Leading Strategic Change
• Leadership – The Pursuit of Excellence
• Key Leadership Qualities
• Decision-Making Skills
• Site Visits
• Action Planning

Target Audience

This course is suitable for:

• Directors and Deputy Directors, and all other public sector senior officers who:
• work directly to lead politicians and with other public services to achieve broader community outcomes (public health and well-being and economic development).
• are responsible for achieving the authority’s strategic objectives and can commit the resources to achieve them.
• Directors and Heads of Departments.
• Senior Managers and High Performance Executives.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Focus on ensuring that the authority and its services are fit for purpose in the current, medium and long term.
• Keep a strategic overview of service delivery.
• Understand when and how to ‘intervene’ in the authority’s operations.
• ‘step-up’ to lead the whole service.
• Define service outcomes.
• Understand the responsibilities of the service ‘end-to-end’ manager.
• Comprehensively understand leadership principles and apply them.
• Explore the leadership styles and the psychological basis that underpins great leadership.
• Apply high level decision-making approaches to deliver robust leadership strategies.- Develop a practical perspective into contemporary work practices in your field.
• Implement an Action Plan at your workplace using the knowledge and skills acquired through the course.