Advanced Public Sector Strategy and Leadership Essentials

By attending this course, you will be able to successfully lead public services to achieve service excellence and community objectives. You will explore:

• The specific role that is required of strategic manager in a public sector organization.
• The complexities of the relationship between paid civil servant and elected politicians in the context of public service planning and delivery.
• How each public service contributes to the economy.
• The approach to the medium/long term funding of the authority to ensure financial resilience year-on-year.
• The approach to the medium/long term planning to ensure the authority meets all of the expectations of its stakeholders.
• An overview of programme and change management for those senior officers who will be looking to employ and manage specific skilled staff and/or consultants to help achieve their organizational change 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 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.

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

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.

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.
• Implement an Action Plan at your workplace using the knowledge and skills acquired through the course.