Executive Workshops

ANZSOG now has numerous executive workshops available, dealing with a broad range of public sector management issues.

Our executive workshops are designed with:

• an interactive case teaching approach.
• strategic use of experts and practitioners to explore public sector issues.
• extensive consultation with key public sector experts on the specific issues facing public sector managers.

As an alumnus you receive the exclusive benefit of:

• 15% discount on short course tuition fees.

Please click on the following links for further information on specific workshops, or to express your interest in future courses as they are developed.

• Crisis and Emergency Management
  
  Course leader: Prof Dutch Leonard
  
  Using case studies from Australia and the United States, this short course will examine key concepts of effective organisation and action in both routine emergency situations and true crises. Building on lessons from experiences with the 2003 Canberra fires and Cyclone Larry as well as Hurricane Katrina and other salient crisis examples, the course proposes a different way of thinking about what we are trying to achieve in organising in advance and in conducting ourselves in the midst of emergency and crisis events.
  
  
• Economics for Public Sector Managers
  
  Course leaders: Prof Nilss Olekalns and Prof Ross Guest
  
  This workshop is specifically designed for middle and senior managers who would like to gain an understanding of the economic basis for the public sector and the underpinning principles essential for effective policy decision making.
  
  
• Managing Regulation, Enforcement and Compliance
  
  Course leader: Prof Malcolm Sparrow
  
  This popular workshop is designed for senior policy makers and senior officials who oversee, support or run organisations that have a significant regulatory or enforcement component. The workshop focuses on the unique strategic and managerial challenges of government's regulatory and enforcement functions.
  
  
• Managing Risks to Public Sector Integrity
  
  Course leader: Malcolm Sparrow
  
  This executive workshop seeks to provide a clear executive-level view of the threats to public sector integrity, and the variety of approaches and systems available to manage such risks.
  
  
• Managing IT in the Public Sector
  
  Course leader: Mike Vitale
  
  Information technology is evolving rapidly, and it is becoming increasingly important for senior managers involved in IT projects, partnerships, and future planning to have a framework for achieving successful IT ventures. Managing IT in the Public Sector is a successful, proven workshop that gives participants a powerful set of tools that can be transferred immediately to any current IT situation.
  
  
• Policy and Strategy for the Innovation Economy
  
  Course leader: Prof Jonathan West
  
  Innovation is at the forefront of the debate on lifting and sustaining Australia's productivity and economic performance. This short course is designed for public sector executives with an interest in the dynamics of the innovation economy and in assessing the appropriate roles that government can play in acting as a catalyst in the process. Government's primary contribution to stimulating innovation is to tune the policy settings to facilitate and remove regulatory and other barriers that inhibit private sector action.
  
  
• Policy Skills Program
  
  Course leaders: Prof John Alford and Dr Deirdre O’Neill
  
  This is a four-day course designed to develop a range of skills in the policy arena. Topics include: how government works; the policy process, including the policy cycle, analysis, options and decision-making; the nature and use of economic tools in policy-making; stakeholder engagement; and building strategic capacity for policy-making.
  
  
• Strategic Media Management
  
  Course leader: Peter Thompson
  
  The relationship between the public sector and Australia's media is one that is multifaceted, and at times unfairly weighted in favour of the journalist. Strategic Media Management, looks at strategies designed for proactively managing media issues in the public sector. The program aims to provide practical tools and media handling techniques to assist the role of the public sector manager.
  
  
• Expression of Interest Form