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The TSL program seeks to enable people who have recently entered senior executive positions (or are about to do so) to successfully make the transition from their former operational/tactical to their current/future strategic leadership roles. The program will be delivered over two five-day residential modules:

• Module I: Managing Complexity and interdependence (15-19 November 2010, Melbourne)
• Module II: Managing Change (7-11 February 2011, Sydney)

Who should attend?

Towards Strategic Leadership (TSL) is a program specifically designed for people moving from tactical into strategic leadership roles in government, i.e. people facing senior executive responsibilities for the first time.

Participant benefits

After completing this course, participants should:

1. operate successfully at the nexus of politics and administration within the Australian and New Zealand government systems
2. be equipped to effectively analyse and manage complex, intractable policy issues
3. be effective partners in holistic, horizontal, collaborative governance settings and processes
4. have the tools and habits for dealing strategically and reflexively with various forms of contingency, crisis and change in and around their organisations
5. have an increased self-awareness and self-confidence as leaders and team players, and
6. have learned and experimented with forms of adaptive leadership.

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Selection process

Unlike other ANZSOG core programs (the EMPA and the EFP), there is no commitment from jurisdictions to provide a set number of participants. The program has a maximum of 40 places, so not all applications will be automatically accepted. A selection committee will meet after the closing date to discuss applications and decide on the final cohort. This process will help to ensure that applicants meet all relevant criteria and are at the right level for the program. In addition, the selection committee will endeavour to maintain as much balance as possible across jurisdictions, departments and gender, in order to facilitate the process of cross-jurisdictional learning.

 Professor Paul ‘t Hart

Overall program coordination lies with ANZSOG faculty member Professor Paul ‘t Hart of the Australian National University and Utrecht University, who will also take a significant part in the delivery. A Dutch Australian, Paul ‘t Hart arrived here in late 2005 and is now Professor of Political Science at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, and Professor of Public Administration, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is an adjunct professor of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government, where he convenes the Leading Public Sector Change course in the EMPA program.

A former associate dean of the Netherlands School of Government responsible for its MPA and Police Leadership programs, Paul taught and trained thousands of mid-career and senior officials within the public service, military, police and emergency services in The Netherlands, Sweden and Australia. Paul’s research, teaching and training activities focus on public leadership, political-administrative relations, crisis management, policy evaluation and public accountability. A multiple prize-winning author, Paul’s recent monographs and volumes include: The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure (CUP 2005), Observing Government Elites: Up Close and Personal (Palgrave 2007), Governing After Crisis (CUP 2008), The New Eurocrats (Amsterdam UP 2008), Public Leadership (ANU E Press 2008) Dispersed Democratic Leadership (OUP 2009), the Real World of EU Accountability: Which Deficit? (OUP 2010) and How Power Changes Hands: Transition and Succession in Government (Palgrave 2010).

In addition to Paul ‘t Hart, a small core of highly experienced experts (including current and former senior public executives) will be involved in delivery of the program. The program will employ a range of learning formats, including interactive case studies, peer feedback teams, and on-site action learning within organisations and communities. 

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