Leadership and Management

Delivering Better Outcomes:
Leading Public Sector Innovation

This workshop is designed to help senior public servants think and act innovatively about challenges within their department or agency. It will assist participants to devise and implement solutions to deep and pressing problems through developing strategies  to foster innovation. More>

Managing Public Communication

This executive workshop examines the culture and ethos of the public communication role and explores strategies for proactively managing communication in a government context. More>

Managing Regulation, Enforcement and Compliance

This executive workshop examines the distinctive strategic and managerial challenges that surround government's regulatory and enforcement functions, recognising that the quality of life in a democracy depends heavily on when and how government agencies exercise their coercive power over individuals and institutions. More>

Managing Risks to Integrity in the Public Sector

Designed to develop a range of skills in the policy arena, including ‘thinking strategically’; analysis and decision-making in the policy cycle; designing policy for more effective implementation; building strategic capacity for policy-making; and the nature and use of economic tools in policy-making. More>

Policy Design and Delivery:
Influencing Public Behaviour

This workshop draws upon social psychology, behavioural economics, law and political science to understand reasons for compliance or non-compliance. It focuses on analysing why the targets of public policies frequently fail to act in the way that program designers intend, and understanding alternative approaches. More>

Strategic Budgeting in Times of Restraint

This course is suitable for all budget holders at an SES level, and operational managers with responsibility for substantial budgets and/or expenditure. More>

Transforming Education

The course is designed for senior policy makers and senior operational leaders in education systems. Typically these would be senior managers with significant responsibilities for policy, finance and operations around schools. More>