Strategic Thinking for Maximum Impact

Enabling public sector professionals to operate more strategically, collaboratively, and successfully in response to complex situations and workloads.

Adopting more agile and collaborative ways of working can create high-performing teams that effectively collaborate to solve complex and ambiguous problems, making teams in the public sector future-ready and positioned to respond to challenges as they arise.

Our Strategic Thinking for Maximum Impact course empowers all public sector professionals to become strategic operators regardless of their role or jurisdiction. It equips them with invaluable skills to dissect complex problems, translate requests into actionable plans, and collaborate seamlessly.

Learning Outcomes

Understand the overall components of our BeHOLISTIC™ Framework, providing a holistic approach to change and transformation programs
Define attributes of strategic teams and teams with a culture of inquiry
Analyse the context of a request to determine underlying expectations
Conduct a PESTLE analysis to assist with environmental scanning
Analyse tasks to identify scope requirements from a request
Construct qualification questions to clarify scope and questions
Define gold-plating and scope creep
Apply the energy line principle to tasks to avoid gold-plating and determine appropriate tasks input
Develop simple prototypes and retrospectives
Develop different ways of working based on key methodologies
Map team inter-dependencies and identify opportunities to operate more strategically and collaboratively
Communicate in complex simulated scenarios requiring collaboration
Strategically problem solve in a group with limited resources for shared success

Micro-credentials gained

Foundations in Strategic Thinking
Foundations in Decision-Making
Foundations in Prioritisation
Foundations in Team Building
Foundations in Workforce Dynamics

Course details

Format: Live Online and In Person available

Duration: 4 weeks

Time: 2.5 hours per week

Cost: $1,500 per person

Date: 21st Nov - 19th Dec

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Course outline

• Explore what strategic thinking means, and how to foster a strategic thinking lens
• Brainstorm the why: what our leaders and internal stakeholders are driven by
• Foster a growth mindset and team culture of inquiry
• Group Activity: Uncover the stinky fish, an exercise in building a growth mindset
• Examine the factors at play when undertaking tasks including gold-plating and scope creep
• A structured approach to analysing effort and detail required when approaching tasks and requests using the ‘energy line’
• Group Activity: Clarifying scope
• Exploring the linkages behind your teams and the structures that support them, including a group dependency mapping exercise
• Exploration with mini activities to understand best practice habits formation including agile and design thinking methodologies
• Group Activity: Prototyping and Retrospectives
• Explore healthy discussions and communicating in trusting teams for better strategic outcomes including establishing mutual understanding and decision-making quickly
• Group Activity: Whole group simulation involving opportunities to communicate for strategic collaboration and shared success