Advanced Public Sector Strategy

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:

The reasons public and non-profit organisations (collaborations and communities) should embrace strategic planning and management as ways of improving their performance.
The elements of effective deliberation and deliberative practices.
An effective strategic planning and management process for public and non-profit organisations that has been successfully used by many thousands of public and non-profit organisations around the world – the Strategy Change Cycle.
How to apply the process including information on specific tools and techniques that might prove useful in various circumstances within organisations, across organisations, and in communities.
The major roles that must be played by various individuals and groups for strategic planning to work and how the roles are played.
The various ways in which strategic planning may be institutionalised so that strategic thinking, acting, and learning may be encouraged, embraced, and embedded across an entire organisation.
Many examples of successful (and unsuccessful) strategic planning practice.

Elected and appointed policymakers, managers, and planners in governments, public agencies, and non-profit organisations who are responsible for and who want to learn more about strategic planning and management; city council members, mayors, city managers, administrators, and planners; sheriffs, police chiefs, fire chiefs, and their staffs
School board members, administrators, and staff
County commissioners, administrators, and planners
Governors, state cabinet secretaries, administrators, and planners
Legislators; chief executive officers, chief administrative officers, chief financial officers, and chief information officers; executive directors, deputy directors, and unit directors; presidents and vice presidents; boards of directors of non-profit organisations

Certificate.