Are you a leader looking to bring innovation to your agency or department?

IS THIS COURSE RIGHT FOR YOU?

Do you lead an agency or department? Are you keen to learn more about how you can bring innovation to your department, and the tools and techniques to implement it?

Would your work benefit from a stronger alignment of innovation to your department’s strategies, and are you keen to explore your role in developing the cultural conditions to encourage this innovation?

Public sector organisations need to come up with new ideas, try new approaches and work in new ways. Together with the rapidly evolving media landscape, aided by technology, the way people interact with the government is rapidly changing.

For leaders with a vision for the future of the sector, this course is for you.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

You will leave this course with the tools and techniques to implement innovation in the workplace. You will explore innovation and its benefits, and what innovation means for public sector organisations and your work.

In this one day workshop, you will learn the techniques for inspiring innovative and creative thinking and the opportunity to practice these tools and techniques to implement innovation in your department or agency.

You will have the opportunity to explore their own experiences and those of your fellow learners, identify strengths and areas for improvement and share knowledge, skills, ideas and concerns.

You will participate in a number of activities including small group discussions and work through case studies based on real-life public-sector examples, applying frameworks and models introduced throughout the day.

You will finish this course knowing:

• what is Innovation and its Benefits?
• the Various Types of Innovation.
• what does innovation mean for public sector organisations and those they serve?
• the OECD’s integrated framework for analysing public sector innovation.
• aligning Innovation Direction to Department's Strategies.
• assessment: what are you doing currently?
• analysis: who is doing it well?
• leading and supporting innovation in the public sector.
• innovation and your team: leader’s role in innovation.
• developing cultural conditions to facilitate innovation initiatives.
• techniques for Inspiring Innovative and Creative Thinking; Double Diamond, the Ingenuity.
• different innovative thinking techniques and evaluate their benefits and limitations.
• the Ingenuity Process and the Double Diamond Process.
• putting Theory into Practice: Develop and practice the key tools and techniques to implement innovation in the workplace.
• establishing success indicators of your innovation plans.
• assessing the merit of innovative ideas.
• define measures and milestones.
• executing innovation plans successfully.

NSW Public Sector Commission Capability Framework

Benefits of an in-house course are:

• Collaboration and team building.
• Cost effective employee development.
• Improving staff performance and consistency.
• Customisable for an additional fee. E.g. use of department policies or templates

Be at your best, for NSW.

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