Professional workshops
Staff within the Flinders Institute of Public Policy and Management can provide customised professional-development workshops on a range of issues pertaining to public policy and public-sector management.
In recent years, FIPPM staff have delivered a variety of workshops through the Institute of Public Administration Australia, the SA Department of the Premier and Cabinet, the SA Department of Families and Communities, the SA Department of Education and Children’s Services, and Arts SA. These workshops have focused on:
- the machinery of government
- the public policy process
- whole-of-government and cross-agency policy and management
- needs analysis and evaluation
- Commonwealth-State relations
- contemporary issues for the public sector
- inter-agency coordination and collaboration
More broadly, FIPPM staff have particular expertise and consulting capacity in the following areas:
- Leadership and decision-making in public sector organisations
- Strategic management, managing the processes of transformation and change, and systemic approaches to organisational change management and capacity building
- Evolving structures and styles of government and governance including issues of collaboration and integration within the public sector and across the public/private/non-government divides
- Future developments in public administration, policy and management in the Asia Pacific region
- Theoretical and value issues in public policy; the implications of public choice
- Cultural dimensions of public policy and management
- Policy analysis in a variety of areas - social, urban, housing, education, health, environment, rural and regional
- Best practice, performance and accountability, audit and evaluation, impact assessment, and outcome measurement
- Management of non-government organisations and their relationships with government