Towards Strategic Leadership (Express)

TSL Express, a new and condensed version of our popular, long-running Towards Strategic Leadership program, helps senior public servants hone their strategic capabilities.

Public sector leaders are facing exceptional challenges in the demanding and complex contemporary policy and political environments. They’re expected to maintain a clear-eyed long-term perspective while dealing with the daily pressures of their roles.

Designed to fit into the busy lives of senior public sector professionals and delivered in a compact, blended format, this leadership development course will give you the tools to perform your roles with purpose, good judgment, and strategic nous, while thriving personally. It asks you to examine and question your assumptions about yourself, your leadership style, your role, your organisation and the broader context of government and the public sector.

You’ll learn to identify the strategically important tasks among the noise of your day-to-day work and take meaningful action. You’ll leave with a tangible boost in confidence and capabilities, feeling prepared to face senior executive responsibilities.

This leadership development program is designed for you if you are:

• a senior public sector professional
• moving (or planning to move) from tactical to strategic leadership roles.

TSL Express is a public sector leadership course that aims to give you a renewed strategic outlook, political astuteness, personal resilience, and the capacity to reflect, collaborate, lead and learn continuously.

During the TSL Express program, you will:

• explore public sector leadership themes including, technical vs adaptive challenges, authority vs leadership, role-taking, managing up, down and out, and facilitating collaborative work;
• examine your personal leadership style;
• practise reflective and strategic thinking;
• develop tools to identify strategically urgent priorities;
• explore the factors influencing public institutions’ capacity to adapt;
• develop a network of high performing leaders and stay connected via our Alumni Program.

You’ll learn from program co-directors:

• Paul ‘t Hart – 35 years’ experience in researching, consulting and training on crisis management and public sector leadership.
• Robbie Macpherson – training and coaching public sector executives in Australia for more than two decades.

The TSL Express program is delivered in a blended format across three modules:

• Module 1: Three days, face-to-face residential

• Module 2: One day, online

• Module 3: One day, online

TSL Express is run under the Chatham House Rule to create an environment of trust where complex problems can be resolved. The spirit of Chatham House Rule: share the information you receive, but do not reveal the identity of who said it.

This leadership course harnesses the knowledge and experience of all participants who, as professional peers, share a common language and a commitment to public service. Participants are co-contributors and integral to its success.

Orientation: 22 August 2024, Online via Zoom

Module 1: 2 September 2024, Online via Zoom

Module 2: 15-19 September 2024, face-to-face in Sydney

Module 3: 3 October 2024, Online via Zoom

Apply now for the 2024 program.

$20,000 AUD (excl GST)

Please note:

• Students are responsible for their own travel, some meals, and accommodation to and from the residential.
• If a student has been nominated by a sponsoring agency or government, that sponsor must cover program costs, including tuition fees and program materials.
• Participants may enter into a salary sacrifice arrangement with their employer to attend the program. The participant’s employer will be billed the program fee. This will be discussed on a case-by-case basis with the applicant’s sponsoring agency.

An Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander or Māori public servant will receive a fully-funded place in one of ANZSOG’s 2024 foundation programs through the 2024 ANZSOG First Nations Public Administration Scholarship. Find out more here.

Julie Etchells – TSL 2020 alum, Senior Executive Leader, Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs

Want an insider’s perspective?

Hear from one of our TSL alums. To arrange an introduction, email our Alumni Coordinator at alumni@anzsog.edu.au.