Overview

Developed for senior managers and heads of discipline, our two-day certificate course will provide leaders and senior practitioners insights, roadmaps, and tools to lift team performance to exceptional level.  

The course focuses on high performing teams in corporate public affairs functions globally, and best practice in team formation, composition, and modus operandi. The module will assist and support senior practitioners harness the power and utility of teams to solve problems, strengthen productivity, innovate, and dilute inertia.

Participants will bring back valuable learnings to assist fortify the performance and bench strength of their wider team.

Transformational leaders who have built from okay and good, to great teams will share real world case studies, years of hands-on experience, strategy, and tactics to build high-functioning, high-capability teams, operating at international best practice. And sustainably – which means for two, five, and 10 years forth.

The program will be delivered by the Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns, and Guest Faculty Andrew Hall - Chief Executive, Insurance Council of Australia, Bernadette Murdoch - Global Head of Reputation, CSL Limited, and Jonathan Rose - General Manager Communications – Australia, Rio Tinto.

 The agenda's focus:

1. Characteristics of teams and leadership styles. What problem does the organisation want to solve by developing and nurturing high performing teams? What does ‘high performing’ mean, and what does it look like?
2. Assessing and understanding the adaptive challenge of building a high performing team.
3. Capabilities and structure: Building and nurturing capability to deliver strategy. What to build. What to leave behind. The right people for the right jobs. What is the right structure?
4. Establishing baseline capabilities in a corporate public affairs team. Connecting organisational need and functional leadership with team capabilities and skills. The significance of style and nuance.
5. The role of culture in high performing teams. Insights to monitoring and managing performance. Setting the high-performance tone. Measurement and reporting required to assess and understand high performance.
6. Keep on keeping on - embedding high performance and keeping it going.

Corporate public affairs case study and significant peer syndicate group work are part of the curriculum.

This module comprises twenty credit points (20) of the 40 points required over 36 months for practitioners to achieve/maintain their certification as a Graduate of the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs (GCCPA).