Dr. Robert Taylor

IPAC

Introduction to the course

LEADING CHANGE EFFECTIVELY IN

GOVERNMENT

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IPAC Public Sector Survey (2011)

Areas of training and professional development

Introductions

Introduce Yourself, Where you are from, Your role and

what you hope to achieve from this course

Introduction to the Course

Who are we – IPAC in brief

A pracademic approach

The course goals and objectives

Course overview

Presenters

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Created in 1947

Association of public servants

• Pan Canadian membership

• All orders - Federal, provincial, territorial, First Nations, and municipal; academics

Today - 3,100 individual members

Non-partisan, bilingual, independent of government

18 Regional Groups across Canada

About IPAC

“Serving you to serve better”

Enhance the development of good public administration and management practices and policies

Research and Publications

Training Programs & Consultancies

Awards of Excellence Networking Opportunities

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What IPAC Does

Knowledge Broker

IPAC’s strength is its capacity to create and broker the diffusion of knowledge about public administration and governance.

Network

IPAC can connect the right experts with its partners.

Flexible Efficient Cost-effective

A Pracademic Approach

At IPAC we believe that complex issues in government are best tackled using a blend of academic and practitioner knowledge.

We organize our teaching along lines of rigorous and cutting edge academic knowledge, blended with and enhanced by long-standing expertise of practitioners in the field.

Our goals and objectives

This course is designed to provide you with the skill set to effectively and innovatively lead change in public sector organizations.

It was developed with the intention to allow you to leverage and utilize in full the strength, diversity, and experience of your team.

It is a comprehensive approach on how to use leadership in effective change management.

At the end of the course you will: 1. Understand the most recent theories and practices

in leadership with special focus on the public sector

2. Understand how to create innovation-fostering teams within your organization

3. Have learned the principles and practices surrounding the link between leadership and innovation

4. Be able to develop a leadership strategy for your organization

Course overview – Day 1 Time

8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 Introduction to the Course

9:15 – 10:30 Module 1 DGP Objectives and History

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:00 Module 2 Public Administration Skills in a Global Context

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 – 14:45 Module 3 The Case for Change

14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:30 Module 4 The Case for Change in Africa

Course overview – Day 2 Time

8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 – 10:30 Module 1 Innovation for the Public Sector of the 21st Century

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:00 Module 2 Leadership Skills in the Global Context

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 – 14:45 Module 3 Change Management

14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:30 Module 4 Leadership Examples in Africa

Course overview – Day 3 Time

8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 – 10:30 Module 1 Building Innovative Teams

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:00 Module 2 Open Government and Open Data

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 – 14:45 Module 3 Citizen Engagement and the Political-Bureaucratic Divide

14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:30 Module 4 Course Wrap Up

Presenters • Dr. Robert Taylor – CEO of IPAC, 30 year career in public

service at Federal, Provincial, municipal levels in Canada and

abroad, recently as ADM with province of Ontario

• Dr. Andrea Migone – Director of Research at IPAC, with a PhD

in Public Policy, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University

• Dr Josephine Mwanzia

• Dr. Najat Zarrouk

• Dr. Nura Mohamed