Course description
Public Sector Finance and Strategic Management Excellence
By attending this course, non-finance staff who need to extend their understanding of finance will learn how this could make a difference to their organization’s financial management. You will understand:
- The role of finance in implementing projects.
- How an organization’s stakeholders affect its financial performance and growth.
- The activities in determining pricing objectives, policies and strategies.
You will also be able to successfully lead public services to achieve service excellence and community objectives. You will explore:
- The specific role that is required of strategic manager in a public sector organization.
- The complexities of the relationship between paid civil servant and elected politicians in the context of public service planning and delivery.
- How each public service contributes to the economy.
- The approach to the medium/long term funding of the authority to ensure financial resilience year-on-year.
- The approach to the medium/long term planning to ensure the authority meets all of the expectations of its stakeholders.
- An overview of programme and change management for those senior officers who will be looking to employ and manage specific skilled staff and/or consultants to help achieve their organizational change objectives.
The course will wrap with a summary of the key learning points, followed by an action planning exercise with a view to apply the acquired knowledge and skills immediately upon your return to work. Post-course support is also available in relation to the implementation of your action plan, up to six (6) months following course completion.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Target Audience
This course is suitable for Directors and Deputy Directors, and all other public sector senior officers who:
- Work directly to lead politicians and with other public services to achieve broader community outcomes (public health and well-being and economic development).
- Are responsible for achieving the authority’s strategic objectives and can commit the resources to achieve them.
- Need to extend their understanding of finance to more specific operational activities.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Analyse the role of finance in project delivery.
- Appreciate the role of stakeholders and their impact on an organization’s financial performance.
- Understand the processes involved in deciding prices.
- Focus on ensuring that the authority and its services are fit for purpose in the current, medium and long term.
- Keep a strategic overview of service delivery.
- Understand when and how to ‘intervene’ in the authority’s operations.
- ‘Step-up’ to lead the whole service.
- Define service outcomes.
- Understand the responsibilities of the service ‘end-to-end’ manager.
- Implement an Action Plan at your workplace using the knowledge and skills acquired through the course.
Training Course Content
- Investment and Financial Management of Long-term Projects
- Financial Management Stakeholder Expectations
- Pricing Decisions
- Financial Management Decision-Making
- Public Sector Strategic Management
- Politics and the Public Sector
- Aligning the Public Sector to Support the Economy
- Strategic Risk Management
- Public Sector Finance Strategy
- Public Sector Strategic Planning
- Public Sector Leading Strategic Change
- Crises Management
- Action Planning
Why choose London Business Training & Consulting
Management consultation service
Paperless service delivery model
Flexible open course schedule
Expenses
Course Price: £8225.00 + VAT
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