Australian Futures Project

PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS PROGRAM

A specialised program for Parliamentarians

2017 AS LEADERS TODAY, POLITICIANS FACE A MORE COMPLEX, PRESSURED AND DIFFICULT JOB THAN EVER BEFORE

The Parliamentary Leaders Program is high- This exclusive program for Parliamentarians impact, time-optimised and efective for for all parties will strengthen and grow your leaders like you. The program was designed capability to respond to the challenges of with input from Parliamentarians. the 21st Century.

WHY PARTICIPATE?

Grow your Deliver greater Expand your Create lasting influence in results for contribution impact as a Parliament your staf, to your Parliamentarian supporters and constituency voters

Our session leaders provide a THE stimulating and intellectually EXPERIENCE challenging experience using: • Small group discussions about • Case studies where you can learn leadership, common challenges from past experience and work and governing in the 21st Century with colleagues on issues that • Scenario building where you matter to you experience life as a politician in a • Guest speakers to expose you future you ‘create’ to new ways of thinking about • Workshops with specialists leadership and governing in to learn how to use practical complex environments decision-making tools • Reflection to foster insight

“Having seen the beneficial outcomes of this program “The is proud to support a in its first three years, the Liberal Party is eager to see it non-partisan initiative such as this, which builds continue to grow and serve our parliamentary leaders. on democratic traditions of public leadership and There is clearly significant benefit to participants.” contribution, while also equipping participants with the necessary skills for Parliament in the 21st century.” - President of the Liberal Party of Australia, The Hon Nick Greiner AC - President of the Australian Labor Party, The Hon Mark Butler MP

australianfutures.org PROGRAM Welcome Dinner - The Context • Governing in the 21st Century INFORMATION Day 1 - The Leader Day 2 - The Change Agent • Explore models of leadership • Learn, use models and tools for and influence to discover your changing and influencing the system motivations, strengths and pathways within which you work/lead to grow as a leader • Explore ways to collaborate for • Determine your leadership signature influence and impact in a complex and how you can powerfully adaptive system influence others • Determine your role as a change • Manage your challenges, decisions agent in the system and ethical dilemmas • Reflect on making it real for you • Analyse the role of leadership in • Plan how to harness your insights delivering policy outcomes and embed change • Create policy from a strong foundation and understanding of values • Use these approaches to leadership and influence to determine the implications for you

MAIN THEMES

Transform your capabilities in two extraordinary days. The program will build your understanding, connections and capabilities in three main themes:

THE THE THE CHANGE 1 CONTEXT 2 LEADER 3 AGENT What forces are shaping the What are my aspirations, How can I be efective in multiple 21st century? What are the motivations, patterns of roles over my career? How can implications of complexity and behaviour, blind spots and I build my capacity in ‘the art of the rapid rate of change for unconscious biases? How do I governing’? governing Australia? difer from others? What can I learn from the What are the societal roles, Why is it useful to have a range passage of previous contentious goals and constraints of of approaches (analytical, policy and legislation? How Australian society, including cognitive and emotional) to do I access, filter, analyse and governments, the public leadership, communication, evaluate information from a service, business and decision-making and problem- range of sources in my time- community sector? solving? How do I know when constrained world? to deploy them? What does this mean for me as What is the role of innovation, a parliamentarian? What will it What are the practical tools risk, continual learning and be like to govern over the next to manage ethical dilemmas, adaptive leadership? How do I decade? What capabilities will personal integrity and ensuring build my own capabilities and I need as a senior politician to that policy leads from a encourage and enable them in be efective? What could I do to foundation of understanding others? facilitate these changes? values? What is the role of collaboration, What are the intellectual and How can I manage my engaging people with diferent strategic foundations for the reputation, as well as my points of view, stakeholder next period of major reform in health and personal and family management and negotiations? Australia? relationships? How can I master all of them?

australianfutures.org SESSION FACILITATORS

RALPH ASHTON JULIE BIRTLES MEREDITH EDWARDS Founded The Australian Futures Founder of Beyond Excellence - Emeritus Professor at the Institute Project to build Australia’s Pioneering innovative approaches for Governance and Policy capacity for a flourishing shared to executive development. Analysis at the University of future. Ralph began his career Julie builds leadership capacity . Meredith was Deputy as a corporate lawyer and required to shape the future Vice Chancellor, University of investment banker. Since then success of organisations and Canberra (1997-2002) and Deputy Ralph has worked with, advised nations. Julie works with leaders Secretary, Department of Prime and consulted to governments, globally and local companies and Minister and Cabinet (1993-1996). the United Nations, the World governments. Meredith’s specific interests are Bank, business, academia and the social and education policy as well for-purpose sector. as the public policy process and current governance issues.

“The leadership program is essentially about power “I found that I had the confidence to commit to policy - not the power to the position we hold, but of us as direction and pursue it rather than accepting advice people to bring about change. I wish a course like this from more experienced team members ‘that it could had been available when I was elected to parliament. not be done’. Without the catalyst of this course, I’m I am a more powerful and efective representative not sure that would have been possible at this stage because of it.” of my early political experience.”

- Julie Owens, Member for Parramatta - Ann Sudmalis, Member for Gilmore

The total cost of the program is $5,000 (plus GST). An opportunity exists for 10 REGISTRATION Parliamentarians to receive a Patrons’ Fellowship for each program, which covers $4,500 of the cost for the two day program, the Welcome Dinner and a 12-month membership of the Fellows' Program. The Patrons’ Fellowships are awarded on a first- come, first-served basis.

For more information, or to register and apply for a Patrons’ Fellowship, contact: Chloë Spackman: [email protected] | +61 421 514 366

BEHIND THE PROGRAM: HONORARY PATRONS: THE AUSTRALIAN FUTURES PROJECT • President of the Australian Labor Party, A non-partisan, not-for-profit organisation, the The Hon Mark Butler MP Australian Futures Project works to improve how • President of the Liberal Party of Australia, Australia creates its future by: The Hon Nick Greiner AC • Improving understanding of key challenges and opportunities facing Australia The Honorary Patrons are contributing in a • Increasing quality of discussion and action personal capacity. towards Australians’ desired future

The Australian Futures Project has a track record of identifying, developing and running initiatives with high impact, including 21st Century Service - a course for Public Servants on solving complex challenges, My This innovative and challenging program draws on international best practice from the Harvard Kennedy School Big Idea - a national conversation engaging 15 million in the USA, the Institute for Government in the UK and Australians on the future of the country, and two state- corporate leadership programs. To create an open learning wide programs on the future of agriculture. environment, the program is held under Chatham House Rule and participants are split into party groups for For more information, visit australianfutures.org some sessions.