Course overview
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 organisation’s financial management. You will understand:
- The role of finance in implementing projects.
- How an organisation’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 organisation.
- The complexities of the relationship between paid civil servants 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 organisational change objectives.
The course will wrap with a summary of the key learning points, followed by an action planning exercise with a view to applying 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.
What you'll learn
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 organisation’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.
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
Duration study load
- 3 weeks
Course features
- Management consultation service
- Paperless service delivery model
- Flexible open course schedule
Who's it for?
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.
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About London Business Training & Consulting
London Business Training & Consulting (LBTC) is a business and management training and consultancy service provider operating out of its head office in Hammersmith, West London. For over fifteen (15) years LBTC has catered for the learning & development needs of innumerable individuals and organisations of all sizes from all over the world.
Our customised approach to every management solution we deliver has afforded our clientele world-class business performance. As a result, LBTC benefits from regular re-engagement by our clients year after year, or every time they encounter a business challenge that is seemingly insurmountable.
