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Performance & Governance
Build a healthy enterprise performance and governance culture, deliver outcomes and improve transparency and trust.
Shape Your Agency's Future
Strong performance and governance practices drive value for organisations. It helps secure outcomes and improve transparency and trust. This is especially important for public sector agencies that are subject to intense public and political scrutiny, often have multiple stakeholders, and are under increasing pressure to meet growing citizen expectations.
Our experience has shown that robust enterprise performance practices are the cornerstone to delivering outcomes for the Commonwealth. A robust approach means you deliver better outcomes for government, clearly articulate the unique value of your agency and drive the right behaviours. We support agencies to design and implement enterprise performance and governance practices to build a healthy performance culture.
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Building a Healthy Performance Culture
How leaders can build a healthy performance culture to deliver greater agency impact. Four things you will discover by joining the webinar:
Performance Frameworks How to build a mature enterprise performance framework so that your agency is ready for ongoing ANAO performance statement audits
Transparent Culture How to foster an open and transparent culture so risks and resources are effectively allocated and managed
Corporate Plan How to ensure your agency’s corporate plan becomes the nexus of your performance culture
Reporting Impact How to use both data and evaluation activity to help monitor, review and report your agency’s impact to external stakeholders
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The Inner Child in the Boardroom: Unmasking the Subconscious Drivers of Decision-Making
Remember when as kids, we made choices based on what would make us look cool, avoid embarrassment, or simply because it felt good? Now, fast-forward to the adult world - the corporate decisions, strategic moves. Surprisingly (or not), the same underlying emotions and desires are at play.
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The Art of over-communication
"Over-communicate. It's better to tell someone something they already know than to not tell them something they needed to hear" - Alex Irvine
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The privacy reforms' 'fair-and-reasonable' principle - What's that got to do with FOIs?
Fair-and-reasonable (FAR). That's the standard, the test for organisations handling personal information (PI) under the proposed privacy reforms. The FAR principle is also found in the 'Objects' section of the FOI Act at Section 3(4), outlining that FOI functions "are to be performed and exercised, as far as possible, to facilitate and promote public access to information, promptly and at the lowest reasonable cost."
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eBook: Lessons from Cato and the failure of imagination
Australia's strategic policy has suffered from a crisis of identity for decades. We are not alone in changing political priorities, mismanaged projects or having to adjust to evolving strategic circumstances. But we want to have it both ways, all the time, and without due care to how long it takes or how much it costs.
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Defence Industry and net assessment: How much is enough?
In a 1979 interview with Ray Bradbury, the acclaimed science-fiction author lamented that he was often asked to play the role of futurist: "People ask me to predict the future when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better."
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The Untapped Genius of Artemis: Why Your Organisation Needs to Think Wildly
If you forgive the travel into Greek mythology for a moment, I'd like you to meet Apollo and Artemis. Two symbols that stand as a profound contradiction. Apollo, the god of reason, logic, and order, contrasts sharply with his twin sister Artemis, the goddess of the wild, creativity, and intuition. A distinction I remember well through my studies of art history, just as much as in the shaping of contemporary culture.
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