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KnowHow Training Courses

A number of courses are scheduled to be developed during 2009/2010. These courses are listed below with a brief description. Details will be added to the website as the courses are developed and scheduled.

 

Financial Governance 201: Advanced modules

Further modules will be developed for 2011 on specific topics such as debt, investment, depreciation and managing council community trading organisations (CCTOs).

 

Decision-making: Reducing challenges in challenging decisions/ effective decisions under the Local Government Act 2002 (LGA)
  • LGA 2002: decision-making criteria and OAG report on decision-making
  • considering options
  • stakeholders. Who will be impacted? Who might contribute to ideas, solutions, actions?
  • short/long-term implications - impact and cost
  • sustainability/four aspects of well-being
  • reaching your community - case study: Connecting with Communities
  • getting meaningful feedback
  • achieving effective engagement with different groups.

Decision-making: Effective meeting and communication skills

  • making your point / your voice heard, building support and relating to others' views
  • team building & dynamics
  • working with different leadership and team styles, conflict management
  • measuring and improving your performance
  • contributing to national committees and working groups
  • meetings, public speaking, asking effective questions
  • media skills: effective communication, media coverage, interviews and campaigning.

Governance: Leading local government

  • roles and responsibilities of elected members
  • leadership
  • ethics, conduct and conflicts of interest
  • understanding politics and democracy.

Governance: Strategic planning - getting where you want to be (Ready, Aim, Action)

  • LTCCPs: Community planning case study: Good Practice: Evaluating a LTCCP - half day
  • community outcomes
  • scenarios and strategies
  • interagency plans and relationships, involving the community in getting there
  • monitoring.

Governance: Working with Māori

  • the benefits of building good relationships
  • council's statutory responsibilities
  • the local context for Council-Māori engagement
  • practical mechanisms for engagement
  • specialist topics (Resource Management Act, representation)
  • course can be tailored to requirements.

Governance: Sustainable planning

  • urban and rural planning - population growth/decline and demographic change
  • climate change
  • considering tensions between well-being areas
  • asset repair/replacement/capacity - what is coming up, risks/assumptions, what is missing from plan and why
  • funding, depreciation, intergenerational equity.