Do you work in local government and are looking to advance your leadership skills?
In the ever-changing landscape of local government, leadership that empowers individuals and teams is crucial for fostering innovation, collaboration, and community growth. This leadership course aims to build your capacity and capability to be a purposeful, inclusive leader who can lead for impact. This leadership course is grounded in local government context with experiential learning challenges. This course focuses relational leadership and how to lead with influence, empathy, the importance of communication, innovative ways of thinking, being and doing and self-reflection through the lens of management theories and structures.
The course teachings are based on evidence and rigour, drawing on cutting edge theory and practice relating to leadership development. The program encourages self-reflection in relation to your leadership development with the workshop closing with a self-reflection ‘check-out’ exercise.
Course information
| Duration | One session (8 hours in total) |
| Dates | Thu 28 May 2026 |
| Venue | UTS City Campus |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Cost | $798 (GST free) |
Course content
This leadership course will cover the following topics:
- Emotional Intelligence – empowering yourself to empower others
- Empowering teams
- Realising your collective leadership impact within council
- The future ‘us’
- Action and reflection
Learning outcomes
As a result of this leadership course, you will:
- Learn a suite of strategies to empower others to achieve
- Be able to actively contribute to the development of collective and
- Collaborative leadership within council
- Understand and grow their leadership impact
Delivery style
The leadership course uses a blend of presentation, discussion, case in point teaching, consultation in pairs, group exercises, individual take-away tasks to put into practice learnings in the workplace. This training approach allows you to work through concepts introduced by the presenter in an application-focused teaching environment. You will challenge your understanding of the concepts and consider their application once back in your individual workplace.
Our face-to-face courses are delivered on UTS City Campus. Location details and teaching materials will be made available to participants prior to the course.
Course prerequisites
This leadership course has no prerequisites and is open to all members of the public. The course is one of five leadership courses in our Leading in Local Government series.
About the presenter
Tish Creenaune is an Associate Director at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance. Tish is a highly regarded and experienced public sector executive with over 30 years working in the education and training, innovation, communities and social policy fields as a policy planner and strategic project manager leading change projects and reform. She has worked closely with senior officers in government agencies and Government Ministers in leading the implementation of policy and delivered on social, innovation, community and educational outcomes through influencing a diverse range of stakeholders.
Tish was the founding Director of the Catalyst Lab Innovation Program, the first NSW education innovation lab leading the exploration, design and scaling of innovative education ideas and incubator for innovation in education, providing a structured process to trial and prototype new ideas. She is a skilled facilitator in leadership growth and development, design thinking and innovation: developing and customising innovation processes and methodologies to solve for complex problems.
Are you interested in this course?
In-house training solutions
This leadership course for Local Government can also be tailored for in-house delivery, designed to meet your organisation’s objectives and delivered either on campus, online, or at a location of your choice. This flexible model ensures the content is customised to your team’s needs while minimising disruption to day-to-day operations.
Contact us
Need more information? For all course related enquiries, including future dates or in-house training enquiries, email us at ippg.learning@uts.edu.au or call +61 2 9514 7884.
This short course is presented by the university’s Institute for Public Policy and Governance. Learn more about the Institute’s advisory and research services and professional learning and development programs.
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