Examine how leaders of public organisations communicate to best effect: internally, across government, and beyond. This requires an ability to listen and communicate with the clarity necessary to catch attention amid a jumble of competing messages around government. These sessions will leave you with a fresh understanding of the role of storytelling as a fundamental part of leadership.

You will explore the complex political, regulatory, and technological challenges leaders face, using a case study on the development of 5G technology. Also examine questions of cybersecurity, including threats newly enhanced by artificial intelligence. You will have the opportunity to dive deeper into a specific topic that is most relevant to you and your organisation.

Explore framing bias, confirmation bias, overconfidence bias, and sunk-cost bias, as well as examples of groupthink. You will consider the consequences for decision-making, and test some simple techniques to overcome these biases in individual and group decisions.

Understand the trends and cycles in organisational reform and what evidence there is to support strategies of radical reform or incremental improvement. You will look at the tools that different administrations use to improve performance, including target-setting, data generation and outsourcing.

Refresh and extend your familiarity with core concepts and expand your knowledge of more advanced negotiation tactics. Through interactive simulations, you will learn and practise specific analytical tools for conducting multi-stakeholder deliberations across international boundaries, with powerful commercial interests and multiple governments.

Build a moral language for understanding ethical challenges and have greater confidence in handling the pressures that public leaders inevitably face. Examine how difficult it can be to recognise integrity, understand the factors that cloud our ethical decisions, and appreciate the long-term damage to one’s leadership that can flow from a single misjudgement.