This two-day course provides you with the understanding and change leadership toolkit to help you start using data and analytics to drive a step change in performance.
What will you gain?
By the end of the course you will:
- understand what you are buying by having a sound foundation of the kinds of value that data sharing, AI and Analytics can drive, applied across a range of government, community, NGO and private domains;
- be able to diagnose the common sources of resistance and barriers to change;
- have strategies to successfully frame and build buy-in when selling insights work into your organisation; and
- understand your own leadership style and have an expanded leadership toolkit that is relevant to insights work.
Course structure
This two-day course approaches insights capability through the lens of change leadership, using a variety of methods to help participants learn.
No technical expertise in data sharing or analytics is required, as the course builds a solid foundation in understanding of the value, risks, change resistance and leadership methods required to use insights capability more successfully in your organisation.
Topics covered include:
- The value proposition: Real world examples of the kinds of value that you can drive using insights technology. Includes group work to identify opportunities to lever the power of these capabilities for your career or organisation.
- Context: Use of Data sharing and AI in government vs Non-government settings.
- The challenge: Why most investment in insights work fails. This may include case in point analysis and shared class experiences as well as a diagnostic tool for identifying sources of resistance.
- Understanding your change leadership style, using an in-class survey and discussion.
- Understanding deep resistance to change, as part of class exercise.
- Use of an Insights Maturity Model to frame and successfully navigate organisational change
- Methods for leading change when applied to insights work. Includes a comparison of usually unsuccessful approaches with approaches that have been shown to be more successful.
- Staying alive and organising for success.
It is suitable for governors, managers, data and analytics practitioners and others who wish to explore the potential or be more successful using these new insights technologies to drive value.
