Fit For Purpose: Creating New Organisations

Overview

In every national, regional or international administration, new organisations are created to meet new challenges. Often these new bodies have a high political profile, an urgent mission to undertake and significant public pressure to fulfil their mandate. There is seldom sufficient time or resources to build the internal mechanisms that every organisation needs to run effectively. This programme will, through case studies, visits and syndicate exercises, explore these issues and progressively build up a toolkit to help create new, effective and accountable organisations. These tools and guidelines can be used in government, not-for-profit agencies and the private sector to support better resource utilisation, service delivery and evidence-based decision-making in the early stage of any organisation’s life

Learning objectives

You will be able to:

· Draft policies and procedures to establish the organisation
· Organise cost effective and sustainable systems
· Conduct user and stakeholder surveys
· Identify the major risks to the organisation’s success and develop effective counter measures
· Create policies and guidance to implement systematic improvements
· Propose and seek acceptance of appropriate performance indicators
· Measure and monitor performance over a range of indicators
· Develop further tools and processes to supports the organisation as it evolves and grows

Course content

· The essentials of building and managing a human resources programme
· The key elements of accountable and robust financial systems
· Techniques for establishing effective information and records management
· Systematic processes for identifying and communicating with stakeholders, customers and clients
· The foundations of a performance-based culture focused on delivery
· Setting strategic priorities for the organisation
· Writing practical policies, procedures and guidelines
· Identifying, assessing and developing core competencies among staff
· How to engage successfully with consultants and other external advisors