Boards and governance

As part of a Board’s responsibility in setting strategic direction for the organisation, whether they are profit, not for profit or public sector organisations, the Board has to be strongly committed to the vision & mission of the organisation & ensure it is linked to the outcomes.

Q. How can Curtin Executive Education help my Board?

Innovative leaders with lasting impact

For the Executive level, the program draws on Curtin’s extensive research & practice in the areas of  leadership, management, decision making, creativity and innovation.

Q. What does the Executive Team leave with?

While based on sound theory, each evidence based session revolves around a practical take away tip, tool or technique. The focus is on high performing teams.

Q. How can Curtin Executive Education help my Executive Team?

Executives are faced by increased complexity and unique situations, where applying known patterns fail to consistently deliver positive outcomes.

In partnership with you, Curtin can do the following:

• Executive Team evaluation & development
• Design & facilitation of business simulation events
• Organisational culture & effectiveness studies
• Top management & team coaching and support
• Individual & Team profiling (LSI/MBTI/DISC/HBDI/CTT/Belbin Team Roles)
• High end facilitation services such as, Engagement; Mediation; Negotiation; Strategic & Operational Planning

Tomorrow's leaders

Emerging leaders are brought to the table to share their views & experiences, enabling collaborative creation of answers and challenges. Programs are created to address specific business challenges faced by this level of people.

Q. What do my Managers achieve by attending the program?

Managers obtain an integrated end-to-end learning experience as these programs are created to specifically address specific business challenges.

For Managers who are interested in further learning, programs can be designed to articulate to Curtin University degree courses. This includes Curtin’s internationally acclaimed MBA and a range of Masters or Graduate Certificate courses. Depending on the cohort and program design, a select range of our ‘for award’ courses can also be tailored to provide participants the opportunity to graduate with a recognised tertiary qualification.

Q. How can Curtin Executive Education help my Managers?

Managers need to deliver based on their objectives. We provide programs that focus on creating value, ensuring execution of the strategy and aligning the organisation and team members.

In partnership with you, Curtin can do the following:

• Mangers evaluation & development
• Design & facilitation of business simulation events
• Organisational culture & effectiveness studies
• Team coaching and support
• Individual & Team profiling (LSI/MBTI/DISC/HBDI/CTT/Belbin Team Roles)
• High end facilitation services such as, Engagement; Mediation; Negotiation; Strategic & Operational Planning

Build organisational capability

Curtin provides expertise across the full Organisational Development spectrum, from diagnosis to development.

Q. I am interested in using psychometric instruments. What does Curtin offer?

Our team are accredited across a wide range of psychometric instruments, profiles & organisational diagnostic tools & can assist with tailoring appropriate approaches using:

• Human Synergistics Lifestyle Inventory
  The LSI helps individuals to strengthen thinking and behavioral styles that promote their effectiveness and moderate styles that prevent them from realizing their potential. The LSI provides invaluable and otherwise unavailable information that can motivate, guide and track the progress of self-development initiatives.
  http://www.humansynergistics.com/products/lsi.aspx
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®)
  In organizations and workplaces the Indicator is particularly useful with teams, for conflict management and performance improvement, for employee coaching,for management development, or for executive coaching.
  http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/
• DiSC®
  Measure your levels of Dominance, Influence, Conscientiousness and Steadiness Better understand your motivations, your work habits and your personality type Learn more about your strengths and weaknesses
  http://www.thediscpersonalitytest.com/?view=Assessments_disc
• Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument® (HBDI®)
  Herrmann’s Whole Brain Thinking® methodology is the set of proven practices for cultivating the ability for individuals to act outside of their own preferred thinking styles. It can help your organization to build effective teams, create an innovative business strategy to solve a revenue problem, anage mergers and acquisitions, initiate organizational culture change, develop a customer service strategy and many more.
  http://www.hbdi.com/WholeBrainProductsAndServices/getstarted.cfm
• CTT
  To enable professionals to facilitate stimulating, memorable presentations, meeting and learning processes through a choice of highly tailored in-house small group workshops or on the job consultation/coaching.
  http://www.creativetraining.com.au/
• Belbin Team Roles
• Competing Values Framework

Industry based consultancy

This program is for organisations who want to explore concepts, identify trends & address big issues that impact on your operations.

Our work in this area encompasses:

• Country & Industry level economic analysis
• Multi-billion dollar resource allocation decision advice & support
• Board & Executive Team evaluation & development
• Design & facilitation of team business simulation events
• Organisational culture & effectiveness studies
• Top management team coaching
• Individual & team profiling
• High end facilitation services
• Innovation challenge service