Management Challenge

What is the Challenge?

The LGMA Management Challenge is a sophisticated developmental program that produces outcomes that have relevant, tangible and enduring benefits for your people, your teams and your organisation.

It's also good fun, great value and highly effective training. Your Council could join the many Australian and New Zealand Councils that have made it part of their HR Development Program.

Teams of five or six members, with the aid of an in-house mentor and a detailed Mentor's kit, spend a few hours in the weeks preceding the Challenge to develop team skills, get to know each other's strengths and plan their strategies. The professional development has already begun and they will be engaging real issues in their own organisation.

The first part of the challenge will involve a task to be performed within your council prior to the regional finals. Each year we will look at a topical issue for Local Government and teams will be required to undertake some research and look at strategies for addressing those challenges.

The Challenge Day is held in each capital city and some regional centres. Teams come together in March to apply their skills to tasks that typify management in the local government environment. The tasks are crafted to develop individual and team competencies in predetermined management areas.

Detailed and targeted reports from professional facilitators provide the basis for workplace debriefing and application of learning outcomes to the workplace. The teams receive a personal debrief from the facilitator.

The best performed team in each State and New Zealand will contest the Australasian final.

The LGMA Management Challenge is designed to deliver personal, team and organisational development. It is based on relevant material suggested by practitioners, effective management practices and translation of outcomes into the workplace.

More than any seminar or traditional training program, The Challenge provides effective staff development through participative learning. And the investment required for this quality training program, translates into extraordinarily good value.

Who Should Enter?

Every Council in Australia and New Zealand should have at least one team in the Challenge. Even very small Councils can participate by forming a composite team with a neighbouring authority. The Challenge is designed to provide relevant learning for all participants, and it does!

Ask for a participant's evaluation summary, or better still the name of a Council nearby that has taken part.

And don't be concerned about competitiveness, as this would overlook the essential purpose of the Challenge. It is a competitive event, but that is just a design construct. The Challenge is designed to ensure your team members will develop new/improved skills in effective team processes, issue resolution and situational leadership. Teams are also assisted by the provision of sample tasks from past Challenge events.

So make up a team with people from any discipline or hierarchy. Everyone in every team comes away with new and practical insights into excellence in leadership and management.

Entries

Entries for the 2011 Management Challenge will open in November 2010. Further information will be provided on this web site in due course.