LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA (LGAs) TEAMS

BOOK YOUR FREE 60-MINUTE STRATEGY SESSION

This free strategy session will help you uncover what your team needs most.
Your Benefit: practical next steps you can act on immediately.
No hard sell – pinky promise!

Amplify your leadership, positively impact your colleagues and importantly, impact your community today! Take the first step toward building a high-performing, cohesive LGA business partnering team.

Impact Your Local Community.

Enhancing the effectiveness of your LGA business partnering team and fostering meaningful collaboration with internal and community stakeholders begins with trust: trust within the team and with the broader community. It starts with consistently applying the core principles of business partnering.

Mastering these fundamentals enables council leaders and their teams to develop proactive and impactful relationships with key stakeholders, from internal departments to local community groups. Our Leadership Development Program for Local Government is designed to equip council teams with essential tools, frameworks, and the mindset to drive progress and deliver outcomes that truly benefit the community.

This program will improve cross-functional collaboration, enhance communication with internal and external stakeholders, and establish purposeful goal-setting that leads to genuine buy-in and aligned teams across Council moving in the same direction.

SOME COMPANIES WE’VE PARTNERED WITH

What makes this Leadership Development Program for Local Government unique?

We specialise in developing trusted business partners, and our approach is rooted in building solid foundations for success: Know yourself, know your organisation, and know your stakeholders. Create a positive impact.

Our program is tailored to your council and combines evidence-based frameworks, real-world insights, and meaningful interactions to help participants foster trust, collaboration, and positive change.

Above all, we focus on action, ensuring your leadership team is prepared to implement strategies that deliver tangible results for the council and the community and have a team with the right behavioural attributes.

The Business Partnering Playbook

Finally, a book that provides realistic and targeted advice to Business Partners!

Business Partners hold a vital role as trusted confidants with deep technical expertise, and their impact is evident across all business functions. Initially tasked with providing advice, they are now true collaborating partners, ideally placed to lead and manage change in the changing world of work and business. Yet as the Business Partner role has changed, there has been no pathway to develop the competencies essential for their success.

Until now. If you are a current or aspiring Business Partner – HR, Finance, Procurement, IT, Risk, Audit, Compliance, Legal, Marketing – this is the book for you.

EVOLVE shows you how to navigate service models and systems, build your commercial acumen and deliver value to your organisation.

CORE PROGRAM MODULES

KNOW YOUR ORGANISATION

How council leaders can effectively align with broader local government goals.

This module introduces a structured approach to understanding and supporting your council’s objectives and business model. It fosters a strategic mindset, helping leaders and teams identify how to support local government priorities best while considering the community’s diverse needs. Participants will gain tools to better understand how the council delivers value to the community and interconnected business model components that make it all possible.

KNOW YOUR STAKEHOLDERS

Trust is the foundation of
successful governance.

Building and nurturing relationships with internal teams, external stakeholders, and community groups is essential for local government effectiveness. This module emphasises developing trust, enhancing communication, and creating strong connections with all key stakeholders.

KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT

Understanding community needs strengthens decision-making.

Community priorities and external influences significantly impact local government decisions. This module develops an “outside-in” perspective, enabling leaders to consider societal, economic, and environmental factors. With this understanding, council teams can make informed decisions that align with their communities’ long-term needs.

LEADERSHIP TOOLKIT FOR COUNCILS

Enhancing stakeholder engagement with practical tools.

Participants will learn about the ACDC Contextual Partnering Model, which adapts to a local government context. This model helps leaders tailor their business partnering approach to maximise impact while building a solid reputation as reliable, strategic advisors.

LEARN DATA STORYTELLING

A critical skill for effective communication and advocacy.

Storytelling enhances leaders’ ability to present data and ideas in compelling ways. This module equips council teams to use storytelling to engage stakeholders, communicate a more cohesive story using data, and foster collaboration across departments and community groups.

KNOW THE VALUE YOU DELIVER

Measure and communicate your
team’s impact.

Measuring the outcomes of local government initiatives is vital to demonstrating value to stakeholders. This module introduces a high-impact framework for evaluating and articulating the value delivered by council leaders and their teams, ensuring efforts are recognised and aligned with community expectations.

THE CALL TO ACTION FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT (LGA) TEAMS!

Local government and council leaders operate in a dynamic environment marked by competing demands, budget constraints, and evolving community needs. This program helps leaders navigate these challenges by fostering collaboration, streamlining communication, and delivering results that impact all stakeholders.

Our Leadership Development Program for Local Government is tailored to help councils create high-performing teams, enhance strategic alignment, and elevate their impact on the community.

The learning outcomes for participants include:

Strengthening collaboration between council departments and community stakeholders.
Establishing trust and effective communication across diverse groups.
Developing a reputation as a strategic and reliable business partnering team..
Enhancing business acumen to complement leadership roles.

UNDERSTAND YOUR BUSINESS

How the HR Business Partners fits within and supports your company’s business model

We help you grow your ability strategically and develop a strong commercial mindset. This module is crucial for building a mature and effective HR function. It covers essential aspects of what are the core elements of a business model, helping you make informed decisions that support the overall business strategy. This module is tailored to your company and industry – no ‘off the shelf’ solution here!

UNDERSTAND YOUR STAKEHOLDERS

Without trust, your effectiveness as a HR and People & Culture business partner diminishes - regardless of how technically proficient you are

Building and nurturing trusted business relationships across all business functions is a foundational capability for all HR professionals – regardless of seniority. This module focuses on the role HR business partners play in building relationships with internal stakeholders and their People and Culture colleagues. We prioritise trust-building, building fit for purpose communication skills, and creating a strong presence in stakeholder relationships for maximum impact and team and individual success.

UNDERSTAND YOUR MACRO WORLD

Understanding the external influences that impact your business improves decision-making for HR and People & Culture professionals

Business decisions are influenced by internal and external factors across different industries, markets and geographies. This module focuses on building a strong “outside-in” view of the world, and how macro-environmental factors impact a company’s direction and the HR team’s decision-making. A solid understanding of the macro factors that can impact the organisation, is critical to effective decision making.

YOUR HR and PEOPLE & CULTURE BUSINESS PARTNERING TOOLKIT

Build high impact skills for greater effectiveness across core stakeholder groups

This module will introduce you to tools like the ACDC Contextual Partnering Model to help identify and understand the different delivery modes of a business partner depending on the work context. These tools provide participants a valuable insight into their personal preferences, and how they can broaden out their expertise by leveraging the different modes of business partnering in the right context. This module highlights how essential it is to build a strong internal brand for your HR function and the sustainable growth and relevance of any team.

DATA AS A STORYTELLING TOOL

A vital “life” skill for all HR and People & Culture Teams

Storytelling plays an increasing role in all work contexts and done well, helps transform the impact business partners have on their business. Refining this lost skill of storytelling can unleash a HR team’s ability to collaborate effectively and influence better outcomes for the overall business. This fosters a high-performance environment driven by action and tangible results, not just ideas.

KNOW & MEASURE THE VALUE YOU DELIVER

The core ingredient to driving team success

To know you’re having an impact, you need to know how to articulate and measure the value your team delivers as HR business partners. It’s knowing the trade-offs you make around what you do and what you don’t do as a team. This makes all the difference to stakeholders. This module shares some high impact frameworks for you to use in assessing the value HR and People and Culture Business Partners deliver individually and as a team.

Guidance really helped

I really connected with and appreciated the style and approach. The one-on-one guidance really helped.

Claire

Senior Manager

Helped me achieve

My goal was to maintain focus on my most important leadership priorities and this program has helped me achieve this.

Andrew

General Counsel

Program helped me in so many ways

My learnings from this program have helped me in so many ways both personally and professionally.

Deborah

HR Director

Insights were innovative and pragmatic

I appreciated the extensive experience from a wide range of sectors to draw upon. The insights shared were innovative and pragmatic

Raj

GM Human Resources

Truly enriching and transformational experience

The guidance I have received has been instrumental in helping me to workout my overall vision and strategies for my career and personal goals. This has been a truly enriching and transformational experience.

Katarina

Marketing Specialist

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST

At Impactology, we aim to empower council leaders and teams to think differently, foster innovation, and create new ways to engage with each other and their communities. If you’re ready to transform your LGA’s approach to leadership, reach out to learn more about our Leadership Development Program tailored for Local Government by filling out the form below.