Essential Writing Skills for Government

(formerly Effective Writing for Government)

Effective communication in the 21st century requires a strong understanding of both your audience and the best practice tools for crafting engaging and persuasive content. Government communication takes time and energy to produce, and its biggest challenge can often be holding and then keeping that attention. Learn the written techniques for engaging your intended audience.

Essentials for EAs and PAs

Increase your effectiveness and professionalism as an EA or PA as you take the step beyond basic administration, to providing superior service. This course will help you gain the skills and tools to succeed in your challenging role and will give you real insight into its diversity, along with some of its challenges and how you can apply strategies to surpass them.

Managing Your Project: An Introduction to Project Management

Develop the practical skills, tools and knowledge needed for planning, controlling and contributing to projects within your own organisation and beyond.

Mechanics of Government

Gain a thorough insight into the workings of government in Australia. The course focuses on the working of government, the Australian and South Australian political system, and the role of the public sector.

Private: Introduction to Program Evaluation

Policy and program evaluation serves a key purpose in the public sector. It measures the success and public value of key policy or program initiatives. Evaluation enables the communication of this success (or failure) to key stakeholders, the community and serves as evidence to inform future policies or initiatives in the policy area.

Introduction to Public Policy

Learn the key stages in the public policy process, and gain a clear understanding of the role of the public sector in policy development. This course is an essential introduction to public policy, particularly if you are working in government.

Understanding the Public Sector

This course provides a practical overview of the institutions, agencies and processes that make up the South Australian Public Sector. The session will look at the workings of public sector processes with a facilitator who has participated in them.

Writing Policy: The Basics

This workshop gives participants an introduction to understanding how to write public policy. This course focuses on the key elements of good policy writing, the range of policy documents that are commonly used, and how to explain complex ideas in clear terms.