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The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway is designed to meet the current and future needs of the asset and infrastructure focused public works professional. The Pathway supports your career development as an asset custodian, building your capability with practical online courses, underpinned by our world best practice publications.

Support your future with the IPWEA Asset Management Pathway

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway has been designed with 3 levels of learning – Foundations, Build and Recognise levels each featuring courses that are fast becoming the industry standard in training for asset, fleet and infrastructure focused professionals.

With no prerequisites to any of the courses, you can start your training at any level and start building your Asset Management capabilities that benefit your career and your organisation. And now you can link courses together to seek recognition under the WPiAM Global Certification Scheme.

FOUNDATIONS level features courses designed to help you understand the key concepts and theories of asset management

Be Recognised by the World Partners in Asset Management

IPWEA has recently announced the World Partners in Asset Management (WPiAM) have endorsed the completion of two IPWEA Asset Management Pathway courses, the Professional Certificate in Asset Management Planning and Integrating Asset Management and Governance, as satisfying the knowledge requirements equivalent to the Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) certification.

This enables IPWEA AM Pathway participants to leverage their educational achievements, when combined with 5-years demonstrated experience in Asset Management, to make an application for the Certified Practitioner in Asset Management (CPAM) designation, and when combined with 8 years demonstrated experience, for the Certified Senior Principal in Asset Management (CSAM) designation via the Global Certification Scheme.

All IPWEA courses are now open for registration! 

Click here to register you or your team today.

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway is designed to meet the current and future needs of the asset and infrastructure focused public works professional. The Pathway supports your career development as an asset custodian, building your capability with practical online courses, underpinned by our world best practice publications.

Support your future with the IPWEA Asset Management Pathway

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway has been designed with 3 levels of learning – Foundations, Build and Recognise levels each featuring courses that are fast becoming the industry standard in training for asset, fleet and infrastructure focused professionals.

With no prerequisites to any of the courses, you can start your training at any level and start building your Asset Management capabilities that benefit your career and your organisation. And now you can link courses together to seek recognition under the WPiAM Global Certification Scheme.

BUILD courses are where you apply your knowledge and build deep capability in asset management and infrastructure financial management.

Be Recognised by the World Partners in Asset Management

IPWEA has recently announced the World Partners in Asset Management (WPiAM) have endorsed the completion of two IPWEA Asset Management Pathway courses, the Professional Certificate in Asset Management Planning and Integrating Asset Management and Governance, as satisfying the knowledge requirements equivalent to the Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) certification.

This enables IPWEA AM Pathway participants to leverage their educational achievements, when combined with 5-years demonstrated experience in Asset Management, to make an application for the Certified Practitioner in Asset Management (CPAM) designation, and when combined with 8 years demonstrated experience, for the Certified Senior Principal in Asset Management (CSAM) designation via the Global Certification Scheme.

All IPWEA courses are now open for registration! 

Click here to register you or your team today.

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway is designed to meet the current and future needs of the asset and infrastructure focused public works professional. The Pathway supports your career development as an asset custodian, building your capability with practical online courses, underpinned by our world best practice publications.

Support your future with the IPWEA Asset Management Pathway

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway has been designed with 3 levels of learning – Foundations, Build and Recognise levels each featuring courses that are fast becoming the industry standard in training for asset, fleet and infrastructure focused professionals.

With no prerequisites to any of the courses, you can start your training at any level and start building your Asset Management capabilities that benefit your career and your organisation. And now you can link courses together to seek recognition under the WPiAM Global Certification Scheme.

BUILD courses are where you apply your knowledge and build deep capability in asset management and infrastructure financial management

Be Recognised by the World Partners in Asset Management

IPWEA has recently announced the World Partners in Asset Management (WPiAM) have endorsed the completion of two IPWEA Asset Management Pathway courses, the Professional Certificate in Asset Management Planning and Integrating Asset Management and Governance, as satisfying the knowledge requirements equivalent to the Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) certification.

This enables IPWEA AM Pathway participants to leverage their educational achievements, when combined with 5-years demonstrated experience in Asset Management, to make an application for the Certified Practitioner in Asset Management (CPAM) designation, and when combined with 8 years demonstrated experience, for the Certified Senior Principal in Asset Management (CSAM) designation via the Global Certification Scheme.

All IPWEA courses are now open for registration! 

Click here to register you or your team today.

2 Day Workshop

In person and remote connection places available

Another two-day immersion, delivered by experienced policy professional, Nonie Malone, and awarded government writing educator, Sandra Hogan, this workshop will hone your skills so you and your decision-makers have confidence in your written communications. 

Topics Covered:

• Know the critical importance of writing in the policy development process
• Understand how to use policy documents to reach and influence decision-makers
• Know how to navigate the complex policy environment
• Distinguish the elements of good policy writing and learn by doing
• Know how to engage internal and external stakeholders effectively
• See how policy documents influence and embody policy
• Develop confidence in planning and creating policy documents
• Know how to communicate accurately, briefly and comprehensively 

Course Outline

Day One: Policy writing in context and action

 1. Policy writing ideals and reality

• Exploration of writing experiences
• What goes wrong in policy writing?
• What is needed to produce good work?

2. Essential writing to support the stages of the policy cycle

• Overview of the nature of policy and the policy cycle
• Policy documents and their purposes

3. Identifying and reaching the right audience

• Identify the target and incidental audiences for each type of document
• What strategies do you need to meet the needs of the particular audience?

4. Briefing note and correspondence writing tools & skills

• What gets in the way of writing a good brief or letter and what to do about it
• What content do you need and how do you organise it?
• Getting your point across

5. Communicating clearly #1 – why grammar & punctuation count

• Taking the pain out of grammar & punctuation (group exercise)

Day Two: Influencing through policy writing

1. Plain English tools & skills

• How to recognise and avoid jargon and obfuscation
• When and how should technical language be used
• The language of policy
• How to communicate the complex simply

2. Convincing decision-makers

• What do decision-makers want and need?
• How to argue for the best course of action
• How to write recommendations that lead to decisions

3. Cabinet submissions, discussion (green) papers, white papers

• What are these documents for?
• What makes a good cabinet submission?
• Complexity made simple – planning and creating Cabinet submissions

4. Communicating clearly #2

• Sentence by sentence – writing for clarity
• Presentation without words

5. Managing for efficiency and effectiveness as a policy writer

• How to find strategies and resources to help you reach ideals
• How to foster conditions in your agency to facilitate your writing
• Personal skills for policy influence.

Digital innovation in NZ has spread across modernising the cloud-based workplace, increasing agility in response to crises and tackling the digital divide that emerged more so during the pandemic.

Join us at our 2022 FST Government New Zealand conference, as we invite thought leaders from the public sector and tech industry to chart NZ’s ongoing progress towards a unified eGovernment and track its digital innovation pipeline and citizen reception.

Experience this full-day summit alongside 160+ of your public sector peers, including senior executives from NZ’s top ministries and agencies. Hear firsthand from the experts who are driving innovation and a successful digital transformation journey within the NZ public sector.

Join us where we’ll explore:

• NZ’s post-COVID recovery plan after the release of their ‘Wellbeing Budget’
• The implementation of NZ’s internal and external cloud migration strategies
• Whole-of-government digital transformation
• How digital resources support the Government’s responses to the distinct needs of citizens
• Data governance and privacy mandates
• The future of connectivity in New Zealand
• A next-generation cybersecurity strategy that is adaptive, intuitive and automated

Agenda Speaker Highlights Include:

• The Hon Dr David Clark, Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Minister for the Digital Economy and Communications, Minister for State Owned Enterprises and Minister of Statistics
• Chris Seed, Chief Executive and Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• Suzanne Stew, Deputy Chief Executive Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
• Mike Cunnington, Deputy Commissioner, Information & Intelligence Services, Inland Revenue
• Wendy Hamilton, General Manager Data System Strategy and Capability – Data System Leadership, Stats NZ

Register Free: https://events.fst.net.au/FSTGov_Inside_NZ_Registration

It seems that the New Zealand Government is continuing its digital success stories from recent years, as it reconfigures the COVID-19 pandemic as a learning curve for how to better leverage technology to digitally-enable Government operations and citizen outcomes for the future. Digital innovation in NZ has spread across modernising the cloud-based workplace, increasing agility in response to crises and tackling the digital divide that emerged more so during the pandemic.

These policies form part of NZ’s threefold digital government strategy, which also comprises a strategy for digital public service and a Government digital work programme with trust, inclusion and growth at the forefront. Focused on enhancing citizen literacy, experience, accessibility and connectivity, these efforts continue to drive NZ along the path of innovation and a successful digital transformation journey. Join us at our 2022 FST Government New Zealand conference, as we invite thought leaders from the public sector and tech industry to chart NZ’s ongoing progress towards a unified eGovernment and track its digital innovation pipeline and citizen reception.

Join us where we’ll explore:

• NZ’s post-COVID recovery plan after the release of their ‘Wellbeing Budget’
• The implementation of NZ’s internal and external cloud migration strategies
• Whole-of-government digital transformation
• How digital resources support the Government’s responses to the distinct needs of citizens
• Data governance and privacy mandates
• The future of connectivity in New Zealand
• A next-generation cybersecurity strategy that is adaptive, intuitive and automated

ATTENDANCE IS STRICTLY FOR PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES ONLY

Rethinking Housing will assess how New Zealand’s housing market has transformed over the last year and what we can expect to see on the horizon.

The event will explore a range of innovations in tenure model, construction methods, partnerships and financing, that can make a real difference. The event also provides an opportunity for New Zealand to reassess our relationship with housing as we stive to make housing more equitable and attainable for future generations and whānau.

Featuring a line-up of housing experts and professionals, Rethinking Housing will delve intoalternative home ownership models, how renting could be revolutionised and whether Kiwi’s relationship with housing can change.

Key Themes:

• Analysing the current housing market and predicting how it’ll change
• Exploring alternative home ownership options
• Improving Māori home ownership and the rate of development on ancestral land
• Revolutionising the rental market to make renting a viable long-term choice
• Practical case studies offering insights into how housing can be made more affordable

Date: 26-27 September

Venue: Auckland

Pricing:

• $2499+GST
• $1999 + GST – Special pricing for registered Local and Central Government / Māori Trusts ? Community Housing Providers

Group Pricing

Buy 2 tickets for the Forum & get 1 free. (T&Cs apply)

Super saver pricing ends 19 August

View Agenda:  https://www.brightstar.co.nz/events/rethinking-housing-2022/agenda

Adapting to the impacts of climate change is becoming a higher priority for New Zealand as more communities are threatened. Pressure is mounting on the public and private sectors to create and deliver plans to prepare, adapt and manage the impacts of climate change.

This conference will provide a timely opportunity to review the implications of the latest scientific evidence and analysis, explore the emerging adaptation policy frameworks, discuss case studies and action plans of adaptation to the impacts of climate change locally and internationally. ​

Reasons to attend: 

• Learn about the NZ resilience vision and adaptation plan 
• Review the latest legal updates that affect the climate resilient sector 
• Hear from case study sessions on risk mitigation strategies from both local and international 
• Explore ways to improve the climate resilience of infrastructure in NZ 

Date: 26-27 October 2022, Auckland

Venue: Auckland

Pricing:

• $2499+GST
• $1999 + GST – Special pricing for registered Local and Central Government / Māori Trusts / Community Housing Providers

Group Pricing

Buy 2 tickets for the Forum & get 1 free. (T&Cs apply)

Super saver pricing ends 19 August

Agenda: https://www.brightstar.co.nz/events/climate-resilient-towns-communities/agenda

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway is designed to meet the current and future needs of the asset and infrastructure focused public works professional. The Pathway supports your career development as an asset custodian, building your capability with practical online courses, underpinned by our world best practice publications.

Support your future with the IPWEA Asset Management Pathway

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway has been designed with 3 levels of learning – Foundations, Build and Recognise levels each featuring courses that are fast becoming the industry standard in training for asset, fleet and infrastructure focused professionals.

With no prerequisites to any of the courses, you can start your training at any level and start building your Asset Management capabilities that benefit your career and your organisation. And now you can link courses together to seek recognition under the WPiAM Global Certification Scheme.

RECOGNISE level course will consolidate your learning and enhance your skills with strategic thinking and decision making, leading to an internationally recognised designation.

Be Recognised by the World Partners in Asset Management

IPWEA has recently announced the World Partners in Asset Management (WPiAM) have endorsed the completion of two IPWEA Asset Management Pathway courses, the Professional Certificate in Asset Management Planning and Integrating Asset Management and Governance, as satisfying the knowledge requirements equivalent to the Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) certification.

This enables IPWEA AM Pathway participants to leverage their educational achievements, when combined with 5-years demonstrated experience in Asset Management, to make an application for the Certified Practitioner in Asset Management (CPAM) designation, and when combined with 8 years demonstrated experience, for the Certified Senior Principal in Asset Management (CSAM) designation via the Global Certification Scheme.

All IPWEA courses are now open for registration! 

Click here to register you or your team today.

2 Day Workshop

In person and remote connection places available

Interactive learning for practitioners responsible for writing and implementing the policies and procedures used by organisations, businesses and management committees.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the function of policy for organisations and their oversight bodies
• Identify the policies and procedures needed for your organisation
• Understand the stages of the policy-development process
• Know how to engage approvers, implementers and those affected to test and deliver what is needed and to facilitate approvals by decision-makers
• Know how to write policies and procedures that are clear and concise
• Understand the features of a good organisational system for policy, procedure and guideline development
• Know how to facilitate smooth implementation
• Know how to plan for long-term management and evaluation

Course Overview

Day One:  Planning organisational policy and procedures

1. Policy issues

• What is policy? (From public policy to organisational policy)
• Policies vs procedures
• Policy as smoke screen or aspiration

2.  Organisational policy

• Why do you need policies and procedures?
• What makes policies and procedures work?
• What does good policy look like?
• Your organisation: What do you have? What do you need?
• Managing policy development in a changing organisational environment

3.  Policy approvers, responsible officers and users

• What do policy approvers, responsible officers and users want and need?
• Providing what they need: the briefing note and board paper
• Encouraging engagement and buy-in

4. What does good policy look like?

• Common threads and organisational differences
• Understanding successful policy
• Defining policy scope (and avoiding policy creep)
• Developing a policy framework
• Developing a policy template 

Day Two: Writing and implementing organisational policy and procedures

5. Developing content for policies and procedures

• Research and needs analysis
• Engaging stakeholders
• Consulting across the organisation
• Checklists – friend or foe

 6. Writing for clarity and purpose

• Working with your template
• Achieving the right style and tone
• Writing in plain English
• Writing strategies

7. Implementation and communication

• Achieving sign-off and agreement
• Integrating policy across the organisation
• Encouraging uptake
• Making policies findable and searchable
• Making policy part of everyday business
• Policy as part of workplace induction

8. Evaluation and long-term management

• Guiding and training authors
• Policy coherence and internal consistency
• Registering, revising and reviewing policies
• Evaluating policy and procedures
• Everything you still want to know

2 Day Workshop

In person and remote connection places available

This program combines a comprehensive research foundation with practical exercises to embed evaluation practice in policy practitioners’ and program developers’ work. Essential to evidence-informed policy and critical to any program planning and development. Important to anyone who wants to design good policy.

Delivered by experienced policy professional, Nonie Malone and highly experienced evaluation expert, Marion Norton. Build your competence to plan, commission and execute robust evaluations – essential for robust policy. This workshop shows how to develop meaningful performance measures to check that policy goals are being realised in implementation – often the missing ingredient to success.

Topics Covered:

• Understand the role of evaluation in delivering efficient & effective outcomes for government 
• Know how to plan for and deliver quality evaluation that is fit for purpose and audience
• Know how to influence the authorising environment to ensure quality evaluations can occur
• Understand and know how to select and use evaluation methodologies
• Develop capability in commissioning and managing evaluations 
• Gain and refine program logic skills
• Know how to develop the evidence-base from policy idea to post-program implementation
• Become familiar with the best information available to support your evaluation responsibilities and practice.

Course Overview

Day One: Fundamental Evaluation Skills 

1. Role of evaluation in policy decision-making

• What is policy – where does it come from?  
• From policy  to program – governments and non-government organisations.
• What determines failure vs success in policy and programs?  
• What is evaluation?
• What do we evaluate and why?
• Role of the policy officer in evaluation  

2.  Evaluation skills for policy and programs

• Applying program theory to uncover what works
• Building outcome chains
• Using program logic as a formative policy analytical tool

3.  Basic evaluation tools

• Creating an evaluation framework to specify what, how and when to evaluate
• Identifying objectives, high-level evaluation questions, what to measure and sources of evidence

4. Scoping evaluation questions and data instruments

• Understanding the purpose of the evaluation
• Identifying perspectives of internal and external stakeholders to inform design and scope
• Involving internal and external stakeholders in evaluation processes
• Identifying and designing data instruments (incl. surveys, interviews, audits)
• Revealing unintended consequences

Day Two: Applied Evaluation Skills for For Policy & Programs 

5. Evaluation design – choosing methodologies

• Designing at the beginning of the policy cycle
• Choosing time and place for different methods
• Applying techniques for formative and summative evaluation
• Demystifying evaluation terms
• Designing at the end of the policy cycle

 6. Evaluation planning, commissioning and governance

• Integrating phases of evaluation with policy development and implementation
• Managing meaningful evaluation with resource constraints
• Incorporating ethical and culturally-appropriate practices
• Securing authority and commitment for conduct and use of evaluation that fulfills its purpose

7. Building credibility through robust analysis and reporting

• Making sense of evaluation data
• Using sound research practices
• Determining cause and effect, and challenging assumptions
• Answering evaluation questions
• Reporting findings to various audiences

8. Open session

• Setting and meeting evaluation requirements for service providers
• Developing competencies and skill building
• Discuss Queensland Program Evaluation guidelines and other practical guidance

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway is designed to meet the current and future needs of the asset and infrastructure focused public works professional. The Pathway supports your career development as an asset custodian, building your capability with practical online courses, underpinned by our world best practice publications.

Support your future with the IPWEA Asset Management Pathway

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway has been designed with 3 levels of learning – Foundations, Build and Recognise levels each featuring courses that are fast becoming the industry standard in training for asset, fleet and infrastructure focused professionals.

With no prerequisites to any of the courses, you can start your training at any level and start building your Asset Management capabilities that benefit your career and your organisation. And now you can link courses together to seek recognition under the WPiAM Global Certification Scheme.

FOUNDATIONS level features courses designed to help you understand the key concepts and theories of asset management.

Be Recognised by the World Partners in Asset Management

IPWEA has recently announced the World Partners in Asset Management (WPiAM) have endorsed the completion of two IPWEA Asset Management Pathway courses, the Professional Certificate in Asset Management Planning and Integrating Asset Management and Governance, as satisfying the knowledge requirements equivalent to the Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) certification.

This enables IPWEA AM Pathway participants to leverage their educational achievements, when combined with 5-years demonstrated experience in Asset Management, to make an application for the Certified Practitioner in Asset Management (CPAM) designation, and when combined with 8 years demonstrated experience, for the Certified Senior Principal in Asset Management (CSAM) designation via the Global Certification Scheme.

All IPWEA courses are now open for registration! 

Click here to register you or your team today.

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway is designed to meet the current and future needs of the asset and infrastructure focused public works professional. The Pathway supports your career development as an asset custodian, building your capability with practical online courses, underpinned by our world best practice publications.

Support your future with the IPWEA Asset Management Pathway

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway has been designed with 3 levels of learning – Foundations, Build and Recognise levels each featuring courses that are fast becoming the industry standard in training for asset, fleet and infrastructure focused professionals.

With no prerequisites to any of the courses, you can start your training at any level and start building your Asset Management capabilities that benefit your career and your organisation. And now you can link courses together to seek recognition under the WPiAM Global Certification Scheme.

BUILD courses are where you apply your knowledge and build deep capability in asset management and infrastructure financial management.

Be Recognised by the World Partners in Asset Management

IPWEA has recently announced the World Partners in Asset Management (WPiAM) have endorsed the completion of two IPWEA Asset Management Pathway courses, the Professional Certificate in Asset Management Planning and Integrating Asset Management and Governance, as satisfying the knowledge requirements equivalent to the Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) certification.

This enables IPWEA AM Pathway participants to leverage their educational achievements, when combined with 5-years demonstrated experience in Asset Management, to make an application for the Certified Practitioner in Asset Management (CPAM) designation, and when combined with 8 years demonstrated experience, for the Certified Senior Principal in Asset Management (CSAM) designation via the Global Certification Scheme.

All IPWEA courses are now open for registration! 

Click here to register you or your team today.

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway is designed to meet the current and future needs of the asset and infrastructure focused public works professional. The Pathway supports your career development as an asset custodian, building your capability with practical online courses, underpinned by our world best practice publications.

Support your future with the IPWEA Asset Management Pathway

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway has been designed with 3 levels of learning – Foundations, Build and Recognise levels each featuring courses that are fast becoming the industry standard in training for asset, fleet and infrastructure focused professionals.

With no prerequisites to any of the courses, you can start your training at any level and start building your Asset Management capabilities that benefit your career and your organisation. And now you can link courses together to seek recognition under the WPiAM Global Certification Scheme.

BUILD courses are where you apply your knowledge and build deep capability in asset management and infrastructure financial management

Be Recognised by the World Partners in Asset Management

IPWEA has recently announced the World Partners in Asset Management (WPiAM) have endorsed the completion of two IPWEA Asset Management Pathway courses, the Professional Certificate in Asset Management Planning and Integrating Asset Management and Governance, as satisfying the knowledge requirements equivalent to the Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) certification.

This enables IPWEA AM Pathway participants to leverage their educational achievements, when combined with 5-years demonstrated experience in Asset Management, to make an application for the Certified Practitioner in Asset Management (CPAM) designation, and when combined with 8 years demonstrated experience, for the Certified Senior Principal in Asset Management (CSAM) designation via the Global Certification Scheme.

All IPWEA courses are now open for registration! 

Click here to register you or your team today.

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway is designed to meet the current and future needs of the asset and infrastructure focused public works professional. The Pathway supports your career development as an asset custodian, building your capability with practical online courses, underpinned by our world best practice publications.

Support your future with the IPWEA Asset Management Pathway

The IPWEA Asset Management Pathway has been designed with 3 levels of learning – Foundations, Build and Recognise levels each featuring courses that are fast becoming the industry standard in training for asset, fleet and infrastructure focused professionals.

With no prerequisites to any of the courses, you can start your training at any level and start building your Asset Management capabilities that benefit your career and your organisation. And now you can link courses together to seek recognition under the WPiAM Global Certification Scheme.

Be Recognised by the World Partners in Asset Management

IPWEA has recently announced the World Partners in Asset Management (WPiAM) have endorsed the completion of two IPWEA Asset Management Pathway courses, the Professional Certificate in Asset Management Planning and Integrating Asset Management and Governance, as satisfying the knowledge requirements equivalent to the Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) certification.

This enables IPWEA AM Pathway participants to leverage their educational achievements, when combined with 5-years demonstrated experience in Asset Management, to make an application for the Certified Practitioner in Asset Management (CPAM) designation, and when combined with 8 years demonstrated experience, for the Certified Senior Principal in Asset Management (CSAM) designation via the Global Certification Scheme.

All IPWEA courses are now open for registration! 

Click here to register you or your team today.