Effective Council Meetings

Duration: Half Day 
Investment: $385 incl GST
Delivery: Face 2 Face & Virtual
(select your preferred delivery method in the enrolment form)

 

Target Audience

Elected Members

 

Overview

This session is designed to provide a positive reboot to refreshing elected member’s understanding of meeting procedures.
 
Supported by the session facilitators, participants will explore with other elected members their experiences of council meetings, and reinforce how the statutory meeting can be best applied in practice.

 

Key Learnings

• Refresher on how the statutory procedures and legislative framework applies
• Revisit when and how to declare conflicts of interest
• Reconsider how you prepare for effective decision-making
• Recap on how to meaningfully participate in a council meeting
• Upholding council decisions post the meeting.

This session covers some topics defined under Module 3 of the Elected Member Mandatory Training Module. For supplementary Elected Members, see information on the special offer available, click here.

 

Facilitator

Sathish Dasan, Principal – Employment and Industrial Relations, Governance – Norman Waterhouse Lawyers
Sathish is the Principal in charge of the Norman Waterhouse Employment & Industrial Relations, Insurance, and Governance & Regulatory teams. Sathish has been named as one of Australia’s leading lawyers in Doyle’s Legal Guide for the last ten years and has earned a reputation as one of South Australia’s pre-eminent specialists in the respective fields of industrial relations, local government and administrative law. 

The Norman Waterhouse Local Government team is the largest of its kind in the State and is widely recognised as the leader in the provision of advice and representation to the local government sector in South Australia. 

Rowena McLean, Director Sector Development - Local Government Association of SA
Rowena leads the delivery and continual improvement of the education and training offering to members.  She has twenty years of senior leadership experience in the local government sector, including supporting Mayors and Elected Members across governance and leadership.
 
As a qualified executive coach with the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL) she also brings a unique combination of skills to support Elected Members in their leadership effectiveness.

 

Additional Information

For further information about the content of this program or to enquire about having this program brought ‘In-House’ to your council or to a ‘Council Hub’ near you please contact LGA Training on 8224 2000 or at training@lga.sa.gov.au.
 
Please understand that by registering you are accepting our policy conditions. For a copy of our policies, please click here.

 

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