States of Change Learning Programme - info session

Are you an ambitious government team, thinking there must be a different, or better way of doing things?

The States of Change learning programme is a practice-led experience that embeds innovation capability and helps public servants become better problem solvers.

In 2019 we'll be running the programme across Australia and New Zealand, and are looking for government teams to take part. This info session is an opportunity to hear about the learning programme and what we’re looking for in an application, from Brenton Caffin, Faculty member of States of Change and Executive Director at UK's Innovation Foundation Nesta.

More about the programme:

Over six months, teams take part in the learning programme alongside their day jobs and learn how to take an experimental approach to problem solving. This involves exploring problems from new perspectives, and then testing and iterating possible solutions in order to quickly learn what works and what doesn’t. Importantly, participants also learn how to help create the right conditions for innovation to happen.

Throughout, teams work on real-life projects from their departments that they bring to the programme. This ensures a bias towards practical action and ‘learning by doing’, taking teams on a learning journey where they go from testing out new approaches to applying them in practice.