Moves That Matter

Funding. Artificial Intelligence. Climate. Seemingly impossible trade-offs. In our complex and ambiguous space, risk is too often managed defensively, not strategically. Decisions can be compliance driven, not impact focused. Risk aversion comes at the cost of impact.

Moves That Matter is a high-impact, in-person learning experience for humanitarian and global development leaders. It complements existing risk frameworks, focuses on behaviours, not theory, and simulates real pressures, constraints and situations. Participants learn with and from cross-sector peers.

The day is built around 8 Moves – collections of behaviours and techniques that support you in ambiguous situations to cut through uncertainty, collaborate more effectively, navigate trade-offs and help close the gap between compliance and lived realities.

Who should attend?

All decision-makers involved in global development will benefit from Moves That Matter, but especially:

• Program Directors and Managers
• Partnership Managers
• Public servants at APS6, EL1 and EL2
• NGOs, Managing Contractors and Australian Government.

What should I expect?

Moves That Matter is delivered in-person through a lively, one-day workshop with cross-sector peers. Your delegate package includes:

• Materials to prepare you for the experience
• A morning focussed on exploring the Moves together through discussion, sharing and exercises
• An afternoon focussed on a simulation applying the Moves
• The Moves Manual and Moves Memoire to take away, giving you a toolbox to use again and again.

What will I learn?

Moves That Matter aims to help you feel more confident to:

• Make better, risk-based decisions amidst uncertainty
• Collaborate through more locally led approaches to managing risk
• Navigate ambiguous, changeable and complex situations within existing risk frameworks
• Prioritise risks, make informed trade-offs and appreciate how system dynamics shape outcomes.