PIAC’s training courses can be tailored to meet your particular requirements and can be delivered in-house.

Choose from an existing course or design your own workshop based on our modules. Between 10 and 25 participants can be accommodated in each course, (12 to 20 preferred).

Which courses can be customised?

You have 2 choices:

CHOICE 1

Choose from PIAC’s public course list and pay a set daily fee (see below).

• Work the System
• Effective Advocacy Skills & Strategies
• Law for Non-Lawyers

All costs include:

• Consultation to determine your training needs and outcomes
• Design and delivery of a training program to match your needs
• Customised learning activities that will be relevant for your participants
• 20 copies of a comprehensive package of materials (extra copies up to 25 participants - $50 extra)
• A collated summary of participant evaluations.

The above costs include travel within Sydney metropolitan area. Outside Sydney, travel costs apply and can be quoted on request. Cost assumes training presented during business hours. After hours and weekends are subject to negotiation and are charged at a higher rate.

• Media Skills Training

$2925 per day plus GST. The maximum number of participants is 10. Unfortunately no discounts are available as PIAC pays external facilitators to present this training.

CHOICE 2

Design your own course by selecting a combination of the modules listed below.

For example, lobbying, negotiation and media skills make up an effective one-day program on advocacy skills. PIAC can also develop new training to meet your needs, based around our areas of expertise and experience. Please get in touch to talk through your options and costs.

Introduction to advocacy

• Definitions and types of advocacy
• Key issues and principles in advocacy
• Advocacy strategies: communication, bureaucratic, political, legal and media.

Working systems

• Overview of government
• Legislative and policy processes
• Having a say in decision-making
• Working with formal decision-makers.

Being an effective community or consumer representative on boards and committees

• Representation, role and rights
• Goals
• Issues for community/consumer representatives on boards and committees
• Planning effective meetings

Negotiation skills

• ‘Principled’ or ‘interest based’ negotiations (the ‘Getting to Yes’ approach)
• Planning negotiation
• Using emotions in negotiation
• Steps in negotiation
• Dirty tricks.

Lobbying skills

• Determining the decision makers: lobbying targets
• Allies and opponents, goals, lobbying kit and follow up
• Lobbying tips and strategies
• Planning an effective delegations.
• Framing your issue.

Media skills

• Tips for working with the media
• Planning your media message
• What makes a good story?
• Managing Interviews
• Developing effective media releases

Elements of Campaigning

• Planning an advocacy campaign using PIAC’s ‘Model of Campaigning’.

 Civics

• Overview of structure, operations and powers of three levels of government in Australia and how to access them
• Key elements in elections and voting.

Civics train-the-trainer

• Training community trainers to present the Civics program.

Introduction to the law and the legal system

• What is law?
• The Australian legal system
• Branches of government
• Courts
• Legal profession
• Finding the law.

Protecting human rights

• Understanding human rights
• International human rights systems
• Human rights protection in Australia
• Gaps in human rights protection
• Models of Human Rights protection
• The arguments for formal human rights protection.

Want to arrange a course or get more information?

To discuss your training needs, obtain a quote or read references from previous PIAC training clients, please contact PIAC Training Co-ordinator, Carolyn Grenville.