Commander Shaun Fogarty

Director, New Zealand Defence Force

Command and Staff College

Strategies for maintaining quality control standards

through internal and external review and assessment

New Zealand’s

Strategic Environment

Outline

OUTLINE

• The Need • Our Strategies

• New Initiatives

• Take Home Messages

The Need for Review

and Assessment?

• Risks with military

appointment rotations

• The ‘Good Ideas Club’

• Believing ones own

press

• To Deliver on our Aim

OUR AIM

What the College

exists for…

Preparing the emerging leaders of today for the

Defence and Security challenges of tomorrow

College Programs

Joint Command and Staff Course: Major – Lt Col (E)

32 Weeks

Joint Junior Staff Course – CAPT (E)

8 Weeks

Joint Warrant Officer Advanced Course – Senior WO

9 Weeks

College Model

NZDF Ethos and Values

College Philosophy

Com

mand,

Leaders

hip

,

Managem

ent

Str

ate

gic

Stu

die

s

Opera

tions

Effective Leaders and

Competent Military Professionals

CSC Outcomes

CSC Means

CSC Foundations

Inte

rnational

Rela

tions

Joint Warrant Officer Advanced Course

Joint Junior Staff Course

Joint Command and Staff Course

Strategies

Internal

- Comprehensive Course Review – 3 yearly

- Course Validation

- Post Course Report

External

- University Paper Peer Review

- Module Peer Review Panels

Internal Strategy

Comprehensive Course Review

- Senior Officer Interviews

- Focus Groups

- Graduate Surveys

Course Validation

- Current Student Body

- Focus on Content/Presenters

- Risk

Post Course Reports

Course

Validation

Post Course

Reports

Comp

Course

Reviews

Internal

Strategy

College Model

NZDF Ethos and Values

College Philosophy

Com

mand,

Leaders

hip

,

Managem

ent

Str

ate

gic

Stu

die

s

Opera

tions

Effective Leaders and

Competent Military Professionals

CSC Outcomes

CSC Means

CSC Foundations

Inte

rnational

Rela

tions

Joint Warrant Officer Advanced Course

Joint Junior Staff Course

Joint Command and Staff Course

Op Art

Types of War

PSO

LOAC

JOPC

Joint

Campaigning

Aid to Civil Power

(AS Tour)

Operational

Studies

Command

Leadership

Management

HR issues

The Military

Profession

& Ethics

Keynote Speakers

And

Business Visits

Command

Studies

Strategy

Land/Sea/Air Power

Security

NZ Politics

Strategic Environment

Foreign & Defence

Policy

Defence Organisation

Media Training

(NZ Visits)

IR

Theory & Practice

Global Trends

Post-WWII

Regional Issues in the

Asia-Pacific

(Asia Pacific Tour)

International

Relations

Research Essay Option

Strategic

Studies

External Strategy

University Paper Peer Review

- Periodic Paper Reviews

- College/University

Relationship is critical

Module Peer Review Panels

- External Academics

- Subject Matter Experts

Module

Peer Review

Panels

University

Paper Peer

Review

External

Strategy

Academic Relationships

Increase in Honorary Professors

Prof Steve Hoadley

University of Auckland

Prof Rob Ayson

Victoria University

Prof Robert Patman

University of Otago

Partnering Institutions

TBC

TAKE HOME

Mitigate Risk

Establish Robust Strategies

- Internal Methods

- External Experts and

Academics

Terimakasih