Check out the latest public sector networking and education events. Photo: Supplied.
Psychological Safety Toolkit for Managers & Leaders Workshop
Date: 7 February, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Cliftons Melbourne
Level 1, 440 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC
Email: [email protected]
Are you ready to boost productivity and motivation within your team?
Overview
Prioritising wellbeing – A practical guide for managers and leaders on navigating psychosocial risks.
- Define a leader’s role in ensuring a safe and healthy work environment
- Identify psychosocial hazards, red flags and warning signs within your teams and organisation
- Discover the direct correlation between professional success and mental health
- Practical strategies and tools to build a high-performance workplace by prioritising your team’s wellbeing.
Speaker Kevin St Mart is a workplace mental health expert with more than 23 years of experience in work health and safety and is a consultant for the Opus Centre for Psychosocial Risk. With qualifications in business, injury management, and training and assessment, Kevin has a well-rounded understanding of best-practice management of mental health in businesses of all sizes.
Presentation Skills Workshop
Date: 13 February, 2024
Time: 8 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Overview
Practical tips, tools and strategies to plan, deliver and review articulated and competent presentations.
- Develop strategies to create engaging and compelling messages
- Customise your message and delivery for different interfaces and audiences
- Present with confidence, clarity and conviction for a lasting impression that empowers your audience
- Harness your nerves to improve your presentations, pitches and public communication.
Mark Hill, an experienced educator and communication coach, boasts a diverse background, from teaching students of all ages to presenting at prestigious institutions such as Oxford University. With an honours degree in performance studies, a master’s in applied linguistics, and significant progress in a PhD on terrorism and information warfare, he’s demonstrated his ability to tackle various challenges. Although he previously taught his own speaking and pronunciation course in Sydney, Mark now specialises in corporate communication training, particularly in public speaking, solidifying his reputation as an education and coaching leader.
Change Management Foundation
Date: 13 February – 7 March, 2024
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Location: Australia-wide
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
The Change Management Foundation program focuses on developing APS change management capability, thereby building the capacity for government to deliver well-considered and well-planned change. Participants will learn change management fundamentals, skills that can be applied to effectively manage and minimise the impact of change on people and organisations, and increase the effectiveness and value of the change outcomes.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 6 – SES Band 1.
Excel Basics Workshop | Navigate, Calculate, Visualise
Date: 14 February, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Ready to unlock the power of Excel?
Empower yourself with essential spreadsheet skills in this Excel Basics Workshop, opening doors to enhanced productivity, career advancement, and data confidence.
This interactive workshop provides a practical understanding of Excel tools and techniques that will help you become more productive and efficient in your job. You’ll learn how to gain the skills and confidence you need to transform the way you work with data and Excel.
Mandy Vyner is a seasoned IT professional with more than three decades of experience in transformative technology training services, specialising in Microsoft Office solutions. She led successful change initiatives in various sectors, collaborating closely with clients to design precise training programs.
With expertise in instructional design, coaching, mentoring, and project and change management, Mandy excels in facilitating training across diverse industries with a proven history of achieving outstanding results.
APS Unlocked
Date: 14 February, 2024
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Australia-wide
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
APS Unlocked brings together new and returning members of the APS to engage with experienced APS leaders and practitioners, who will share essential information and tips for a successful and productive start in the APS. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and build their APS network to ensure they gain the knowledge, confidence and capability needed in the early days of their APS career.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 1 – EL 1.
Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving Workshop
Date: 15-16 February, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Cliftons Melbourne
Level 1, 440 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC
Email: [email protected]
Overview
Unpack critical thinking as a mental process and set of action steps to address everyday problems.
- Apply practical, outcome-driven models for critical thinking and problem solving
- Expand your perspective and deepen your understanding of issues and problems impacting your work
- Understand team dynamics in problem solving and how to work with others in the process
- Overcome common roadblocks to critical thinking and problem solving.
Speaker Kym Viant is an expert in leadership development, having successfully led, inspired and developed thousands of leaders and managers, from emerging leader to senior executive. He is well recognised as an engaging and dynamic facilitator, educator and coach, who brings this energy to the learning environment to connect and motivate individuals and groups in establishing effective and measurable behavioural changes.
He is currently working with clients, in both the public and private sectors, to develop, deliver and implement constructive behaviours and critical skills for individuals and groups. Before Kym’s move into the learning and development space, he had a decorated and distinguished career in the Royal Australian Navy spanning more than 24 years.
VIC Women in Leadership Workshop
Date: 15-16 February, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Novotel Melbourne on Collins
270 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC
Email: [email protected]
Don’t miss the ultimate opportunity to transform yourself into a powerful leader. This is your final chance to grab a spot at the VIC Women in Leadership Workshop.
Get ready to unleash your potential and walk away with the essential skills you need to make it big in the world of leadership.
You’ll learn to develop your own leadership style, build rock-solid confidence and influence, and master the art of self-promotion to propel your career to new heights.
The speaker is Louise Thomson, a leadership development specialist.
ACCELERATE2Train
Date: 16 February, 2024
Time: 9 am – 1 pm
Location: Face-to-screen
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
ACCELERATE is a training program aimed at staff who deliver technical training, present information or facilitate the delivery of learning in a virtual environment.
The purpose of this ACCELERATE2Train course is to provide participants with the opportunity to gain valuable skills and knowledge in training techniques when delivering in a virtual environment.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 4 – SES Band 2.
ACCELERATE2Present
Date: 16 February, 2024
Time: 10 am – 2:45 pm
Location: Face-to-screen
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
ACCELERATE is a training program aimed at staff who deliver technical training, present information or facilitate the delivery of learning in a virtual environment.
The purpose of this ACCELERATE2Facilitate course is to provide participants with the opportunity to gain valuable skills and knowledge in facilitation techniques when delivering in a virtual environment.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 4 – SES Band 1.
Briefing and Responding to APS Decision-Makers
Date: 20 February, 2024
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Location: Face-to-screen
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This program takes an in-depth look at decision-making and covers the skills required to design, develop and deliver a briefing.
Understand the development and role of question time briefs, ministerial talking points for media engagements, ministerial adviser briefings, hot-issue briefings, ministerial submissions and second-reading speeches.
Experience ”real-life” briefing scenarios that simulate the high pressure and stakes of a government briefing. Learn effective briefing techniques and workshop approaches that build relationships with senior APS decision-makers, ministers and advisers.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 5 – SES Band 2.
Procurement Essentials and Contract Management
Date: 20 February, 2024
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Location: Face-to-screen
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
Procurement and contracting activities are undertaken by a range of APS employees with differing levels of expertise. Procurement essentials and contract management are essential core skills required by all APS employees as part of their role at some stage.
This program has been designed to assist APS employees to understand the Commonwealth Resource Management Framework and demonstrate accountability and transparency in how taxpayers’ money is spent. As a result of this program, participants will be better able to plan and conduct ”value for money” procurements and effectively manage contracts to achieve government outcomes.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 3 – SES Band 2.
