Looking for a career move or to improve your skill set? Public sector events can help boost your skills and enhance your job prospects. Here’s what’s currently scheduled. Photo: File.
APS 5-6 High-Performance & Leadership Workshop
Date: 11 – 12 June, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Cliftons Canberra
Level 2, 10 Moore Street, Canberra, ACT
Email: [email protected]
Are you ready to take your career to the next level and become a high-performing leader in the public sector? Look no further than the APS 5-6 High-Performance & Leadership Workshop!
This hands-on, interactive learning session is designed to provide you with a practical leadership plan that you can use to navigate a successful career and advance to senior levels.
Overview: Develop core leadership capabilities to achieve success and excel in APS 5-6 level roles and beyond.
- Identify and develop your capabilities as a confident and successful public sector leader.
- Build productive relationships and lead proficient, capable teams.
- Drive strategic change to improve procedures and meet agency goals.
- Learn about career planning and pathways in APS roles.
Speaker Liz Stephens is an experienced coach and trainer with an extensive career in the public service. Following her successful command tenure at the 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Liz established Ripple Impact, drawing on her experiences to help others be their best selves.
In her ‘’day job’’, Lieutenant Colonel Stephens is a facilitator, coach and mentor at the Australian Command and Staff Course.
APS Leadership Edge
Date: 11 June – 24 December, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Duration: Nine sessions of varying lengths, spread over two-week periods, totalling six months.
Location: Australia-wide
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
APS Leadership Edge is a cohort-based social learning program that will enable EL 2s to develop their leadership and management skills through a range of courses and activities. Four learning sprints will be delivered within the program, based on current APS needs and areas of interest.
The program will provide opportunities to embed learnings through practical application and expand professional networks across the APS through discussions in a large cohort and small-group activities.
By allowing the learners to engage with each other about their learning, we drive deeper connections with the content and more practical assistance in application. This results in learning that sticks. The training is suitable for EL 2.
Procurement Essentials and Contract Management
Date: 12 June, 2024
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Duration: One eight-hour face-to-screen session
Location: Australia-wide
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 – EL 2 and APS employees undertaking procurement and contracting activities, including resource and financial management.
Data Literacy for Government Workshop
Date: 12 June, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Did you know …
Some 73 per cent of managers identified employee skill and capability as a barrier to effectively using data in government – don’t be included in this statistic!
Join us for the exclusive Data Literacy for Government Workshop – a full day of practical and interactive training for non-data professionals across all tiers of government.
Working Effectively at the EL 1 Level
Date: 12 June, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Duration: One seven-hour face-to-face session
Location: Australian Capital Territory
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
Executive-level positions bring new and demanding leadership and management challenges.
This program describes the broad role requirements of EL 1s through the APS Work Level Standards (WLS) and deepens your understanding of the capabilities and behaviours identified in the APS Integrated Leadership System (ILS) critical to high performance at the EL 1 level.
Learn how to confidently and appropriately respond to the challenge of higher expectations and more complex responsibilities. Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 6 – EL 1.
Influence, Negotiation and Persuasion for Executive Levels
Date: 13 June, 2024
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Duration: One eight-hour face-to-face session
Location: Australian Capital Territory
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This course examines aspects of influence and persuasion and the negotiation skills essential for managing and leading at the executive level.
Aspects of leadership and influence and the psychology of persuasion are explored. Work through areas where influence benefits work: for example, communicating with influence, influencing strategy, negotiation styles and how to apply them.
The training is suitable for EL 1 – EL 2.
Working in Teams
Date: 13 June, 2024
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Duration: One eight-hour face-to-screen session
Location: Australia-wide
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
Team development and the value of teams in the workplace are explored in depth. Examine how specific team roles add to team effectiveness and examine your team role preferences. Build an understanding of different working and communicating styles. Walk away with a personalised plan you can use when participating in teams.
NOTE: It is recommended you complete this course before the Building and Leading High-Performing Teams program. Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 3 – EL 2.
Working Effectively at the APS 6 Level
Date: 13 June, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Duration: One seven-hour face-to-face session
Location: Australian Capital Territory
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This program will assist you to understand the work-level standards, capability requirements and behavioural expectations at the APS 6 level.
The program focuses on the work-level expectations and capability requirements at the APS 6 level detailed in the APS Work Level Standards (WLS) and the APS Integrated Leadership System (ILS).
To clarify the step-up in expectations, the program compares the APS 6 work levels and capability requirements with the APS 5 level. The training is suitable for APS 5 – APS 6.
Managing Psychosocial Risk
Date: 12 – 13 June, 2024
Time: All day
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Overview: Practical strategies to create a healthy workplace and meet regulatory obligations.
The prevalence and cost of poor mental health to organisations are increasing and have attracted global attention to better manage psychosocial factors.
Psychosocial risk management is a critical strategy in establishing future organisational success in this current landscape.
Since the Boland Review in 2018, efforts to elevate the protection of psychological health to the same level as physical health have culminated in significant legislative and regulatory change. This includes the new codes of practice and duty of care released across various states for PCBUs to better manage the risk of psychosocial hazards at work and to provide workplaces that eliminate or minimise risks to mental ill-health as far as is reasonably practicable.
It is, however, not as simple as inserting psychosocial hazards into traditional models established to manage risks to physical safety.
In this masterclass, we will explore practical approaches to implementing a Psychosocial Risk Management Framework that will not only allow your organisation to comply with legislative obligations, but genuinely improve the experience of all team members performing their work roles to optimise wellbeing and performance.
QLD Public Sector AO6 to AO7: Management Essentials Workshop
Date: 12 – 13 June, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Cliftons Brisbane
24/288 Edward St, Brisbane City, QLD
Email: [email protected]
Time is of the essence! The clock is ticking, and we don’t want you to miss the chance to join the Queensland public sector‘s highly acclaimed Management Essentials Workshop designed specifically for AO6 to AO7 professionals like you.
Join our vibrant community of like-minded professionals committed to excellence in management and leadership. By investing in your professional development, you’re not only enhancing your skill set but also paving the way for greater career advancement opportunities and making a significant impact within your organisation.
Overview: Essential management skills to strengthen the connections between strategy and results.
- Address changing expectations facing management in the Queensland public sector.
- Strengthen your resilience through emotional intelligence (EI).
- Manage KPIs, set expectations and monitor outcomes.
- Develop a focused, yet flexible, strategy to guide your development.
Speaker Alison Jardie has more than 20 years’ experience in organisational and leadership development across the public and private sectors.
As a trained and experienced psychologist, coach and facilitator, she works with senior teams to implement organisational transformation and leadership and cultural change programs that provide a genuine return on investment.
Alison’s methodology in consulting, coaching and facilitation draws on the disciplines of psychology and management tailored to each client based on their needs. Her approach centres on relational leadership and applied-action learning.
How to Apply for Jobs in the APS – APS Levels
Date: 17 June, 2024
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Duration: One eight-hour face-to-face session
Location: Australian Capital Territory
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This program focuses on the job application process. Practical exercises help participants write applications and perform well in selection activities and interviews.
The training is suitable for APS 1 – APS 6.
NT Women in Leadership Workshop
Date: 19 – 20 June, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Oaks Elan, Darwin
31 Woods Street, Darwin, NT
Email: [email protected]
Unlock the potential within you and step outside your comfort zone with our exclusive Women in Leadership Workshop in Darwin, designed to cultivate a high-performance mindset.
Don’t miss this invaluable opportunity to propel your career forward. You will learn tools and strategies to overcome challenges, lead with confidence, and transform theory into action.
Overview: Enhance your effectiveness as a leader in an evolving professional landscape.
- Develop your individual leadership style.
- Build confidence to lead authentically and effectively.
- Learn the art of confident communication.
- Enhance your ability to influence.
Speaker Catie Kirke specialises in helping individuals and teams achieve personal fulfilment, professional success, and increase their capability, outcomes and potential.
As a transformational and leadership coach, Catie consistently helps clients to have greater purpose and direction, communicate more effectively, be solution-focused, and lead by example.
Catie’s specialties include emotional and social intelligence, mental wellbeing, resilience and self-awareness, confidence, and a positive growth mindset.
The 2nd Data-Driven Regulation Conference
Date: 19 – 20 June, 2024
Time: All day
Location: Hybrid
Email: [email protected]
Overview: Harness the power of data-driven regulation for better decision-making.
The impact that data can have on regulatory work is endless, from being able to regulate better, measure impacts, and ultimately deliver better outcomes with insights from data.
With a surplus of data and information available, it is critical for regulators to establish a data strategy, uplift their data capabilities, drive data literacy and build a data culture that changes the paradigm of being information-rich and knowledge-poor.
The 2nd edition of the Data-Driven Regulation Conference is the only event for regulatory professionals across Australia and New Zealand to share best-practice case studies as they explore how to leverage value from data to enhance strategic, operational, and tactical decision-making for regulatory excellence.
