Check out the latest public sector networking and education events. Photo: Supplied.
Shaping the Future of Leadership: Empowering teams of tomorrow
Canberra businesses are invited to the three-step strategy to teamship session
Date: Thursday, 11 July, 2024
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Location: ICN Office, 123/24 Lonsdale Street, Braddon, ACT
Email: [email protected]
This free event, in partnership with TeamTalks, is a great opportunity for businesses to hear from Birthe Nohrden, a futurist and researcher in the realm of unlocking the collective human potential at work. She specialises in leadership, team dynamics, wellbeing and productivity.
What’s it all about?
What if we start thinking small, not big when it comes to creating a high-performance culture? Can introducing a regular, micro-teamship habit achieve more than sending only the leader on a leadership program?
Birthe will share a case study conducted with EY, to demonstrate how every leader can start the teamship habit using her tested and proven proprietary framework.
VPS 5-6 High-Performance & Leadership Workshop
Date: 23 – 24 July, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Pullman Melbourne On the Park
192 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, Victoria
Email: [email protected]
Overview
Refine core skills to excel in VPS 5-6 roles and beyond.
- Identify and develop your capabilities as a confident and successful VPS leader.
- Build productive relationships and lead proficient teams.
- Drive strategic change and management to meet agency goals.
- Learn about career planning and pathways in VPS roles.
Speaker Louise Thomson is a confident, courageous and passionate woman who contributes her experience and wisdom to those who aspire to be better leaders. With three decades in leadership positions within corporate Australia, the not-for-profit sector, volunteering and her own small business, Louise has experienced almost every situation faced by people leaders and business leaders.
She works with leadership teams and aspiring leaders and is especially passionate about women who need support to rise into leadership roles where decision-making is dominated by only half of the population.
She was once described as an outstanding ‘’blank canvas’’ facilitator, enabling groups to learn from each other while providing strong support and expertise in leadership development.
Tech in Gov
Date: 23 – 24 July, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: National Convention Centre Canberra
Telephone: +61 2 6276 5200
With 100-plus speakers and six conference tracks, Tech in Gov is the most comprehensive cross-sector event for government, IT and executive-level professionals in Australia.
Over two days, Tech in Gov unites buyers such as ICT managers, chief information, data, technology and security officers from federal, state and local government, government business enterprises and national critical infrastructure. It connects them with more than 100 leading industry solution providers who showcase the most essential technologies, products and services for digital innovation.
This is Australia’s platform for senior public and private-sector IT experts to learn, network and source ICT solutions for the ongoing digital transformation within Australian business and government.
The Tech in Gov exhibition is the best opportunity to directly evaluate products side-by-side, meet and connect with new suppliers, and start dialogues with thousands of peers across a wide range of public and private-sector organisations.
The Tech in Gov conference is renowned as a world-class program delivering new insights into all the major trends and developments within the world of cyber security, identity, critical infrastructure, government data and analytics, artificial intelligence and much more.
Public Sector EL1-2 Women in Leadership
Date: 23 July – 13 August, 2024
Time: All day
Location: Live stream
Email: [email protected]
Gain the skills to take on more senior and complex roles.
Specifically designed for EL 1-2 officers and management, this highly interactive masterclass will equip you with the tools and strategies to lead with greater impact and confidently take on more senior and complex roles in the public sector.
Learn to overcome the common internal and external barriers to success faced by women in the workplace, enhance and refine your current leadership skills, and develop new capabilities to take the next step in your career.
Set a career plan, seize progression opportunities and learn how to purposefully lead yourself, your team and your organisation into the workplace of the future.
This interactive course is cognisant of the APS Work Level Standards (WLS) for EL1-EL2 and is designed to reflect and align with the expectations of these roles. It will support and enhance the capabilities and behaviours required of EL1-EL2 roles as per the APS Integrated Leadership System (ILS) essential for high performance.
With a global career spanning more than 20 years as a management consultant and global learning leader, Kathryn Thomas specialises in unlocking performance for people and their organisations.
She has previously worked as an HR senior consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and held global and Asia-Pacific leadership roles with IBM Global Business Services. She brings deep expertise in adult learning, facilitation, leading change and leading with impact.
Editing and Proofreading
Date: 23 – 24 July, 2024
Time: 9 am – 12:30 pm
Duration: Two 3.5-hour face-to-screen sessions
Location: Australia-wide
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This is a highly interactive course on editing and proofing written text for APS 4 – EL 2 levels. It includes writing skills, editing and proofing methods. You will be able to enhance documents for correctness and clarity.
Participants should bring two current samples of writing when they attend. These may be emails, briefs, reports, or other writing from the workplace. Editing practice can be applied directly to their own work. All writing remains confidential and will not be shared or discussed.
This content has been provided by a third party in consultation with the APS Academy. The training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 4 – EL 2.
Delivering Great Policy – Foundations
Date: 24 – 25 July, 2024
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Duration: Two eight-hour face-to-face sessions
Location: Australian Capital Territory
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This package delivers all four modules of Delivering Great Policy. It defines the four core elements required for delivering great policy advice: being clear on intent; being well informed; ensuring solutions are practical to implement; and advice is influential. Participants will complete all four modules in sequence.
This content has been provided by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The training is suitable for APS 3 – APS 6 and APS employees who are new to, or considering a career in, policy development roles.
Ending Coercive Control, Family & Domestic Violence
Date: 24 – 25 July, 2024
Time: All day
Location: Hybrid
Email: [email protected]
Take action on prevention, response and recovery to drive safer outcomes for women.
Family, domestic and intimate partner violence against women is a national crisis and it’s not slowing down. A 2023 study found that 57 per cent of FDV reports included coercive control behaviours. The same study found DV assaults have risen 13.5 per cent in the past five years.
Over two days, the Ending Coercive Control, Family & Domestic Violence Against Women conference brings together practitioners, experts and advocates to educate and inspire attendees. It creates a genuine opportunity for collective education, raising awareness and building relationships.
Discussion on critical issues such as the criminalisation of coercive control, the status of legislation across states, pending changes in family law, and the prevention of, responses to and recovery from coercive control will take centre stage in this thought-provoking, timely and insightful event.
Immediate action is imperative to improve outcomes for women. Connect with peers at this event and be part of the drive for change.
EL 2 Data Leadership
Date: 24 July – 14 August, 2024
Time: 9 am – 1:30 pm
Duration: Four 4.5-hour face-to-screen sessions
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
The EL2 level has a critical role to play in lifting the data capabilities of the APS in all of these dimensions. In addition to their responsibility to show leadership in their use of data in their own activities, EL2s build organisational capability and responsiveness, marshalling professional expertise, and harnessing information and opportunities.
EL2s are also required to help raise the reputation of the entire public service, including by demonstrating professionalism and probity.
This course is designed to enhance data leadership knowledge and capability, focusing on the role data plays in the work of the public service and critical issues that impact on the availability, integrity and use of data. The course is pitched at APS EL2s working in policy, regulatory, corporate, service delivery and other roles. That is, those who might not otherwise see themselves as data professionals.
This learning experience has been created by the Australian National University (ANU) in partnership with the APS Data Profession. The training is in a virtual environment suitable for EL 2.
Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference (APSACC)
Date: 29 – 31 July, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Darwin Waterfront Convention Centre, NT
Email: [email protected]
The Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference (APSACC) is Australia’s premier corruption prevention forum.
APSACC is the leading anti-corruption event in Australia with a primary focus on preventing, exposing and responding to corrupt conduct and corruption risks in the public sector, including all levels of government, elected bodies, the judiciary, police and statutory bodies.
The 2024 event will feature physical and virtual participation, comprising a two-day conference of local and international leaders in corruption mitigation and exposure.
The conference will include plenary sessions, discussion panels and workshops, with scope for developing professional networks across areas of expertise and jurisdictions.
It will provide opportunities for anti-corruption and other agencies, academia, the private sector and other practitioners to discuss and share their experience and expertise.
AWS Public Sector Symposium Canberra
Date: 7 August, 2024
Time: 8 am – 5 pm
Location: The National Convention Centre Canberra
Contact: https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/symposiums/canberra/
Register for the AWS Public Sector Symposium Canberra on 7 August, 2024 to discover how organisations of all sizes are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate innovation and drive their missions forward.
Explore how the cloud can help you enhance security, analyse data at scale, advance sustainability, and achieve your mission—faster and at lower cost. Returning in 2024 with all-new content and speakers, this must-attend event features inspiring keynotes from Australia’s tech leaders, breakout sessions, hands-on workshops, networking hubs, and more.
20+ sessions will cover topics ranging from generative AI and big data analytics to cybersecurity and citizen service transformation. Whether you’re new to the cloud or an experienced user, you’ll gain key knowledge that you can use right away.
