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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 out on 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.
Overview
Strategies, skills and insights to drive a successful leadership career:
- Develop and demonstrate a confident leadership style
- Learn practical strategies to maintain resilience
- Incorporate innovative thinking into your leadership approach
- Create a personalised game plan for achieving leadership success.
The speaker is Louise Thomson, a leadership development specialist.
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 leaders to senior executives. He is 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.
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-issues briefings, ministerial submissions and second-reading speeches.
Experience ”real-life” 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.
Working Effectively at the APS 5 Level
Date: 20 February, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Two face-to-screen sessions, three hours each
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This program will help you understand the work-level standards, capability requirements and behavioural expectations at the APS 5 level. The program focuses on the work-level expectations and capability requirements at the APS 5 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 5 work levels and capability requirements with the APS 4 level.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 4 – APS 5.
QLD Public Sector AO 5-6 High-Performance & Leadership Workshop
Date: 20-21 February, 2024
Time: All day
Location: Cliftons Brisbane
24/288 Edward St, Brisbane City, QLD
Email: [email protected]
Enhance core skills and key leadership capability to achieve success and excel.
Overview
- Enhance your leadership capabilities as a confident and successful AO 5-6 leader
- Strengthen and mobilise unique talents and capabilities of the workforce
- Lead with focus and optimism in complex environments
- Career planning and pathways in AO 5-6 roles.
The speaker is Martin Brooker, a distinguished veteran with 37 years of service in the Royal Australian Navy, who boasts a career marked by command at sea and operational excellence in the Middle East, Afghanistan and the Pacific.
Retiring in 2015 as a commodore, he transitioned to become the founder and director of the Quench Group. Specialising in personal and organisational change, Martin draws from his rich leadership experiences and culture-change initiatives.
Recognised with awards such as the Conspicuous Service Cross and a Commendation for Distinguished Service, he shares authentic insights on leadership challenges. A passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion, Martin serves as an R U OK? community ambassador.
Strategic Leadership
Date: 21 February, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Four three-hour face-to-screen sessions
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
Take an in-depth look at shaping strategy with a sense of purpose and direction, using information and opportunities, and showing judgement and common sense. Use environmental scanning and best-practice models and tools to help anticipate the consequences and trade-offs of actions.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for EL 1 – EL 2.
Professional Writing Essentials for Government
Date: 21 February, 2024
Time: All day
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Overview
High-impact toolkit to transform your writing skill set in government:
- Make your written communication more impactful and engaging
- Write with confidence and build skills to write clearly and concisely
- Understand common writing mistakes and how to avoid them
- Plan and tailor your writing to your audience.
Speaker Adrian Cropley is a certified strategic communication management professional and past global chair of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). Adrian is widely recognised as one of the world’s foremost experts in strategic communication. He is the founder of the Centre for Strategic Communication Excellence and CEO at Cropley Communication.
With a career spanning more than 30 years, Adrian has worked with clients all over the world on major change communication initiatives, internal communication reviews and strategies, professional development programs, and executive leadership and coaching.
4th Annual Driving Risk-Based Regulation
Date: 21-22 February, 2024
Time: All day
Location: Hybrid
Email: [email protected]
Build a robust risk-based framework. Enrich your understanding and shape the future of regulatory practices.
As the journey towards risk-based regulation matures for some regulators and begins for others, the 4th Annual Driving Risk-Based Regulation Conference is your opportunity to connect with regulatory peers, colleagues and experts from diverse jurisdictions.
This event offers a unique platform to enhance your regulatory knowledge, exchange valuable experiences, and collectively navigate the path to a more effective risk-based regulatory approach.
QLD Government Professional Writing Essentials
Date: 22 February, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Cliftons Brisbane
24/288 Edward St, Brisbane City, QLD
Email: [email protected]
Overview
Transform your writing skills with a high-impact toolkit for lasting success:
- Make your written communication more impactful and engaging
- Write with confidence and build skills to write clearly and concisely
- Understand common writing mistakes and how to avoid them
- Plan and tailor your writing to your audience.
Speaker Adrian Cropley is a certified strategic communication management professional and past global chair of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
Adrian is widely recognised as one of the world’s foremost experts in strategic communication. He is the founder of the Centre for Strategic Communication Excellence and CEO at Cropley Communication.
With a career spanning more than 30 years, Adrian has worked with clients all over the world on major change communication initiatives, internal communication reviews and strategies, professional development programs, and executive leadership and coaching.
