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Public Sector EL2-SES Women In Leadership Masterclass
Date: 15 – 16 May, 2024
Time: All day
Location: Canberra, ACT
Email: [email protected]
Overview: Upgrade your leadership skills for the Senior Executive Service.
Leadership in the upper echelons of the APS involves much more responsibility, higher cognitive capacity, and a deeper alignment between your characteristics and the requirements of the role.
You have made it this far because you have a high potential to fulfil these requirements. As you step up to SES, it’s time to recognise that “what got you here won’t get you there”. What are the skills, capabilities and even habits that might be standing between you and your career progression to the next level?
Compelling, engaging and hands-on, this unique learning experience will cultivate your professional and personal development to optimise your performance and prepare your leadership at higher levels of the public sector.
You will craft your leadership identity, strengthen your emotional intelligence, confidently communicate with greater influence, and develop key skills for leaders who are setting themselves up to join the upper ranks of the APS.
Facilitator Kathryn Thomas, with a global career of more than 20 years as a management consultant and global learning leader, 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.
Kathryn now is a director in her own business, focusing on people and performance both within government and the private sector. She is an accredited executive coach who has a passion for supporting women in leadership to thrive.
SES Integrity Masterclass Series
Date: 20 May, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Duration: One three-hour face-to-face session
Location: Australian Capital Territory
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
The SES Integrity Masterclass Series is a three-part series designed to support SES staff to strengthen integrity culture within their organisation.
The series has been developed in response to the 2020 Report into consultations regarding APS approaches to institutional integrity, led by Stephen Sedgwick AO.
The series includes:
- Masterclass 1: Championing an integrity culture – video resource (one-hour duration).
- Masterclass 2: Strengthening your workplace integrity culture – four self-directed videos and reading resources (about three-hour duration).
- Masterclass 3: Enhancing integrity capability, face-to-face workshop (three-hour duration).
This content has been provided by the APSC in partnership with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
Suitable for SES Band 1 – SES Band 3.
Management in Action
Date: 21 – 23 May, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4 pm
Duration: Three eight-hour face-to-face sessions
Location: Australian Capital Territory
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This program aims to increase the confidence of managers in using formal authority to achieve business outcomes. This will be done by examining managerial responsibilities in a series of workplace simulations and role-plays.
Learners will be immersed in plausible scenarios to facilitate learning through practice. This allows the exploration of options and decisions without concern for real-time consequences.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 5 – EL 1.
Essential Writing for Executive Levels
Date: 21 – 22 May, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Duration: Two three-hour face-to-screen sessions
Location: Australia-wide
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
Essential writing for executive levels shows participants how to produce documents that are accurate, clear and consistent with government style requirements.
This program is suitable for executive-level staff who are either undertaking writing tasks themselves, managing other employees on a writing task, are new to the APS or have transferred into a role where higher levels of writing skills are required.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for EL 1 – EL 2.
WFP Boost – Organisational Design and Job Design
Date: 21 – 22 May, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 1 pm
Duration: Two 3.5-hour face-to-screen sessions
Location: Australia-wide
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This module explores effective modern organisational design and contemporary job design in the context of workforce planning.
Participants will also explore the impacts of smarter and different ways of working due to external changes and ongoing disruptions.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 5 – SES Band 1.
Contract Management Basics
Date: 21 May, 2024
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Duration: Two-hour face-to-screen session
Location: Australia-wide
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
Contract Management Basics aims to provide APS employees with the fundamental knowledge and skills essential for the management of a Commonwealth contract.
Awareness and understanding of the Commonwealth Procurement Framework is essential to ensure compliance when APS employees must undertake contract management.
This course has been designed to ensure the application of principles, processes, and best practices that form the foundation for success.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 1 – EL 2.
Procurement Basics
Date: 21 May, 2024
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Duration: Two-hour face-to-screen session
Location: Australia-wide
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
Procurement Basics aims to provide APS employees with an introduction to Commonwealth procurement – external site.
Awareness and understanding of the Commonwealth Procurement Framework is essential to ensure compliance when APS employees are required to commit and expend Commonwealth funds through procurement.
This course has been designed to build the procurement and contracting capabilities of employees as the Commonwealth seeks to deliver more strategic value-for-money outcomes when undertaking the purchase of goods and services.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for APS 1 – EL 2.
Understanding Neurodiversity and How to Harness it at Work
Date: 21 May, 2024
Time: All day
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Overview: Why you should embrace neurodiversity in the workplace.
The number of people who identify as neurodiverse or have been diagnosed as neurodivergent is rapidly increasing, and it’s likely that neurodivergent people are on your team.
So why is neurodiversity such a hot topic in the workplace? Because with it, managers and people leaders are able to tap into individual team members’ strengths and preferences so that they are able to perform at their best. And when everyone is able to perform at their best, you have a high-performing team.
Join us for an essential seminar that will build your understanding of the unique strengths of neurodiversity and how to harness them. Discover how embracing different cognitive styles can drive innovation, boost productivity, foster inclusivity and promote retention in the workplace.
Key benefits
- Understand the difference between neurodivergence and neurodiversity.
- Navigate and unlock the profound strengths of neurodivergent team members.
- Manage neurodiversity in your team to drive performance and identify risks.
- Learn to safely manage neurodiverse teams with psychological safety ISO standards.
- Reduce team burnout and poor performance while driving staff retention.
- Become a more effective leader through trust, inclusion, innovation and high performance.
Public Sector Leadership: Managing Performance and Difficult Conversations
Date: 21 – 22 May, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Struggling with difficult conversations? If so, then this workshop is just for you!
Overview: Essential communication and conflict resolution skills to effectively and proactively manage performance.
- Apply performance management practices that reflect best-practice government performance management models.
- Tackle underperformance with the right language, reframing and consistency.
- Understand value drivers for each team member, and tailor your conversations.
- Effectively plan and monitor work processes, and set performance indicators.
Speaker Dr Karen Whittingham is one of Australia’s leading executive management development specialists, having worked with thousands of executives to transition them into senior leadership roles quickly and effectively.
She is an organisational psychologist passionate about people’s success and facilitating their careers to rise. She teaches organisational psychology at UNSW and works with ASX-listed companies and large public-sector organisations to drive engagement, inclusion and performance.
Leading Successful Projects
Date: 22 – 30 May, 2024
Time: 9 am – 12:30 pm
Duration: Four 3.5-hour face-to-screen sessions
Location: Australia-wide
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This program outlines the knowledge, tools and techniques required to lead projects and teams at the executive level.
Understand the project management framework and consider the political and policy context for projects. Learn project governance requirements and project leadership challenges.
Training is in a virtual environment suitable for EL 1 – EL 2.
First Nations Women in Leadership Summit
Date: 22 – 23 May, 2024
Time: All day
Location: Hybrid
Email: [email protected]
Overview: Amplifying the strength, knowledge and culture of First Nations women.
The Hatchery’s inaugural First Nations Women in Leadership Summit is a platform to amplify the voice, wisdom and power, and promote the inherent leadership and resilience of, First Nations women.
An opportunity for women to gather in a united forum, this summit is a celebration of the vital role First Nations women hold as carers, teachers, healers and leaders in their workplaces, families and communities.
Through storytelling, reflection and connection, this summit will build on a strong First Nations network of women and empower them as leaders at the forefront of social change.
Why attend
- Hear the powerful stories of leadership, resilience and strength of First Nations women leading in the community.
- Be inspired by the voices of First Nations women on how to create a determined pathway forward for the empowerment of First Nations women and girls.
- Understand your ”why” and purpose as a leader and be empowered to elevate your individual and collective voice.
- Reflect on and be guided by the wisdom of First Nations matriarchs and generations of strong women in leadership.
