Guest speakers at the Women in Leadership Summit 2024 are former prime ministers (from left) Helen Clark, Julia Gillard and Theresa May. Photo: Supplied.
Media Skills for Executives
Date: 27 August, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, effective media communication is more critical than ever. As a leader in your organisation, your ability to navigate various media platforms with confidence and credibility can greatly impact both your personal standing and the reputation of your organisation.
We understand the importance of equipping executives and senior leaders like you with the essential skills and strategies to excel in media communication. Our comprehensive Media Skills for Executives workshop is designed to empower you to confidently represent yourself and your organisation across interviews, press conferences, and social media interactions.
Overview
Navigate the media landscape with finesse and mastery:
- Articulate your message with clarity and brevity
- Adapt your communication style to resonate with diverse media audiences
- Master techniques to shape the narrative and steer conversations towards desired talking points
- Apply media skills to real-world scenarios through interactive exercises and role-playing.
With more than 25 years of diverse experience, speaker Amber Daines, the founder of Bespoke Co., brings a wealth of expertise as a former business journalist for TV and print, and a PR consultant. Leading a team of five consultants, she serves clients in financial services, cryptocurrency, and industry associations.
Presently, Amber focuses on media training, crisis PR and reputation management, and hosts her podcast, The Politics of Everything, which has garnered five million downloads and inspired an online course for podcasters.
Essential Writing for Executive Levels
Date: 27 – 28 August, 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 or 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.
This content has been provided by a third party in consultation with the APS Academy. The training is in a virtual environment suitable for EL 1 – EL 2.
QLD Public Sector AO 5-6 High-Performance & Leadership Workshop
Date: 27 – 28 August, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:25 pm
Location: Cliftons Brisbane
24/288 Edward St, Brisbane City, QLD
Email: [email protected]
Don’t miss our sellout QLD Public Sector AO 5-6 High-Performance & Leadership Workshop, where you can hone your current leadership skills and acquire new ones for taking the next step in your career!
Discover practical strategies that will help you develop the core attributes required for successful leadership within the Queensland Public Service!
Overview
Enhance core skills and key leadership capability to achieve success and excel:
- 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
- Be informed about career planning and pathways in AO 5-6 roles.
Speaker Martin Brooker, a distinguished veteran with 37 years of service in the Royal Australian Navy, 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.
Report Writing in the APS
Date: 28 – 29 August, 2024
Time: 1 pm – 4:30 pm
Duration: Two 3.5-hour face-to-screen sessions
Location: Australia-wide
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This course covers the processes for writing reports that adhere to the Commonwealth writing style. Learn to produce documents that have scope, effective research, are organised and interpret information well.
Follow the established structures of good executive summaries, clear findings and easy-to-understand conclusions and recommendations.
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 5 – EL 1.
APS 5-6 Leadership & Skills Week
Date: 27 – 30 August, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Cliftons Canberra
Level 2, 10 Moore Street, Canberra, ACT
Email: [email protected]
Are you an APS 5-6 professional eager to elevate your leadership skills and make a real impact in the Australian public sector? Unlock your potential at the APS 5-6 Leadership & Skills Week – deep dive into leadership, high performance, critical thinking, and problem solving.
Gain practical tools to lead with confidence, drive high-performing teams, think strategically, and solve complex challenges. Why invest in this experience? Because your growth matters.
Overview
Unlock your leadership potential and develop critical skills to advance your APS career. You will be equipped with:
- Effective leadership strategies for high-performance outcomes
- Advanced decision-making skills to tackle complex challenges
- Enhanced critical-thinking abilities for strategic problem solving
- The ability to foster innovation and adaptability in the APS.
Speakers
Michael Collins is one of the region’s leading talent, leadership and change experts, with more than 25 years’ experience in roles spanning Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Having served in executive roles within the Australian Defence Force and Coca-Cola Amatil, Michael is a trusted adviser, thought leader and seasoned practitioner in the field of leadership assessment and development.
Armed with academic credentials including an MBA and a PhD in neurocognitive leadership, he blends practical experience with scholarly insight.
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.
EL 2 Data Leadership
Date: 28 August – 18 September, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
Duration: Four 4.5-hour face-to-screen sessions
Location: Australia-wide
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 data leadership in their use of data in their own activities, EL2s have several leadership responsibilities, including building 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 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 in partnership with the APS data profession. The training is in a virtual environment suitable for EL2.
Human-Centred Design 101
Date: 28 August – 4 December, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Duration: Fourteen face-to-screen sessions ranging from 30 minutes to 2.5 hours (AEST/AEDT)
Location: Australia-wide
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
Apply human-centred design principles to complex problems or opportunities in the public sector.
This program introduces the principles, tools and techniques of human-centred design and how to apply them to service/policy design and implementation. The ultimate aim is to create better citizen-centric outcomes for clients and the community.
This content has been provided by the BizLab Academy at the Department of Industry, Science, Energy, and Resources. The training is suitable for APS 3 – SES Band 3 and APS employees involved in service or policy design and implementation.
Women in Leadership Summit 2024
Date: 28 – 29 August, 2024
Time: All day
Location: Multiple locations
Email: [email protected]
Prepare to be captivated by three trailblazing world leaders on one platform for the first time. Join us to gain not just their wisdom and insights, but understand their authentic selves and the real leader behind the title.
Guest speakers:
- Julia Gillard, the only woman to serve as Prime Minister of Australia
- Theresa May, the second woman to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Helen Clark, the first woman elected as Prime Minister of New Zealand.
This summit isn’t just about inspiration, it’s about empowerment and an unmissable opportunity to gain invaluable advice to chart your own course to success.
Forge meaningful connections with fellow leaders across the nation and dive deep into dynamic discussions that blend practical guidance as we celebrate the rich diversity that unites our leaders and teams.
Banish Confidence Killers & Say Goodbye to Self-Doubt
Date: 30 August, 2024
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Silence your inner critic and make self-confidence a lifetime habit. How does self-doubt manifest? And what can you do about it?
Self-confidence is an action but most of us believe it’s a feeling. And so, we often believe we need to feel confident before doing something. This seminar will help you manage self-doubt and navigate confidence killers both professionally and personally.
Explore how internal factors such as critical self-talk and rumination hurt our confidence and explore why the business of self-improvement is disproportionately directed at women. Take this opportunity to invest in yourself and overcome external factors such as bias and likeability traps.
Let’s normalise self-doubt. Let’s normalise negative feelings. Let’s learn to stop the self-blame. Let’s learn that we’re not the problem and we’re not the sole solution either. Join Maja in this seminar to learn the truth about confidence. Learn what it is and what it isn’t, the myths that surround it and the tools to increase it in your life.
Learn how to:
- Turn the dial down on critical self-talk
- Handle the confidence myths that influence our self-sabotaging behaviours
- Navigate and recognise internal and external obstacles to our confidence
- Re-evaluate your inner critic and build confidence through micro-actions and self-kindness
- Stop self-sabotaging behaviours
- Overcome the bias and likeability traps that erode women’s confidence.
Meet your facilitator:
Professor Maja Jovanovic is an author, TEDx speaker and sociologist.
She is also a confidence builder and apology hater. She graduated with a PhD in sociology in 2014 (focusing on the sociology of women’s health) “with no clear career in mind, until I attended an academic conference that completely changed the trajectory of my research, my career and my life”.
Who should attend?
Aspiring, emerging and existing female leaders from all sectors. If you want to put self-doubt to bed, boost or transform your confidence at work, or simply gain greater self-awareness, this seminar is for you.
Leadership Development and Talent Management with QUT
Date: 4 September, 2024
Time: 12 – 12:45 pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Email: [email protected]
Elevate your leadership in the public sector and gain the confidence and expertise to make a positive difference. If you’re a mid-level manager eager to enhance your managerial and leadership capabilities and advance into leadership roles, Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) Public Sector Management Program (PSMP) is for you.
Tailored for professionals in the Australian public service and non-government organisations, the PSMP boasts more than three decades of proven success.
With more than 10 years of experience delivering the PSMP, QUT’s team of academics and industry professionals equip government professionals with essential skills and expertise for career growth.
