Leadership expert and executive coach Fiona Maggs will be the trainer at the Negotiation and Influence Skills Workshop to be held online on 13 May. Photo: Supplied.
Negotiation and Influence Skills Workshop
Date: 13 May
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Overview
Negotiate with strategy, vision and confidence.
- Recognise the importance of negotiation skills in the workplace and everyday life.
- Discover your personal negotiation style and strategies to resolve conflict during a negotiation.
- Investigate how non-verbal communication, persuasion, influence and culture can impact a negotiation.
- Use principled negotiation to respond to critical moments in negotiation simulations.
Trainer Fiona Maggs is a seasoned leader with a wealth of experience spanning more than 17 years at Coca-Cola Amatil. Her senior roles also included sales director at Unilever and managing director at Lumaten Shopper Research Consultancy.
Fiona delivers programs in strategy, problem-solving, sales, negotiations and leadership while also offering executive coaching from emerging leaders to the C-suite. She is passionate about driving growth, building high-performing teams and empowering ambitious leaders.
WFP Boost – Organisational Culture and Determining Crucial Capabilities
Date: 13 May
Time: 10 am – 1:30 pm
Duration: One 3.5-hour face-to-screen session
Location: Virtual
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
The Workforce Planning Boost Program – external site is a collection of modules that target the development of technical workforce planning skills. These units have been co-designed by the APS Centre of Excellence for Workforce Planning, with workforce planning experts and academics from across Australia.
This program is designed for mid-career workforce planners, and those who have completed the Workforce Planning Start-Up Program, to further build their workforce planning toolkit.
While each module is completed individually, they all form a wider program to build workforce planning skills. In this module, participants will apply workforce planning to determine crucial capabilities and understand the organisational culture required to meet future business needs.
This content has been provided by the Australian Public Service Commission. It is suitable for APS 5 – SES Band 1 participants who have completed the Workforce Planning Start-Up Program and/or those with at least two years’ relevant experience in strategic HR practice, workforce planning, organisational design or job design.
Working Effectively at the EL 1 Level
Date: 13 May
Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Duration: One seven-hour face-to-face session
Location: Australian Capital Territory – MoAD (Old Parliament House)
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). It also deepens your understanding of the capabilities and behaviours identified in the APS Integrated Leadership System (ILS), which is 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.
This content has been provided by a third party in consultation with the APS Academy, and is suitable for APS 6 – EL 1.
Conflict Resolution for Managers
Date: 13 – 14 May
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Duration: Two eight-hour face-to-screen sessions
Location: Virtual
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This program teaches the skills to respond to workplace and organisational conflict as a manager, including the tools to coach and support others.
This practical skills-based program explores the causes of workplace conflict, ways to identify and address the early signs, and tools to reduce anxiety and talk skilfully about difficult issues and behaviours in a professional and resilient manner.
This content has been provided by the APS Academy, and is suitable for EL 1 – EL 2.
Coaching and Developing Others
Date: 13 – 20 May
Time: 9 am – 5 pm
Duration: Two eight-hour face-to-face sessions
Location: Australian Capital Territory – MoAD (Old Parliament House)
Email: https://apslearn.apsacademy.gov.au/user_login
This course is designed to improve the way APS employees coach and manage others so they can deliver improved outcomes, ultimately resulting in higher APS productivity.
This content has been provided by the APS Academy, and is suitable for EL 1 – EL 2.
8 Essential Skills for High Performance in Executive Support & Admin
Date: 14 – 15 May
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Overview
Elevate your professional impact by unlocking new approaches to executive support.
- Learn tools for proactive self-management for executive support excellence.
- Develop and maintain resilience in a high-pressure, high-volume environment.
- Manage expectations and manage up.
- Balance your workload and active career planning.
Trainer 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.
Dr Whittingham teaches organisational psychology at UNSW and works with ASX-listed companies and large public sector organisations to drive engagement, inclusion and performance.
Leadership Strategies Series 2025: Online
When: 13 – 14 May; 24 – 25 June; 29 – 30 July; 9 – 10 September
Where: Online (via Teams)
Cost: Ticket prices vary; find out more at Kim Vella Leadership
Join respected executive leadership coach Dr Kim Vella, with the support of esteemed industry professionals, for a new leadership skills pathway: The Leadership Strategies Series. This workshop series gives you access to more than 32 hours of online collaborative learning, including:
- Cutting-edge leadership strategies
- Coaching from PS experts and industry professionals
- Advanced psychometric tools
- Personalised assessments
- Individualised feedback
- Tailored action plans.
This series is delivered in two stages: Essentials level and Enhanced level. Each level comprises two full-day workshops, with a six-week break in between to apply your new skills. You’ll also have the opportunity to join a facilitated peer mentoring session during this time to discuss challenges and insights.
Become the APS leader you can be – confident, balanced, insightful and authentic – by levelling up your leadership skills with the Leadership Strategies Series.
GOVx 2025
Date: 19 – 23 May
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Hyatt Hotel Canberra
Email: [email protected]
Overview
Unlocking the Leadership X-Factor: Exceptional Lessons from Exceptional Leaders. GOVx is the must-attend event for public service leaders, delivering powerful leadership lessons from real-world successes, national crises, transformative projects, and emerging trends shaping the future.
Learn proven strategies, gain fresh insights, and walk away equipped to lead change, drive innovation and make a lasting impact in your role.
- Explore transformative case studies and innovations within the public service.
- Gain actionable insights and leadership strategies for responding to complex challenges.
- Grow your professional network and strengthen collaboration.
- Inspire a culture of leadership and forward thinking within government.
Speakers include:
- Fire and Rescue NSW Commissioner Jeremy Fewtrell
- Digital Transformation Agency general manager Lucy Poole
- Former Department of Health Victoria Chief Health Officer Dr Brett Sutton
- NSW Women’s Safety Commissioner Hannah Tonkin
- Reconciliation Queensland CEO Erin Lang.
TAS Women in Leadership Workshop
Date: 20 – 21 May
Time: 9 am – 4:30 pm
Location: Grand Chancellor Hobart
Email: [email protected]
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.
Trainer Michelle Swallow is a highly experienced director, facilitator, coach and change manager.
Currently the director of Leadership and Change Consultants Pty Ltd, Michelle has built her consulting career on her ability to work with a diverse group of people, concepts, communities and organisations.
Data Storytelling & Visualisation Masterclass Series
Date: 27 May – 31 July
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Online
Email: [email protected]
Learn practical tips and tools to influence decision makers with your data. How do you tell a story with your data and influence key stakeholders?
To be successful in today’s business environment, people not only need to be able to discover and understand new insights, but they also need to communicate those insights effectively.
Join expert data visualisation specialist Paul Hodge for this engaging workshop to gain new skills or refine your existing skills in the core elements of successful data storytelling, including engagement, presentation and design thinking.
Attendees gain high-level insights on how to use data visualisation frameworks and apply tips and tricks to develop data visualisations that will engage, entertain and inspire future decision makers.
You will walk through an example of the end-to-end process of developing an interactive business-focused dashboard, using the industry-leading data visualisation software. You will also develop skills that will help improve the effectiveness of anyone who needs to communicate information and insights with colleagues, peers and the world.
Facilitator Paul Hodge is a data visualisation university lecturer and corporate educator with a passion for exploring the intersection between data, design and storytelling.
By elevating everyone’s potential to engage, inform and leverage design principles, Paul believes that we all have the ability to inspire people and share our insights in ways that can improve the world and make it a more interesting place in which to live.
