Leadership and development programs

We have an extensive range of leadership courses facilitated by our expert consultants.

 

To book onto one of our Public Programs – Emerging Leaders, Enhancing Your Leadership, or Leadership Futures – please click on the Eventbrite link listed in each of the program descriptions below. Each course can be run either in-house by Agency or as a public course.

 

To register your interest in one of our courses, please email us at [email protected] or call us at 02 6174 0869.

Public Programs

EMERGING LEADERS

APS5 – New EL1
Two-day program

ENHANCING YOUR LEADERSHIP

Experienced EL1
Two-day program

LEADERSHIP FUTURES

EL2 – SES
Five-day program

EMERGING LEADERS

For APS5 to New EL1 level staff. Two-day program followed by an executive coaching session.

Overview: This program helps emerging leaders strike the balance between engaging with strategy, tasks, and others. This practical course outlines your role as a leader while providing the opportunity to learn different skills and techniques that support effective management. You will engage in an interactive workshop that includes personal reflection, dynamic group discussion, and exploration activities. Post-program, you will receive an executive coaching session to transform your learning into action.

Through this course you will:

  • Understand management mindsets that create high-performing teams
  • Utilise coaching, delegation, and situational leadership to manage team workloads
  • Discover your leadership purpose
  • Develop self-awareness using the DiSC Management diagnostic
  • Cultivate influencing skills to inspire others to high-performance
  • Learn how to manage performance through giving constructive feedback
  • Understand the psychological dynamics of leading a team through change

To nominate yourself or a colleague for this exclusive program, please register by using the relevant link below.

Price per person $2,530 inc. GST

Upcoming Program Dates

Dates

Registration links

29-30 May 2024

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23-24 July 2024

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16-17 October 2024

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Facilitated by

Rod Morrison

Renee Mack

ENHANCING YOUR LEADERSHIP

Level: Experienced EL1

Enhancing your Leadership is a 2-day program aimed to support experienced EL1 staff to consolidate their expertise and prepare for the next step in their career. This course will explore building leadership awareness and identifying your purpose, decision making, adaptive leadership, coaching for collaboration, managing difficult conversations, inspiring others and leading in a complex environment.

Inclusions:

    • Two-day workshop
    • DiSC Work of Leaders diagnostic
    • Barrett’s values questionnaire
    • A 360-degree feedback questionnaire
    • An Executive coaching session

To nominate yourself or a colleague for this exclusive program, please register by using the relevant link below.

Price per person $2,950 inc. GST

Upcoming Program Dates

Dates

Registration links

18-19 June 2024
Face to Face

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17-18 September 2024
Face to Face

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11-12 September 2024
Online

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Facilitated by

Barry Poppleton

Francesca Talevi

LEADERSHIP FUTURES: Supporting Frank & Fearless Leaders

For EL2 to SES staff.

Overview

Designed to enhance your ability to innovate, influence, and collaborate with key stakeholders and your team, this program helps you discover who you are as a leader. This is an opportunity to focus on your personal growth and development, equipping yourself for senior leadership roles within the APS through leading with integrity and courage.

Through this course you will:

  • Build your self awareness.
  • Explore leading with authenticity.
  • Build your personal risk tolerance.
  • Create commitment and purpose.
  • Consider how you lead with integrity.
  • Cultivate the skills and courage needed to manage adaptive workplace challenges .
  • Build the skills to strategically influence others and lead change.
  • Develop insightful emotional intelligence for effective stakeholder engagement.
  • Develop practical experience leading others through coaching.
  • Build and maintain resilience through transforming your internal dialogue.

Time Commitment
As a participant, you will attend the 5 day program over the course of 3 months supported by two executive coaching sessions, peer learning circles, and guest speakers. As part of the program, you will be invited to bring a primary leadership challenge that we work through collectively to build insight and strategies for progress.

How to book
To book yourself or a colleague for this exclusive program, please register here.

Price per participant is $5,850 inc. GST and booking fees.

Discounts are also available for multiple bookings. Please email us at [email protected] for more information. 

Upcoming Program Dates

Next program commences June 2024.

Dates

Registration link

18-19 June 2024

30-31 July 2024

27 August 2024

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Participant feedback

“The course really challenges you to move beyond your normal default position.”

“I am more poised, and I’m thinking more strategically about what I’m doing…I have become attached to innovation and I will continue to use it in my work.”

“People have noticed that I am a lot more confident in myself as a leader and I have learnt to take a few more risks.” 

Facilitated by

Barry Poppleton

Francesca Talevi

Rod Morrison

Melody Simenic

Short Courses

The Resilient and Mindful Leader

Two day course facilitated by Barry Poppleton

Leading Teams in Times of Change

Two day course facilitated by Barry Poppleton

Inclusive Leadership

Two day course facilitated by Di van Meegen

Leading in a Complex Environment

Two day course facilitated by Barry Poppleton

The resilient and mindful leader

Outline

  • The importance and place of resilience in leadership
  • Building resilient teams and people
  • The power of being fully and engaged
  • Dealing with failure
  • Mindfulness: theory and practice

Duration

Two days

Cost

$1500 per person

Facilitator

Barry Poppleton

Leading teams in times of change

Outline

  • Your role as a change leader
  • Supporting your teams to adapt and respond to change using vision and alignment
  • Able to mobilise people to identify change resistance and communicate effectively
  • Practice and feedback

Duration

Two days

Cost

$1500 per person

Facilitator

Barry Poppleton

Inclusive leadership

Outline

  • Self awareness of default behaviours and thinking
  • What’s our business case for inclusive leadership?
  • Recognising the diversity of available talent in our teams, organisations and in building the workforce
  • Recognising our defaults and confirmation bias in working with diversity
  • The skills of curiosity and divergent thinking
  • Deep and bias free listening

Duration

Two days

Cost

$1500 per person

Facilitator

Di van Meegen

Leading in a complex environment

Outline

  • Developing a heightened awareness of personal predisposition for handling complexity and uncertainty
  • Practise in deploying strengths to make progress in challenging situations
  • Building a repertoire of techniques for analysing complex leadership challenges
  • Developing a deeper understanding of complexity and ambiguity as current public-sector reality
  • Becoming more adaptive in responding to complexity as leaders
  • Able to gain support from others in order to engage complex contexts
  • Practice and feedback

Duration

Two days

Cost

$1500 per person

Facilitator

Barry Poppleton