EL1-2 Women in Leadership
Gain the skills to take on more senior and complex roles
Specifically designed for EL 1-2 level officers and management, this highly interactive, Masterclass will equip you with the tools and strategies to lead with greater impact and confidently take on more senior and complex roles in the public sector.
Learn how to overcome the common internal and external barriers to success faced by women in the workplace, enhance and refine your current leadership skills, and develop new capabilities to take the next step in your career. Set a career plan, seize progression opportunities, and learn how to purposefully lead yourself, your team, and your organization into the workplace of the future.
This interactive course is cognizant of the APS Work Level Standards (WLS) for EL1-EL2 and is designed to reflect and align with the expectations of these roles. It will support and enhance the capabilities and behaviours required of EL1-EL2 level roles as per the APS Integrated Leadership System (ILS) essential for high performance.
Key benefits
Define your leadership identity – who you are as a leader, your purpose, your values, and your brand
Understand and own your leadership journey so you can intentionally plan your career progression
Understand your team’s capabilities and improve their collaboration and performance through strengths-based leadership
Develop the skills to communicate with presence and authenticity
Build your influencing capabilities as you lead at your level and up
Become an enterprise-wide leader with the skills to lead change and transformation
Kathryn Thomas
Director, KT & Associates
With a global career of more than 20 years as a Management Consultant and Global learning Leader, Kathryn 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 focussing on people and performance both within Government and Private Sector. She is an accredited Executive Coach who has a passion for supporting women in leadership to thrive.
Kathryn Thomas
With a global career of more than 20 years as a Management Consultant and Global learning Leader, Kathryn 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 focussing on people and performance both within Government and Private Sector. She is an accredited Executive Coach who has a passion for supporting women in leadership to thrive.
Who will attend?
Aspiring, emerging, and existing female leaders across the Australian Public Sector, in EL1 and EL2 roles.
Agenda
Fine-tune your values and align them to your organisation’s, strengthen your emotional intelligence, communicate with greater influence and develop the key skills for leaders in the upper ranks of the APS
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MODULE 1 – TRANSFORMING YOURSELF
Self-leadership: Knowing yourself and understanding your leadership identity
Acknowledgement of Country
Masterclass overview, context setting, building relationships & supporting a safe learning environment
- Who are we?
- How will we best learn together?
- Sharing leadership challenges
Why do you lead & how do you lead?
- Defining your leadership identity
- Understanding what leadership means to you
- Becoming the leader that you wish you had
- What got you here won’t get you there
Morning break
Unpacking the qualities of self-leadership
- What is emotional intelligence and why does it matter
- How do you continuously learn and grow as a leader?
- What impact do you have on others as a leader?
- How can you foster followership?
Share current leadership challenges – group coaching
Learning reflection
Lunch
MODULE 2 – TRANSFORMING TEAMS
Leading others: Building your team’s capabilities
Setting your team up for success
- What are the critical behaviours of high-performing teams?
- How do you deliberately build trust within your team
Creating inclusive, diverse & psychologically safe workplaces
- Creating inclusive, diverse & psychologically safe workplaces
- Creating psychological safety by valuing diversity, equality, and inclusion
Afternoon break
Inspiring people through essential conversations
- What builds success within your teams?
Moving from performance management to performance development
- As a leader how do you inspire growth through focusing on strengths?
- How do you create a culture that inspires learning?
- Guide, mentor, and develop your team
Share current leadership challenges – group coaching
Learning reflection
Close of Day One
MODULE 3 – LEADING FOR THE FUTURE
Leading and transforming: Influencing change across your agency
Making the transition from managing to leading across your agency
- Are you a manager or a leader?
- From managing to leading – what are the shifts you need to make?
- How can you build your influence across your agency?
Enlisting and mobilising others to influence change
- How do you influence without authority?
- What are the critical factors that will drive change and transformation?
Morning break
Influencing through creating relationships that matter built on deep trust
- What are the behaviours that build trust?
- Assess the quality of the relationships that matter most and impact your ability to influence across your agency
- How will you deliberately and intentionally shift the relationships that matter?
Share current leadership challenges – group coaching
Learning reflection
Lunch
MODULE 4 – DESIGNING YOUR LEADERSHIP FUTURE
What is your career strategy?
Stepping up from EL1-2
- What got you here won’t get you there
- Strategically planning your capability development aligned with the EL2 skills profile
Define and embody your personal & professional brand
- How do you show up as a leader? How do others see you as a leader?
- The world of work shifting: how will that impact you as a leader of the future?
Afternoon break
Create a strategic action plan to progress your career
- What are the habits to avoid that can impact your career progression?
- What do you need to have, to know, to be, and do to progress your career?
- What are the barriers and enablers you need to manage to progress your career?
Create robust support networks to foster success
- Why you need a personal board of directors and how to create one
- How can you help other women rise?
Share current leadership challenges – group coaching
Learning reflection
Close of Masterclass
Hyatt Hotel Canberra
120 Commonwealth Ave
Yarralumla
ACT, 2600
Pricing
Early bird savings until 15 March
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