EL1-EL2 Leadership, Capability & Professional Excellence
Optimise your leadership for more senior and complex executive roles
Practical, engaging and hands-on, this comprehensive masterclass will optimise your professional performance and prepare you for the next stage of your career.
Specifically designed for EL1 & EL2 level roles and built around the core capabilities set out by the APSC, you will gain key tools to thrive as a senior public sector leader and to tackle your career with drive and resilience.
A proverbial ‘one-stop shop’ for professional and leadership development, this program has been thoughtfully designed to optimise your learning experience around your work week. You will leave feeling inspired, reenergized, and confident about your leadership and the path ahead.
Key benefits
Deepen your understanding of the capabilities and behaviours required to excel at EL1-EL2 level
Effectively support your teams career development, performance management and understand behavioural expectations
Lead with empathy, trust, compassion & impact
Test your leadership principles & understand the challenges of values-based leadership
See beyond your current leadership blind spots
Daniel Murray
Founder & Director, Empathic Consulting
Daniel Murray is Australia’s leading expert on Strategic Empathy. Blending the worlds of business strategy, leadership and emotional intelligence to support business and community leaders to drive high performance by creating more motivated and empowered teams. Daniel shows business leaders how to foster organisational understanding, build deep trusted relationships and create a culture of commitment through mastery of empathy as a capability.
Daniel Murray
After a career in corporate strategy and management consulting within Australia’s largest Financial Services organisations, Daniel Murray (BSc, MBA) now helps businesses and leaders to drive performance through people, culture and empathy. Blending his background in analytics, mathematics and strategy, with a deep understanding of psychology, neuroscience and behavioural economics, Daniel has become an expert in building the capabilities, tools and strategies to embed strategic empathy.
As CEO of Empathic Consulting, Daniel has provided keynotes and training to companies such as PwC, Commonwealth Bank, Tyro, BHP, AIA, Swiss Re as well as government organisations such as ASIC, NSW Treasury and ICare. His ability to engage and entertain leaves his clients invigorated to strive for deeper levels of understanding and performance. His practical tools and ability to provide specific and relevant answers to challenging questions makes him a trusted advisor to everyone he works with.
Who will attend?
Aspiring, emerging and existing leaders across the Australian Public Sector, in EL1 and EL2 roles such as:
- Director
- Senior/ Regional/ General Manager
- Superintendent or Senior Program Manager
- Coordinator or Inspector
- Senior Advisor / Adviser
- Senior Project Officer, Senior Policy Officer/ Manager
- Manager
- Specialists
Agenda
Times are in AEST
Module One – Creating Clarity
Acknowledgement of Country & welcoming remarks
Introductions & framing of the day
The culture of high performing teams
- How rigidity creates destructive cultures
- Stepping up & into executive leadership
- Building trust, understanding and curiosity
Leadership is the art of empowering people
- Crossing the valley of apathy
- Stop getting people on the bus
- Building conviction and commitment
Morning break
Leadership values & commitments
- Understanding your leadership values
- Developing personal commitments
- Closing the deadly gap of leadership
Testing your leadership principles
- Small group work to stress test principles in different scenarios
- Group discussions around the challenges of values-based leadership
Building resilience in your people
- What your people fear more than change
- Understanding the confidence matrix
- Creating a resilient culture
Lunch break
Key takeaways from Module One
Module Two – Leading with Empathy & Trust
Setting our leadership intention
- The Have – Be – Do model
- Your attitude shapes your actions
- Casting your leadership shadow
The importance of emotions in leadership
- The elephant inside our heads
- Emotion and the impact on decision making
- Good leaders build teams, great leaders build leaders
Short break
Understanding mental models
- The heuristics that guide us
- The nature and danger of assumptions
- Exploring the ‘Curious Leadership Model
Close of Module Two
Reflections/observations from Day One
Power of perspective-taking
- Seeing the world behind our blind-spots
- The ‘Perspective Taking Tool’
- Exploring extreme perspectives
The power of leading with empathy
- Empathy drives trust and commitment
- The ‘Empathy Process’
- Examples of leading with empathy
Morning break
Key takeaways from Module Two
- Summary of key points
- Participant reflections and actions
Module Three – Embedding Leadership Culture
Communicating & presenting with impact
- Understanding your audience
- How to grab and hold attention
- Building a powerful presentation
Lunch break
Motivating your team
- Building high-performing teams
- The ‘Motivation Ladder’
- Your role in managing up and across
Giving & receiving hard feedback
- Focusing on behaviours not results
Key takeaways from Module Three
- Summary of key points
- Participant reflections and actions
- Commitments for return to work
Close of Masterclass
Location:Â Hyatt Hotel Canberra | 120 Commonwealth Ave, Canberra, ACT, 2600
Benefits of attending in-person:Â This is the perfect networking opportunity for leaders, in an environment that will set you up to build new connections and a support network of like-minded peers!
Food & catering requirements:Â Catering is provided at all in-person The Hatchery events. Dietary requirements and special needs are to be communicated to event organisers one week prior to the event commencing. Please identify yourself to The Hatchery staff upon arrival to ensure all your needs are met.
Dress code:Â The event dress code is Business casual.
Pricing
Early bird savings available until 5 July
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Early bird pricing
Save $700
Group Discounts
5-9 delegates save 10%
10+ delegates save 20%
Early bird savings available until 19 July
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Early bird pricing
Save $400
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5-9 delegates save 10%
10+ delegates save 20%
Early bird savings available until 16 August
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Early bird pricing
Save $200
Group Discounts
5-9 delegates save 10%
10+ delegates save 20%
Standard price
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Group Discounts
5-9 delegates save 10%
10+ delegates save 20%
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