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.
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
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?
- Understanding what leadership means to you
Morning break
Why do you lead? How do you lead? How could you be a better leader?
- Defining yourself as a leader – what are your values? How do they show up?
Unpacking the qualities of self-leadership
- What is emotional intelligence and why does it matter?
- How do you learn and grow as a leader?
- What impact do you have on others as a leader?
Group coaching and learning reflection
Close of day one
MODULE 2 – TRANSFORMING TEAMS
Leading others: Building your team’s capabilities
Setting your team up for success
- How can you apply Lencioni’s critical behaviours for high-performing teams?
- How do you deliberately build trust within your team?
Creating inclusive, diverse, and psychologically safe workplaces
- How do you intentionally create a culture that will support excellence
- Creating psychological safety by valuing diversity, equality, and inclusion
Break
Creating psychological safety by valuing diversity, equality, and inclusion
- What are the conversations that will build 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?
Group coaching and learning reflection
Close of day two
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?
- Knowing yourself influencing preferences and building your capability
Break
Influencing through creating relationships that matter and built on deep 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?
Group coaching and learning reflection
Close of day three
DESIGNING YOUR LEADERSHIP FUTURE
Establish your leadership presence and plan your career strategy trajectory
Define and embody your personal and professional brand
- How do you show up as a leader? How do others see you as a leader?
- How is the world of work shifting and how will that impact you as a leader of the future?
Break
Create a strategic action plan to progress your career – hope is not a career strategy
- What are the habits to avoid that can impact your career progression?
- What do you need to have, know, 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
- Understanding the habits that might get in your way as you progress your career
Group coaching and learning reflection
Close of masterclass
Online masterclass: Links will be provided closer to date of the masterclass
Pricing
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