Management responsibilities at APS 6 and EL1 banded levels
- Understand your responsibilities as a manager and people leader
- Explore the importance (and challenges) of managing performance in a Public Sector context
- Agility, risk aversion and organisational expectation in the Australian Public Service
- Understanding and contextualising employee engagement, and your role as a manager
Understanding the risk of employee disengagement (and what it looks like)
- Engaging with risk and managing the consequences
- Explore what disengagement looks like in your department or team
- Appropriate conduct for risk assessment and risk management activities
- Apply performance management practices that reflect best practice APS performance management models
How to effectively engage with your team
- Understand value drivers for each team member, and tailor your conversations
- Clarify performance objectives, outcomes, behaviours and values, and formulate links with broader business plans
- Navigate the initial challenges of difficult conversations
- Explore coaching strategies to build capability in a team environment
Providing proactive and effective performance feedback
- Tackle underperformance with the right language, reframing and consistency
- Understand the conversation around the conversation
- Ensure performance conversations flow both ways
- Learn to listen effectively, and become open to 180ᐤ feedback
- Reinforce support with consistent feedback