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APS 4 Essential Skills Workshop


29th - 30th, April 2025 / Canberra, AU
SAVE UP TO $1000
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OVERVIEW


Your leadership journey starts here

• Enhance your professional competence to achieve results 
• Practical tools to communicate with impact and influence 
• Effective change management principles to support strategic direction 
• Career planning and pathways in APS roles

TRAINER


Mark Butz

Mark’s diverse work experience includes more than 26 years in senior positions in government agencies, complemented by voluntary participation in community sector governance, and since 2002 working as a consultant, facilitator, trainer, and writer. He has been training others in communication, facilitation, leadership, and conflict transformation for more than 25 years, across all States and Territories of Australia, and in New Zealand, India and Nauru.

Leadership Expert & Executive Coach
Futures by Design

AGENDA


Workshop

Understand change management principles

- Improve situational awareness and solution finding

- Support stakeholders and teams through changes 

- Set measurable goals and communicate expectations


Stakeholder management for career success

- Expand influence and understand stakeholder interests and needs 

- Resolve complex enquiries and competing viewpoints

- Strengthen your negotiation skills


Develop resilience for challenging times  

- Practical skills to support yourself and others through difficult circumstances

- Grow strong internal and external networks for advice 

- Maintain your emotional and physical wellbeing


Grow trust, credibility, and build confidence

- Learn to generate trust and actively seek feedback

- Embrace flexibility on the road to success

- Commit to a conscious development path

  • Mark Butz Leadership Expert & Executive Coach Futures by Design

Workshop

Establish personal and professional values

- Identify your core values

- Demonstrate your value to the organisation

- Become a reflective practitioner and lifelong learner


Essential communication skills

- Tailor communication for different audiences and contexts

- Utilise emotional intelligence to communicate with influence

- Build trust and nurture relationships


Increase accountability and positively influence others

- Take ownership of tasks and inspire others with a collaborative approach

- Study conflict resolution techniques and models 

- Build team capacity through performance feedback and coaching


Harness the ability to problem solve and make effective decisions 

- Use flexible thinking styles to find solutions

- Re-frame your thinking to solve problems 

- Develop robust decision-making processes

  • Mark Butz Leadership Expert & Executive Coach Futures by Design

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VENUE


Cliftons Canberra

Level 2, 10 Moore Street, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

02 6122 0999

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