APS 4 Essential Skills Workshop
OVERVIEW
• 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
Understand change management principles
- Improve situational awareness and solution finding
- Support stakeholders and teams through changes
- Learn to set measurable goals and communicate expectations clearly
Improve stakeholder management for career success
- Expand influence and better understand stakeholder interests and needs
- Resolve complex enquiries and competing viewpoints
- Strengthen your negotiation skills
Develop resilience to thrive during challenging times
- Practical skills to support yourself and others through difficult circumstances
- Grow strong internal and external networks for advice
- Invest in self-care - Maintain your emotional and physical wellbeing
Key approaches to grow trust, credibility, and build confidence in your abilities
- Trust models - learn to generate trust and actively seek feedback
- Embrace flexibility on the road to success
- Commit to a conscious development path
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Mark Butz Leadership Expert & Executive Coach Futures by Design
Establish your personal and professional values
- Establish your core values at the heart of your professional band
- Learn to demonstrate your value to the organisation
- Become a reflective practitioner and lifelong learner
Essential communication skills
- Learn to tailor communication for different audiences and contexts
- Understand the impact of Emotional Intelligence (EI) to communicate with influence
- Use authenticity, acceptance, and empathy to build trust and nurture relationships
Increase accountability and positively influence others
- Learn to take ownership of tasks and inspire others through 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
- Trust your experience to develop robust decision-making processes
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Mark Butz Leadership Expert & Executive Coach Futures by Design
PRICING
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VENUE
Join us online, from the comfort of your home or office.