APS 5-6 High Performance & Leadership Workshop

Understand your personal leadership values

- Identify your core values and goals as a leader

- Leadership styles and how they impact you 

- Shape your leadership brand

Emotional Intelligence (EI) in the workplace 

- Evaluate your EI level and identify opportunities for further growth and leadership development

- Understand individual strengths and how to optimise EI in leading teams 

- Embrace qualities of empathy and understand to become a better leader 

Tools to manage and lead productive teams

- Understand the shift between technical management and people leadership

- Leverage your leadership skills to better motivate and engage your team

- Build team capacity through coach and performance feedback

Effective and practical decision making in complex environments

- Strategies to build team decision-making capabilities 

- Draw on your experience, knowledge and judgement to make better decisions

- Deal with complex issues - making the ‘right’ decision

Successful change and strategic management strategies 

- Set achievable, manageable and measurable goals 

- Problem-identification and problem-solving strategies 

- Support and influence stakeholders through change 

Develop resilience to thrive in times of change

- Effectively manage change and uncertainty in the workplace

- Identify and monitor changes that impact your work environment

- Support your team, organisation and stakeholders through change

Stakeholder engagement and management

- Manage stakeholder relationships to achieve agency goals

- Identify and meet stakeholder needs and expectations

- Maintain strong internal and external networks

Key approaches for APS leaders to implement personal strategies back in the workplace

- Be an authentic leader and communicator

- Embrace resilience and flexibility as key leadership skills

- Plan and commit to actions that will lead to success