NSW Public Sector Band 1 & 2 High Performance & Leadership Workshop

The challenges of senior leadership

- Leading in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment (VUCA)

- The changing role of executive leadership in the NSW Public Sector

- The seven key skills to thrive as an executive leader

The neuroscience of leadership

- Understand emotions and behaviours in a VUCA environment

- Implications for leadership selection, development, and change management 

- Navigating workplace politics and tackling difficult conversations and situations

Adaptive leadership for NSW Public Sector senior leaders

- Leadership in a (permanent) crisis

- Proactive measures for developing resilience

- Improving executive insight and decision-making

Manage risk in a dynamic landscape

- Understand the difference between uncertainty and risk

- Explore the sources of risk

- Understand and apply critical thinking to make informed decisions 

Strategic decision-making

- A framework for decision-making in a VUCA environment

- Understand, recognise, and manage conflicting stakeholder priorities and departmental politics

- Strategic priority setting

Leading organisational change 

- Understanding the human side of organisational change

- A process for diagnosing and planning change

- Understanding and managing power and politics

Practical change tools

- Framing and communicating change

- Strategies for overcoming resistance to change

- Building a guiding coalition for change

An action plan for enhancing team effectiveness

- Key strategic priorities (30, 60, 90 days)

- Draft implementation actions or initiatives

- Potential obstacles and sources of support