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NSW Public Sector Grades 7-8 Essential Skills Workshop


8th - 9th, April 2025 / Sydney, AU
SAVE UP TO $500
Discount ends in 28 days

OVERVIEW


Kick-start your leadership journey

• Skills and capabilities of a confident and successful NSW Public Sector professional
• Flexible thinking practices for effective decision making
• Effective change management principles and practices
• Career planning and pathways in Grades 7-8 roles and beyond

TRAINERS


Amy Mouafi

A natural leader with a strong background in driving multiple departments and teams, delivering major complex projects and initiatives within state government, including the NSW Police Force and not for profit sector. Amy continues to deliver in the public service as well as through her own Consultancy. Amy has a demonstrated track record in delivering effective strategic oversight as well as sustainable change and operational effectiveness, offering an insightful, professional and effective outcome focused approach while enhancing performance and delivery. Amy’s experience includes specialising in violent crimes victimology and offender psychology, emergency management policy and operations as well as intervention, prevention, mitigation and resilience initiatives that demonstrate strategy to operations, policy to programs and outputs to outcomes.

Leadership Expert & Executive Coach
Department of Regional NSW

Maree Walk

Maree Walk is a highly sought-after leadership specialist with over 30 years’ experience working with executives from government and non-government organisations. She has previously held significant roles as the Deputy Secretary for Programs and Service Design in the NSW Department of Family and Community Services and Chief Executive of Community Services. She is currently the CEO of ACWA, Board Director of City West Housing and the Parenting Research Centre, and Member of the Australian Institute Company Directors. 

Leadership Expert & FMR NSW Gov Deputy Secretary
Storyroad

AGENDA


Workshop

Establish your personal and professional values

- Assess the skills, capabilities and attributes of an effective leader

- 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

 

Coaching, supervising and managing relationships - the importance of Emotional Intelligence (EI)

- Understand the impact of EI on your performance 

- Use authenticity, acceptance and empathy to build trust

- Create and sustain relationships at all levels in the organisation

- Identify opportunities to develop your EI and the EI of others

 

Increase accountability and positively influence others

- Enhance team cohesion, engagement and motivation

- Make a business case - provide sound advice and recommendations 

- 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

- Balance independent and group decision-making efforts

  • Amy Mouafi Leadership Expert & Executive Coach A.M Consultants & Associates

  • Maree Walk Leadership Expert & FMR NSW Gov Deputy Secretary Storyroad

Workshop

Understand change management principles

- Develop new styles for managing transformation and change 

- 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

- Form and maintain stronger stakeholder relationships

 

Develop resilience in times of uncertainty  

- Support others through challenging times 

- Grow strong internal and external networks for advice 

- Develop strength through diversity of thought

- 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 the quick and slow method

- Be courageous - trust yourself to perform 

- Embrace flexibility on the road to success

- Commit to a conscious development path

  • Amy Mouafi Leadership Expert & Executive Coach A.M Consultants & Associates

  • Maree Walk Leadership Expert & FMR NSW Gov Deputy Secretary Storyroad

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Cliftons Sydney

Level 13, 60 Margaret St, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia

+61 2 9250 0999

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