NSW Public Sector Grades 7-8 Essential Skills Workshop
8th - 9th, April 2025 / Sydney, AU
OVERVIEW
• 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
TRAINER
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
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
A.M Consultants & Associates
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
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Maree Walk Leadership Expert & FMR NSW Gov Deputy Secretary Storyroad
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Amy Mouafi Leadership Expert & Executive Coach A.M Consultants & Associates
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
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Maree Walk Leadership Expert & FMR NSW Gov Deputy Secretary Storyroad
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Amy Mouafi Leadership Expert & Executive Coach A.M Consultants & Associates
GROUP DISCOUNTS
PRICING
Rapid Action
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SAVE UP TO $1000
Super Saver
Ends January 23
SAVE UP TO $500
Early Bird
Ends March 04
SAVE UP TO $300
VENUE
Cliftons Sydney
Level 13, 60 Margaret St, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
+61 2 9250 0999
