QLD Public Sector AO 7-8 High Performance & Leadership Workshop

Understand your strengths and values as an AO 7-8 leader

- Key tasks of adaptive leadership

- Define your personal leadership brand

- Align your leadership strengths with the expectations of your organisation

 Utilise Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to motivate and influence your team and stakeholders

- Use your EQ to focus attention

- Utilise heightened EQ to make effective strategic decisions

- Adapt your leadership style to effectively manage different personalities

Build resilience when working under pressure

- Acting vs reacting upon unexpected developments

- Anticipate and manage risk effectively

- Utilise feedback to improve service delivery and organisational capability

Understand the shift from micro to macro leadership

- Adopt a planned and comprehensive approach to implement organisational change

- Develop and influence key strategic directions

- Collaborate and develop joint solutions with external stakeholders

Key stakeholder relationship management and communication 

- Engage and manage stakeholder expectations during change

- Authoritatively represent and influence on behalf of your agency

- Collaborate and develop joint solutions with external stakeholders

- Recognise links between interconnected issues, identify problems and work ways to resolve them

Build team capability and accountability

- Cultivate your team to take ownership of their success

- Build reliability and accountability in your team

- Successfully align your teams with broader agency strategy and goals

- Develop your team’s resilience to stress and change

Manage team dynamics in complex environments

- Co-create high performance - Establish a culture of peak performance

- Override emotional responses to stressful situations

- Authoritatively represent and influence on behalf of your agency

- Ambiguity tolerance and skills for managing uncertainty

Core approaches for AO 7-8 leaders to advance as an executive leader

- Create an action plan for your career

- Understand the leadership pipeline

- Prepare yourself for executive responsibilities

- Manage transition and identify future leadership priorities