QLD Public Sector SO-Level 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 QPS

- 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 

- Navigate workplace politics and tackle difficult conversations and situations

Adaptive leadership for QPS senior leaders

- Leadership in a (permanent) crisis

- Proactive measures for developing resilience

- Improve 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 

- Understand the human side of organisational change

- Utilise processes to diagnose and plan change

- Understand and manage power and politics

Practical change tools

- Frame and communicate change

- Overcome resistance to change

- Build 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