Victorian Public Service: Management Essentials Workshop

Redefine your success - New competencies and capabilities

- Strategies to effectively step up and build your leadership skills beyond technical competency

- Modern leadership theory - explore different leadership styles

- Leadership techniques - build your personal and organisational resilience

Expand your Emotional Intelligence (EQ) 

- Evaluate your EQ level and identify opportunities for further growth

- Understand your EQ and its impact on personal and team performance

- Recognise and respond appropriately to unproductive stress patterns

Increase your social and relational awareness

- Empathy as a skillset you need to learn, and how it changes the way you lead 

- Increase your organisational awareness – understanding the drivers of senior executive levels

- Strategic engagement - what are the key networks, cultures and policies and why you need to know 

Create your personal plan to lead for results

- Action plan to apply your learning in the workplace

- Individual reflection and planning to take the next step

- Design your leadership brand

- Identify your future leadership opportunities

Predict your critical path - Projecting future outcomes

- Strategic advice, problem-solving and issues management

- Achieve outcomes by proactively managing conflict

- Utilise set-backs and failures as a catalyst for new strategies and behaviours 

Managing up - Improve your influencing skills

- Understand the interest and influence of Executives

- Engage and manage stakeholders expectations 

- Effectively code-switch to influence and achieve buy-in from senior leaders

Communicate with confidence and power to drive performance 

- Identify your own communication style and learn how to work with differing communication styles

- Learn a coaching approach to managing and leading

- Mentoring and reverse-mentoring as professional development and a career development strategy 

Turn insights into actions

- Identify your goals and become an outcomes-oriented leader

- Understand when and how to seek support 

- Brainstorm issues and strategies to address challenges