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About the workshop

In today's rapidly changing public sector landscape, achieving high performance and promoting accountability and transparency are crucial goals. As a leader in the Queensland Public Sector, you play a vital role in shaping the direction of programs, policies, and compliance. You are responsible for ensuring integrity in decision making and planning processes.

To succeed in this challenging environment, it is essential to enhance your leadership capabilities and effectively engage internal and external stakeholders. Join our intensive masterclass designed for senior executive leaders like you. Gain the necessary skills and practices to excel at the executive level, including strategic leadership, navigating complex politics, stakeholder management, and achieving success in your SO-level role.

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QLD Public Sector SO-Level High Performance & Leadership Workshop
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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 

- Navigating workplace politics and tackling difficult conversations and situations

 

Adaptive leadership for QPS senior leaders

- Leadership in a (permanent) crisis

- Proactive measures for developing resilience

- Improving 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 

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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 

- Understanding the human side of organisational change

- A process for diagnosing and planning change

- Understanding and managing power and politics

 

Practical change tools

- Framing and communicating change

- Strategies for overcoming resistance to change

- Building 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

Tailor Your Training Experience

To make sure you get the learning solution that’s right for you, we offer different levels of tailoring to suit your needs. Choose from three levels of customisation:

1.Off the Shelf

Love what you see? Great! Choose this option to take one of our most popular courses and bring it in-house for your team. Includes a pre-course consult session with our facilitator to make sure we hit the mark, and deliver the right learning experience for you.

2.Customised

Make sure you get the most from the course you choose, by tailoring the content to get the right fit for you. Speak to our team, who will work with you to pick and mix from a curated bank of training modules to help customise your learning experience.

3.Premium

Not on the list? Let us know what you’re looking for and we will find the right solution. Our team of learning specialists will work with you to develop a unique training course for your business. Through an in-depth consultation process, we will work with you to profile your learning needs and build a bespoke program from the ground up.

Speak with one of our team today to find which option is right for you.

Who Will Attend

SO and AO8 banded senior Management from QLD Government including:

- Directors / Assistant Directors
- Senior Line Managers

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