Emerging Executive Development Series – A Pathway To SAES

Course content

Session 1 – Building a Constructive Culture

Gain the tools to understand the current strengths and weaknesses of your workplace culture. You will also explore how to determine and define the desired future culture and then shape a plan to build a constructive culture that aids the goals of the organisation, as well as one that engages and motivates employees.

Session 2 – Responding to Turbulence

Gain the skills to look at the factors that are buffeting our departments and agencies and how we can respond effectively, as well as ways we can foster resilience in our colleagues. Explore forecasting and preparing for the future, understanding turbulence, managing responses to change and building understanding and resilience. Leave the day with tools and techniques to equip yourself and your co-workers with the skills and mindset to respond to most changes and future challenges.

Session 3 – Team Power

Explore the practical and straightforward techniques that you can apply in order to knit a group of people into an engaged and united team using tried and proven methods from Katzenbach and Smith, Tuckman, Collins and West.

Session 4 – Doing More With Less

Learn a series of ‘counterpoints’ to challenge the accepted thinking across a range of workplace issues from leadership, to staff training and even how we recruit and employ staff. Explore a range of alternate paradigms and in the process, polish your skills in innovation and creativity.

Session 5 – Emotional Intelligence and Beyond

Explore the key components of Emotional Intelligence (EQ/EI) and how it can be developed and enhanced. In addition, explore some of the associated myths and how we can create a positive EQ/EI workplace.

Session 6 – Understanding Lean Thinking

Introduce yourself to the core elements of ‘Lean Thinking’ and explore its application within your agency. At the conclusion of this course, you will have a series of practical actions you can directly apply when you return to work.

Session 7 – Positive Influencing Skills

Go beyond merely the assembly of facts and figures to explore how your communication and presentation style can ‘positively influence’ others. It will help you in dealing with staff, managing up, facilitating change and working with stakeholders.

Session 8 – Adaptive Leadership

Look at the key approaches to leadership that are currently being applied within government as well as ‘Adaptive Leadership’. Learn how Adaptive Leadership goes beyond the core set of leadership skills to place great emphasis on remaining flexible whilst responding positively to times of pressure and change.

On completion of this series, you will receive a certificate of participation, signed by IPAA SA President and Commissioner for Public Sector Employment, Erma Ranieri, for your CV.