Content
  • Analysing your self-management and time management approaches and techniques.
  • The Pareto Principle – the 80:20 rule.
  • Identifying your strengths and weaknesses.
  • Urgency addiction.
  • Exploring a range of tools and techniques aimed at maximising these skills and developing a personalised action plan to help you take the next step in your development.
Outcomes
  • Gain control of your workload; learn how to handle more with less stress.
  • Analyse and evaluate how you spend your time and your time management skills.
  • Explore effective and ineffective time management practices.
  • Improve decision making, prioritisation, procrastination and time wasting.
Who Should Attend

Any public sector employee who has challenging workloads, who is doing more with less and wants to meet deadlines and manage time effectively.

Benefits to You and Your Organisation

Enhance productivity and reduce the level of stress due to your workload.

Learn about our speakers

Maree Upton

Specialist Facilitator
Pacific People Solutions

Maree has over 15 years experience in facilitation and training across both the public and private sector. She has extensive experience in facilitation, with an emphasis on team development and change management. She also has a strong career coaching practice supporting others with their career direction, choice and management.

Maree’s background in psychology underpinns her strength in maximising group dynamics by using varied facilitation approaches to give programs life and energy while delivering positive outcomes. Maree has focused on developing and delivering workshops on career planning, targeted selection and retention, team development, leadership, performance and change management. She has worked with large private sector businesses delivering workshops nation-wide on performance management, change and team development.

Maree is passionate about supporting others to achieve their best especially in leadership, team work and personal effectiveness.

Upcoming course availability

In person

February 2025

Monday, 24 February 2025

Register now
In person

April 2025

Thursday, 03 April 2025

Register now
In person

April 2025

Tuesday, 29 April 2025

Register now
In person

June 2025

Wednesday, 04 June 2025

Register now

Format
Face-to-face

Duration
1 full-day
9:00am-4:30pm (8:45am registration)

Competency framework
First Line Manager Core (ASO3-ASO5)
Middle Manager Core (ASO5-ASO8)

Inclusions
Workbook, resources, lunch, morning tea and refreshments

Location
12 Pirie Street, Adelaide SA 5000
(please visit registration links for further information)
View map

Costs
Personal Member $575
State Govt Employee Member $615
Corporate Member $625
Non-Member $725

This course can be delivered In-Agency. Contact us to discuss the delivery of this course within your department.

  • “From this course I determined where I was falling short, and where I needed to put my attention. It has left me feeling confident that I can meet the challenges in my workplace and my workload with renewed energy.”

    DCP

  • “This course went beyond my expectations.”

    SA Health

  • “I have already put what I learned into practice before I came to work this morning, and as soon a I got to work I shared with my colleagues.”

    DPC

You might also be interested in

Private: Confidence…The Key To Success

Confidence is the key to success in many areas of work and life.  Explore how you can look and sound confident and influence others positively by presenting a confident and professional image and speaking confidently.  Learn about the positive psychology approach to being more confident and why developing optimism and utilising your strengths will help you gain confidence, increase your self-belief and reduce stress in the workplace and beyond.

  • 1 half day
  • Emerging Leader, Graduate/Student, Manager/Next-Exec, YIPAA
Read more

Introduction to Supervision and Management

This course is designed to give you an introduction to your new world of supervision and management and also to provide you with foundational models and approaches to supervision and management.

  • 1 full day
  • Emerging Leader, Graduate/Student
Read more

Managing Your Project: An Introduction to Project Management

Develop the practical skills, tools and knowledge needed for planning, controlling and contributing to projects within your own organisation and beyond.

  • 1 full day
  • Emerging Leader, Graduate/Student, Manager/Next-Exec, YIPAA
Read more

Write Clearly & Concisely (Online)

This half-day course gives you the tools to write more succinctly and effectively within your role in the public sector. Gain more confidence in your writing abilities to produce concise, high-quality and formal written materials. Learn practical techniques you can practice and apply within your own agency or department.

  • 1 half day
  • Affiliate, Emerging Leader, Graduate/Student, Manager/Next-Exec, Professional, YIPAA
Read more