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This module provides definitions and explanations of key data terms and concepts. It also explores how the APS uses data and why data skills are so important.
This module will help participants apply effective research skills and techniques. it covers framing research questions, locating and evaluating information and forming conclusions.
This module will help participants engage with statistical information. It will build an understanding of key terms and concepts, perform basic calculations and interpret and present statistics correctly.
This module will help participants present data visually in a way that is clear, accurate and accessible. It includes tables, charts, graphs and diagrams.
This module will increase participants ability to provide sound logical advice supported by credible evidence.
This course provides the participant with an understanding of data’s role within government.
The Foundations of Net Zero Emissions Reporting course is intended to enhance understanding of the reporting requirements under the Climate Action in Government Operations.
Debriefing is the process of providing feedback to tenderers after a procurement activity. Debriefing can enhance supplier relationships, promote transparency and accountability, and foster learning and improvement.
This is an intensive course exploring change at the personal and organisational level. Understand concepts of resilience and develop techniques to be adaptable and responsive. Share thoughts and ideas on dealing with change with others.
This course covers the processes for writing reports that adhere to the Commonwealth writing style. Learn to produce documents that have clear scope, are organised and interpret information well.
This course has been developed to help you understand what modern slavery is, and what you and your agency can do to practice ethical procurement practices and address modern slavery risks in government operations and supply chains.
Learn the essential skill of making good administrative decisions that are consistent with legal and policy frameworks is an essential skill. Examine legal authorities, case studies and how to review decisions.
Appearing before parliamentary committees takes an in-depth look at parliamentary committees that scrutinise decisions and the information flow between the APS, the parliament and the public. This program will help you to prepare effectively and communicate information clearly.
This eLearning module strengthens your understanding of the importance of acting with integrity as an APS employee. It provides a foundation for navigating integrity issues for new APS employees in the public service.
In this course you will be introduced to the key principles and obligations associated with records management in the Australian Public Service.
The NACC is an independent body responsible for detecting, investigating and preventing serious and systemic corruption in the Commonwealth public sector.
This eLearning provides a quick and simple introduction to the National Anti-Corruption Commission to help participants understand key functions and purposes of the NACC.
The ATO ‘Villain Academy’ interactive video game, is an exciting ‘choose your own adventure’ style integrity initiative that places you in the shoes of the villain.
This learning offering provides a clear, consistent understanding of how AI works and what to consider when making responsible choices.
The SES Integrity Masterclass is aimed at providing SES leaders with access to current thinking and practical applications towards embedding pro-integrity culture across the APS.
The Senior Executive Stewardship program supports leaders to work together to drive stewardship and initiatives in a complex, challenging and dynamic public service environment, experiencing advances in technology, societal and geopolitical volatility and the changing expectations of our citizens.
This course is a high-level overview of the procurement framework as it relates to non-SES delegates. It expands on the roles and responsibilities of non-SES delegates when making decisions and approving procurement activities.
This learning experience provides practical strategies to help you develop policy and programs that consider the impact in relation to First Nations peoples.
The program strengthens the leadership capability of experienced senior executives to effectively deliver their key accountabilities.
This course strengthens the leadership capability of senior executives to effectively perform the expected range of high-level responsibilities.
Designed for newly promoted or long term acting SES from within the APS, and newly recruited SES from outside the APS.
The Empowering Conversations program is designed to build on existing leadership capabilities to support EL 2 staff conversations across a range of relevant contexts.
Designed for all newly promoted SES Band 1s and external SES recruits to provide a foundation that can be built on in the more detailed SES Orientation program. Recommended to be completed within your first 1-2 months.
The Net Zero Energy course is intended to further develop concepts outlined in the Net Zero Energy chapter of the Net Zero in Government Operations (NZGO) Strategy.
During the course we will discuss what diversity and inclusion means in the APS, identify the legislation and policies you need to be aware of and consider how the APS demonstrates its commitment to diversity and inclusion.
In this module, you’ll learn the essentials for working away from the office, including key guidance for both managers and staff.
APS Leadership Edge is a cohort-based social learning program which will enable EL 2's to develop their leadership and management skills through a range of learning sprints and activities.
The Introduction to Comcover eLearning course provides you with a foundational understanding of Comcover and its role in supporting Australian Government entities.
This eLearning is an introduction to the model for Great Policy Advice. It defines the four pillars of delivering great policy advice and includes video real-world examples.
In this module, participants will apply workforce planning to determine crucial capabilities and understand the organisational culture required to meet future business needs.
This e-learning aims to deepen the understanding and skills of participants in a range of core regulation knowledge and concepts.
This e-learning module describes strategies used for digital preservation in Australian Government agencies.
The Australian Government is committed to building a stronger, more prosperous and resilient economy where Australian businesses can be competitive on a domestic and international level. In this course you will learn about the range of measures that are in place to promote domestic economic growth through procurement.
This course introduces the Circular Economy in the context of the Australian Government and Environmentally Sustainability Procurement as a lever to achieving environmental outcomes through procurement.
This course teaches you how the Commonwealth Procurement Rules relate to environmentally sustainable procurement and the different factors to consider when procuring on behalf of the Australian government.
This course provides you with the information and skills required to plan for environmentally sustainable procurement, including the actions that need to be taken to achieve environmental outcomes in your procurement and contract.
This course is designed for those who produce documents involving analysis or evidence-based argument. It is suitable for all APS and executive levels who need to improve their analytical writing.
APS Leadership Edge Community is a social learning program which will enable EL 2's to develop their leadership and management skills through a range of resources, communities and activities.
Liaising with Comcover equips officials with knowledge to provide effective risk management advice and support in their entities.
The Introduction to Commonwealth Climate Disclosure training course is intended to promote a greater understanding of the Commonwealth Climate Disclosure initiative and climate risk management more broadly.
This course is designed to support you to build your interpersonal and self-care skills to foster positive human-to-human interactions that promote connection and understanding.
The primary purpose of the IPP is to stimulate Indigenous entrepreneurship, business and economic development.
The Net Zero Buildings course is intended to build on concepts outlined in the Buildings Chapter of the Net Zero in Government Operations (NZGO) Strategy. It introduces buildings terminology and the tools and actions to meet the NZGO Strategy targets.
This micro-bite explores the importance of fostering a culture that actively engages with risk, outlining what this looks like and key considerations for overcoming risk aversion within an entity.
This course provides key elements for risk managers to learn key elements of risk management processes to focus on and implement in a crisis and to navigate the uncertainties of the future.
This course is designed for Commonwealth officials whose role requires them to engage with and apply their entity’s risk management framework to successfully deliver outcomes.
The course provides a foundation for understanding risk and its management in the Commonwealth. It introduces risk management principles and the Commonwealth Risk Management Policy.
Changes in our operating environment may impact risk appetite. This learning experience shares key considerations in understanding planning and managing your future and current activities in a changed environment.
This course will help to better understand indemnities and how to reduce likelihood and consequence of the risks that they present.
This course explores the importance of reflecting on the resilience of our organisations and learning from our response to the COVID-19 pandemic early on while the experience is fresh.
This workshop provides practical training for managers on how to effectively lead remote and hybrid teams in the Australian Public Service (APS). Participants will develop leadership skills, explore best practices for remote team management, and address common challenges such as communication, accountability, team culture, and well-being.
This course is designed for Commonwealth officials whose role requires them to engage with and apply their entity’s risk management framework to successfully deliver outcomes.
This learning experience aligns with APS officers who are required to design, implement and embed an entity’s risk management framework.
This course is for senior executive service officials (SES) whose role requires them to identify and determine the acceptable levels of risk that are appropriate to their agency’s profile, allocate resources and lead the adoption of risk management policies, strategies and best practices.
Knowledge and practices relating to delivering effective evaluation outcomes. An essential course for anyone who will be required to sit on an evaluation panel. This course provides a set of tools and techniques to manage sourcing events and their evaluation in a manner that is efficient, accountable and delivers the right outcomes. It includes an overview of the end-to-end evaluation process, including evaluation criteria and scoring methods.
This four-part workshop series, consisting of two themes, offers SES leaders a deep dive into unconscious bias for organisational change. Supported by follow-up workshops, SES leaders can share personal reflections and action plans.
The APS Leadership Capability Connect aims to develop and strengthen ongoing relationships and partnerships with stakeholders who play crucial roles in promoting, supporting and managing leadership development opportunities.
This course outlines how government funds are under constant scrutiny and uses real examples to demonstrate instances of poor management and decision-making by APS in the Procurement Lifecycle.
APS Unlocked brings together new and returning members of the APS to engage with experienced APS leaders and practitioners, who will share essential information and tips for a successful and productive career in the APS.
Essential techniques and tools to get work done effectively; avoiding methodologies, jargon and unnecessary steps. Practical activities relating to your work or case studies and exercises.
Team development and the value of teams in the workplace are explored in-depth. Examine how specific team roles add to team effectiveness and examine your team role preferences.
The program focuses on developing APS Change Management capability to build the capacity for government to deliver well considered and well-planned change.
This module explores organisational design and job design in the context of workforce planning. Participants will also explore smarter and different ways of working due to external change and disruption.
This course is designed to help Improve partnerships with ministers by uplifting the capability of APS staff to engage with ministers and their advisors.
This course includes management of the resulting contract to deliver value for money outcomes.
This course should ignite your awareness about how our work and actions contribute to climate change and what it means for you and how it affects your work.
This course introduces the essentials of contract management, including the roles, tools, techniques, and methods contract managers use to add value. Participants examine key aspects of managing contracts and obtaining better performance and relationships with contractors and suppliers.
Thrive@work – In today’s fast paced world, maintaining a healthy work-life balance and optimising productivity can be challenging.
Procurement and Contract Management Basics aims to provide APS employees with an introduction to Commonwealth procurement and fundamental knowledge and skills essential for contract management.
The Procurement-connected Policies course provides APS officials with a basic understanding of procurement connected policies (PCPs) and their use in the procurement lifecycle.
This course provides APS officials with information necessary for applying CPR Exemptions and Conditions for Limited Tender.
Compassionate Foundations is designed to support you to build your interpersonal and self-care skills to foster positive human-to-human interactions that promote connection and understanding.
Connections is a key step in your workplace peer support journey, providing you with foundational knowledge and skills for the role.
This course advances procurement capability across the APS; to deliver value for money outcomes from Commonwealth procurement activities; and ensure APS officials understand and acquit their obligations in line with Commonwealth procurement requirements.
This is a hands-on practical course. Participants use case studies and scenario-based simulations to plan and conduct procurement from phase 1 to 3 of the Procurement Lifecycle.
This program introduces the principles, tools and techniques of Human Centred Design and how to apply them to service/policy design and implementation.
Takes an in-depth look at decision-making and the skills required to design, develop and deliver a briefing across a range of scenarios. Learn effective briefing techniques and workshop approaches.
Understand how to create and maintain high-performing teams where work is aligned with government priorities. Learn how to analyse and describe high-performing teams, identify the enablers and barriers, and explain the management practices required.
Identify and examine internal and external work relationships, their relevance and the importance of achieving mutual success. Share and develop good ways to plan for and participate in meetings.
The course introduces participants to coaching conversations and the manager-as-coach model.
This course is designed to improve the way APS employees coach and manage others so they can deliver improved outcomes, ultimately resulting in higher APS productivity.
This course teaches the skills to respond to workplace and organisational conflict. This practical skills-based program explores the causes of workplace conflict, ways to identify and address the early signs, tools to reduce anxiety and talk skilfully about difficult issues and behaviours in a professional and resilient manner.
This program teaches the skills to respond to workplace and organisational conflict as a manager, including the tools to coach and support others.
This course is aimed at employees seeking to understand the key processes and considerations for preparing a New Policy Proposal.
Understand the project management process and tools for implementation and evaluation. This includes project planning, resource identification, implementation, deliverables and milestones, risk assessment, stakeholder management and governance.
Interactive course on editing and proofing written text. It includes writing skills, editing and proofing methods. You will be able to enhance documents for correctness and clarity.
This program helps to identify the benefits of working effectively with stakeholders. Understand the most appropriate stakeholders and the most appropriate form of engagement.
This program educates Australian Public Service (APS) staff on the SFIA framework and how agencies can use it. It is designed as a series of information sessions.
Take an in-depth look at shaping strategy with a sense of purpose and direction, using information and opportunities, showing judgement and common sense. Use environmental scanning and best practice models and tools to help anticipate the consequences and trade-offs of actions.
Understand strategy processes and language. Learn methods and models while discussing and sharing professional experiences, thought practices and operating strategically in the APS.
Refresh yourself on the role of the APS, the underpinning processes of the Australian system of Government and its roles,responsibilities and systems.
The program, delivered across four modules, focuses on four key topics to build foundational strategic workforce planning capability across the APS.
This course outlines the knowledge, tools and techniques required to lead projects and teams at the executive level.
This program will increase the confidence of managers in using formal authority to achieve business outcomes. It includes a series of workplace simulations and role plays.
This eLearning module explores the APS model of Performance management.
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