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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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 program helps to identify the benefits of working effectively with stakeholders. Understand the most appropriate stakeholders and the most appropriate form of engagement.
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 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.
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.
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.
Learn about the business context of the APS as well as develop skills and share high-value work practices required to effectively provide professional executive assistance.
In this module, you’ll learn the essentials for working away from the office, including key guidance for both managers and staff.
The program, delivered across four modules, focuses on four key topics to build foundational strategic workforce planning capability across the APS.
Understand the capability requirements and behavioural expectations at of APS 6 level. Gain clarity of the APS Work Level Standards and the APS Integrated Leadership System.
Understand the work level standards, capability requirements and behavioural expectations at the APS 5 level detailed in the APS Work Level Standards and the APS Integrated Leadership System.
Understand the critical role requirements of EL 1's through the APS Work Level Standards and capabilities and behaviours identified in the APS Integrated Leadership System.
Understand the broad role requirements of EL 2s through the APS Work Level Standards and deepen your understanding of the capabilities and behaviours required.
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.
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 course will help to better understand indemnities and how to reduce likelihood and consequence of the risks that they present.
This eLearning module explores the APS model of Performance management.
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 is a practical and participative course to build confidence in giving presentations. Examine the learning techniques, structures and elements that create and deliver good presentations.
This course covers the role of the secretariat when working in government, teams and stakeholder groups. Examine protocols and learn to coordinate and prepare meeting agendas and other documents.
Explore aspects of influence and the psychology of persuasion. Understand how verbal and physical language affects interpersonal exchanges, including negotiations, meetings and briefings.
This course assists those on selection committees to conduct effective selection processes. Examine relevant legislation and principles guiding staff selection and retention to get the best candidate.
This course examines aspects of influence and persuasion and the negotiation skills essential for managing and leading at the executive level.
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.
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.
This package defines the four core elements required for delivering great policy advice: being clear on intent; being well informed; solutions are practical to implement; and advice is influential.
Gain practical and usable knowledge on cabinet submissions and the Cabinet process, leveraging the knowledge of Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Cabinet Division.
The program focuses on developing APS Change Management capability to build the capacity for government to deliver well considered and well-planned change.
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.
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.
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 module explores practical tools and techniques to undertake program management, to effectively support workforce planning implementation including governance, monitoring evaluation and iteration.
In this module, participants will apply workforce planning to determine crucial capabilities and understand the organisational culture required to meet future business needs.
This module is about identifying job roles that are crucial to achieving organisational outcomes and become a priority for workforce planning efforts. It’s a foundational concept for workforce planning.
The Workforce Planning Boost Program is a collection of modules that target the development of technical workforce planning skills. These units have been co-designed by the APS Centre of Excellence for Workforce Planning, with workforce planning experts and academics from across Australia.
This module teaches the capability to forecast workforce demand and supply. Forecasting is used in all types of workforce planning to inform decisions about the future.
This course will introduce you to the key principles, your obligations and expected behaviours regarding how records are managed in the Australian Public Service.
In this course you will be introduced to the key principles and obligations associated with records management in the Australian Public Service.
By undertaking this course you will learn what Work Health and Safety (WHS) is, why it is so important, key WHS principles and your responsibilities.
Learn about protective security arrangements in the public service, including physical security, information security and cyber security.
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 covers basic concepts and terminology related to digital preservation in Australian Government agencies.
This e-learning module introduces the role of metadata for digital preservation in Australian Government agencies.
This e-learning module introduces concepts and workflows for digital archiving in Australian Government agencies.
This e-learning module describes strategies used for digital preservation in Australian Government agencies.
This course is designed to help improve partnerships with ministers by uplifting the capability of APS staff to engage with ministers and their advisors.
National Archives of Australia provides guidance on information storage decisions. It provides advice about the different types of business information agency staff and contractors can or can't destroy as part of their daily work.
The Change Management Practitioner program is an online program offering extension learning to participants who have completed the Change Management Foundation Program.
The Turning Data Into Information course is designed to build your analytical skills and equip you with a range of statistical tools and techniques that will help you both understand and analyse data in the context of a research question or issue
The Regulatory Professional Practice Support Program has been designed to support regulatory practitioners to navigate immediate challenges and strengthen commonly required skills and capabilities.
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.
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 Coaching for Women in Data and Digital (C4WID) Program focuses on group coaching to help you develop leadership skills in data and digital related roles within the public sector. The program will help you reflect on your strengths, values and career goals, and dedicate time to professional growth in a supportive context.
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.
Climate risk and opportunity principles will build user understanding of the types of climate risks and opportunities that might be encountered through their work. Learners will be challenged to consider how their programs, projects, and policies interact with climate risk and possible opportunities relating to their work.
Applying the climate risk management guide, is designed to step users through the the process of assessing and managing climate risks and opportunities in the Australian Public Service.
This module provides information on regulatory frameworks for APS HR professionals by providing access to the frameworks (via links and webpage references) and explaining how they can be applied to relevant situations.
Strategic liaisons between HR functions and business areas are fundamental to delivering quality HR outcomes in the APS.
HR data is used in almost every aspect of recruitment, retention, development, innovation and monitoring of workforce productivity.
APS recruitment processes need to support sound, evidence-based decision-making. The Public Service Act 1999 requires that engagement and promotion decisions in the APS are based on merit.
This course is provided to increase awareness and skills for Australian Government (Commonwealth) agencies to make use of metadata to help manage information assets (data, information and records).
Access practitioner tools, practical guidance, resources and capability programs to align agency practices with the APS Mental Health Capability Framework.
The purpose of this ACCELERATE2Train course is to provide participants with the opportunity to gain valuable skills and knowledge in training techniques when delivering in a virtual environment.
The purpose of this ACCELERATE2Present course is to provide participants with the opportunity to gain valuable skills and knowledge in presentation techniques when delivering in a virtual environment.
The purpose of this ACCELERATE2Facilitate course is to provide participants with the opportunity to gain valuable skills and knowledge in facilitation techniques when delivering in a virtual environment.
Footprints is a framework that supports APS employees to continually increase and enhance their cross-cultural knowledge and understanding.
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 course will help build your foundational knowledge about important aspects of Australia’s system of government, structures, and frameworks that relate to your work in the APS.
This eLearning course will help to understand fundamental concepts of records systems used in Australian Government agencies. The course can build a professional understanding of these concepts helpful for anyone working in government.
This course covers a foundational understanding of climate science topics, detailing the mechanisms and consequences of climate change, and the significance of Global Warming Potential and Carbon Dioxide Equivalent values.
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.
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.
Thrive@work – In today’s fast paced world, maintaining a healthy work-life balance and optimising productivity can be challenging.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The Introduction to Comcover eLearning course provides you with a foundational understanding of Comcover and its role in supporting Australian Government entities.
Liaising with Comcover equips officials with knowledge to provide effective risk management advice and support in their entities.
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.
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.