Compassion. Connection. Understanding: Building a suicide prevention culture in the APS.
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APS leaders and emerging executives gathered for Leadership Conversations, sharing insights, expanding networks and strengthening leadership capability.
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Ethical decision making is key to acting with integrity. Explore 7 practices to support sound decisions across the APS.
Upcoming events
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Australian Capital Territory
This course is delivered on 3/03/2027, by face-to-face consisting of one 6.5-hour session.
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Australian Capital Territory
This course is delivered on 4 March 2027, by face-to-face consisting of one 6.5-hour session.
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Australian Capital Territory
This course is delivered on 08/06/2027, by face-to-face consisting of one 3.5-hour session.
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Australian Capital Territory
This course is delivered on 15/06/2027, by face-to-face consisting of one 6.5-hour session.
Courses
The Cultural Capability Hub is a central repository of practical guidance and suggested resources to support staff to uplift their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural capability.
This face-to-face workshop will build your capability in engagement and partnerships with First Nations communities and organisations.
This face-to-face workshop will build your capability in engagement and partnerships with First Nations communities and organisations.
This face-to-face workshop will build your capability in engagement and partnerships with First Nations communities and organisations.
Footprints is a framework that supports APS employees to continually increase and enhance their cross-cultural knowledge and understanding.
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.
Resources
The Commonwealth Evaluation Policy promotes consistent, evidence-based evaluation across government, helping agencies improve decision-making, accountability, program outcomes and continuous learning.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Capability Framework provides a basis for building the cultural capability of the Commonwealth public sector.
The Australian Taxation Office have developed a video series now available to the APS on insider threats and how to spot them.
For Learning & Development Teams and Practitioners
This resource explains how developing skills (mastery), coping with challenges (resilience), and learning from experience all work together to help people thrive and succeed in the workplace. This builds a long-term learning culture.
A reset mindset is a conscious approach to stepping back, recalibrating, and re-engaging with clarity and intention.
This resource outlines how informal and formal mentoring help build a strong learning culture in the Australian Public Service (APS). This type of mentoring supports capability, stewardship, integrity and the Australian community.
A learning culture means everyone learns continuously through daily work, collaboration, and accessible resources. It requires shared responsibility, supportive leaders, and aligns learning to organisational goals.
Career growth in the APS comes from curiosity and self-reflection. Managers should encourage skill development and regular reflection to boost motivation, feedback, and professional growth within teams.
Social learning occurs naturally in offices through interaction and observation. In remote teams, it must be intentionally supported with set rituals, tools, and norms to foster knowledge sharing.
Building a learning culture boosts adaptability, resilience, and readiness. This guide helps supervisors make learning a team habit for growth and success.
Building once and tailoring locally creates reusable APS learning with shared core content and separate agency-specific modules, reducing duplication, improving consistency and supporting a One-APS approach.