Residential Leadership Courses

We deliver six residential leadership courses, which are run on a regular basis and are open to participants from government departments and agencies. These focus on improving performance at the APS and Executive Levels. Courses are three or four days in duration and are delivered at Bowral or Bungendore.

• From Manager to Leader: Knowing, Doing, Being at the executive level

  A four-day residential for EL1 and EL2

  The rapidly changing demands on public service managers require a range of new management styles and behaviours; new skills; and new knowledge. The course aims to help managers improve their leadership skills; understand the changing public sector context; and periodically take stock of their own lives and careers.

• Building New Leadership: performing at the executive level

  A three-day residential for new or recently promoted EL1

  The objective of the course is to build capability and performance for officers who are new to the executive level, having been acting in or permanent at this level for less than two years. This course will be of significant benefit to those who represent the next generation of managers in the APS, including those who have entered through...

• Leading with Mastery and Insight: building your emotional and social intelligence for leadership

  A three-day residential for EL1 and EL2

  The program is designed around strengthening personal leadership through self-awareness, particularly knowing your impact on others, and knowing how to build and negotiate a wide range of personal and professional relationships to create value in your roles within, across and outside your department or agency.

• Leading with Strategic Intelligence: mastering strategic thinking and action

  A three-day residential for EL1 and EL2

  This course is built around the concept of Strategic Intelligence and demonstrates the importance of strategic thinking and behaviour in our individual success and effectiveness, whether in the workplace or at home. It includes a 360° feedback tool based on strategic intelligence. Strategic Intelligence is more than simply high order...

• Teams and Leadership: strengthening team performance

  A three-day residential for APS4 through to APS6 officers

  Being an effective team member in an APS agency can be challenging. Team work requires interpersonal skills, people management and self-management, all of which are key elements of this course. Designed for APS4-APS6 officers who wish to reflect on and enhance their personal contributions to teamwork and those who seek to lead...

• Teams and Leadership for Executive Assistants

  A three-day residential for EA/PA at the APS4 to APS6 level

  CPM is aware that for most Executive Assistants and Personal Assistants, training and development opportunities are not only hard to come by, but are usually pitched only at the 'skills' level. With this course we are offering EAs/PAs a course specifically to help them develop their knowledge and ability to manage people and situations...