Leading with Mastery and Insight:
A three-day
residential program
for Executive Levels
1 & 2 and
equivalents
Presented by
Dianne van Meegen
& Barry Poppleton
www.cpm.org.au
‘Leading with Mastery
and Insight’ is designed
for EL1 and EL2 officers
seeking to build
their people skills for
leadership.
The program is
consistent with the
APSC Leadership
Development Strategy
and includes a 360°
feedback report and
optional Executive
Coaching sessions.
LEADING WITH MASTERY AND INSIGHT
building your emotional and social intelligence for leadership
KEY FEATURES
• Builds your leadership skills in social and emotional
intelligence and links these skills to the critical elements
of the “knowing, doing and being of leadership” as
outlined by the APSC’s Leadership Development Strategy;
• Emphasises self-insight and mastery and social- insight
and mastery in contemporary APS work;
• Provides frameworks, skills and practise in the application of
knowing how to lead people, specifically in terms of building
coalitions and building resilience in yourself and others;
• Enhances your capacity in the doing part of your
leadership work by building your confidence, skills and
knowledge in communicating well — up, down and out;
Who should attend
The program will benefit leaders and managers at Executive
Levels 1 & 2 and professional and technical equivalents, who
wish to build the people skills of leadership. These skills,
sometimes referred to as the “soft skills” of leadership, are
often the hardest ones to master.
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 depth and influence in your roles
within, across and outside your agency.
360o Feedback report
• Builds your ability to better manage conflict, develop
learning agility and apply adaptive techniques to
challenging leadership situations, and
360º feedback is an important element
in the program, and is undertaken
using the Emotional and Social
Intelligence Profile (ESIP).
• Raise your awareness and insight into your “leadership self”,
your identity and effectiveness as a leader and your ability to
interact effectively from that identity.
360º feedback is a powerful means of
raising self-awareness for personal
development purposes.
About the program
The program is designed around building
the people skills of personal leadership
through improved self-awareness.
Leadership work in the public sector is complex
and challenging. The APS generally fares well in
applying impressively high levels of cognitive skill
and intellectual intelligence to its work.
For many organisations and individuals, staff
survey results indicate that leaders and managers
are doing less well and/or are perceived as not
demonstrating the same strong skills in the
people aspects of organisational leadership.
Generally this results in less than optimal outcomes
in many areas of organisational health and
productivity. In times of intense budget scrutiny
and constraint, people leadership matters
more than ever: to outcomes, engagement and
organisational resilience.
The new Leadership Mastery and Insight
program is designed to address these issues. It
builds on the strong and successful foundation
of the Leading with Emotional and Social
Intelligence program, which Di and Barry
delivered from 2004 to 2012.
The new three day residential responds to the
APS’s high priority of capitalising on the full
potential of its current and next generation of
senior leaders. The program offers a range of
opportunities to explore and apply the Knowing,
Doing, Being framework to your “leadership
self ”, leadership challenges and professional
relationships.
Program Leaders
Dianne van Meegen Principal
Directions for Change, Canberra
Dianne van Meegen is a principal of Directions for Change, working with the public and
private sectors. She is a highly experienced and skilled facilitator and coach in areas such as
leadership, learning, organisational and personal development and stakeholder engagement.
Barry Poppleton Director
P7 Consulting Pty Ltd, Canberra
Barry Poppleton is the Principal of P7 Consulting and specialises in leadership development.
He has over 15 years consulting experience, was formerly an SES officer in the South African
public service, is an executive coach and mediator and has a Masters degree in Management.
The program can be delivered on Departmental or Agency premises or at the Australian Institute of Management training
facilities. The AIM facilities are brand new and professionally designed, with state of the art equipment located in Childers
Street in Canberra City.
From past participants
Read what past participants have said about this program
‘EI is something that we all realise is needed, but don’t really appreciate what it is. This program puts it right
there for you to touch!’
‘The course was brilliant. Both Di and Barry have exceptional skills at what they do.’
‘It gave you specific strategies to take away to apply in the workplace, and also an insight into how others
see you.’
‘I can’t imagine anyone attending this workshop and not making changes to their behaviour.’
‘This has been the best training I have attended during my public service career.’
Optional Coaching Module
One of the challenges of attending a three-day program is to not lose sight of the
various insights, ideas, plans and issues that arise during the course.
Executive coaching is a collaborative relationship between a coach and a coaching client. The intention of coaching
is to provide coaching clients with the opportunity and support to identify and fulfil their potential in life and at
work.
CPM offers coaching as an optional package with all of our management and leadership development programs.
The coaching sessions are provided by our experienced Executive Coaches at our offices in Canberra, but are also
available in some state capitals.
LEADING WITH MASTERY AND INSIGHT
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