Development and coaching for public service professionals
Don’t wait until you are managing a team to develop your leadership style. Start making your mark at work today with Define Potential’s:
Professional Development
Leadership Training
Executive Coaching
All are delivered by our team of experienced and highly credentialled executive coaches, facilitators, and trainers.
Build leadership confidence and gain practical skills at all levels of your public sector career
Leaders are not born in isolation. They are moulded by human experience, connection, and most importantly, a commitment to self-development.
Our public sector professional development programs are designed to help build your self-awareness as a leader, cultivate the skills to thrive in your tole and navigate inevitable challenges along the way.
Professional development with Define Potential:
Your learning at your pace
Can be self-funded or via purchase order to your organisation
Is broadly aligned to the public sector operational rhythm and capability frameworks for maximum impact
Mirrors the programs available off-the-shelf to organisations.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other
JOHN F KENNEDY
‘I am more poised, and I’m thinking more strategically about what I’m doing… I have become attached to innnovation and I will continue to use it in my work’
Fulfil your potential and achieve your APS career goals with the right training at the right time
Leadership and executive coaching for public sector professionals
Not sure where to start?
Our leadership and executive coaches can get you on the right path.
Collaborate – to define your goals.
Craft – your plan to acheive them
Cultivate – real change from within
One-to-one executive coaching is available as ad-hoc support, short-term problem solving and skills training, or long-term career guidance and mentoring.
Coaching offers:
Practical support and strategies
Obtain leadership positions or overcome on the job leadership challenges at any level
Custom one-on-one training
Build leadership skills including self-awareness, communication, decision making and strategic thinking.
Tools and Resources
Expand your sphere of influence with confidence and presence in a range of situations.
Define Potential’s leadership coaching is available directly to individuals or as part of broader leadership programs run by departments and agencies.
“The coaching conversations have been incredibly useful to me. As they occurred over a period of change where I took on significantly more responsibility and authority, they have put me in the habit right from the beginning of my ‘management’ career to actively examine how I feel and behave in different situations. I feel better able to recognise the lessons from difficult situations and apply them to future unfamiliar scenarios.”
Start your coaching journey with a simple phone call. Who knows where it might lead you?
Level & skill based public sector leadership training courses
Bring teams with you using your own personal combination of influence, guidance, motivation, and even inspiration.
Our level-based leadership training courses help you build self-awareness, develop skills to overcome common challenges, and offer a deeper psychological understanding of team dynamics, resilience and balanced risk-taking tailored to your current leadership level.
Emerging leaders
Expand your ability to influence and lead from any level
(start here as APS5-EL1 and equivalent)
Enhancing your leadership
Build on your leadership experience with practical strategies and systems
(built for experienced EL1 and equivalent)
Leadership futures
Understand your own leadership style, expand your influence outside of management, and become the type of leader you admire
(designed for senior leaders, EL2-SES and equivalent)
As leaders, it’s easy to find ourselves pushed into complexities and situations we are unfamiliar with. Define Potential’s skills-based courses offer the right information at the right time to turn complex situations into positive outcomes.
‘It has been great to have the opportunity to connect with peers, to learn from each other, to be challenged to think from different perspectives and to really reflect on my weaknesses and strengths to be a better leader.’
For more information download our courses guide
Online public sector management short courses
Define Potential’s Year Long Learning short courses match the operating rhythm of your organisation, with learning aligned to those recurring priorities and milestones that shape your year. Take advantage of the flexible nature of learning and dip in and out of professional development to meet your individual goals.
