Public Sector Workplace Skills and Management Strategies
Tailored for Public Sector legal counsel, divisional heads, operation managers, supervisors & HR personnel, you’ll gain skills and strategies to deal with current issues & workplace complaints in the Public Sector, such as unsatisfactory performance & misconduct. Learn how to deal with sexual harassment, discrimination & bullying claims. Gain practical strategies & a key understanding into workplace conflict and psychological claims. A relevant and important seminar into the public sector workforce. 228N02
Description
Attend and earn 4 CPD units in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair: Melissa Collins, Director of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Policy, Ministry of Health
9.00am to 10.00am Current Issues in Government Employment
- Managing the return to work from COVID lockdown
- The impact on requests for flexibility at work and work arrangements
- Increased risks of claims arising from the return to work, and employee interactions
Presented by Lucy Shanahan, Partner, Kingston Reid
10.00am to 11.00am Managing Performance and Conduct: How to Get it Right
- Unsatisfactory performance and misconduct: What’s the difference?
- Managing performance: There is no one size fits all
- Managing misconduct: Investigations, show cause notices and much more
- Common pitfalls and key lessons from decisions of the Industrial Relations Commission of NSW
Presented by Vanessa Andersen, Partner, NSW State Government Sector Leader, Maddocks
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm Sexual Harassment, Discrimination and Bullying Claims
Presented by Margaret Baker, Principal Legal Officer, NSW Department of Education and Communities
12.15pm to 1.15pm Navigating Workplace Conflict: Skills and Strategies
- Methods of managing and resolving conflict in the public sector
- Best practice in managing workplace conflict: skills and options
- Psychological safety: what it is, obligations
- Psychological injury claims
- Case studies and case law
Presented by Elizabeth Devine, Principal, Devine Law at Work
Presenters
Speaker profiles TBA
Venue
Cliftons - Margaret St
Level 13, 60 Margaret St
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
Parking not included with registration. Possible options:
Met Centre, Jamison St - Rates Click here
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