*** Applications for the Community Services Leadership Program 2024 cohort have now closed. ***
The Community Services Leadership Program brings together the finest minds in strategic thinking in a series of intensive workshops.
This program is for seasoned community services leaders, including CEOs and high-level executives, and will explore what it takes to lead your organisation through the complex world of decision-making, politics and stakeholder management.
Seize this exciting opportunity to realise your power and potential for collective impact and transformative change within your organisation, the community services industry and beyond.
If you are an established leader who wants to strengthen your personal power, collaborate with peers and upskill on contemporary tools to enhance decision-making, this program is for you. Participants will also have the opportunity to expand your networks and connect with other leaders and change-makers in the community services industry in a facilitated, learning environment.
The Community Services Leadership Program runs from May to August 2024 and consists of four in-person workshops supported by (monthly) online peer learning groups. The program is facilitated by Bronwyn Tilbury (TasCOSS), who will be joined by exceptional guest presenters in Melinda Maddock, Kym Goodes (3P Advisory) and Rhys Edwards (RDME Consulting). To view the full program schedule, please navigate to the ‘Program Schedule’ tab.
Ticket Options:
- TasCOSS Members: $900 (excl. GST)
- Non-Members: $1,500 (excl. GST)
Not a TasCOSS Member? Find out more about the many benefits of TasCOSS Membership and sign-up today.
Participants from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. We are also offering fully-funded places for Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) providers.
For more information or any enquiries regarding the program, please contact Danielle Conlan, Community Services Development Officer, on (03) 6231 0755 or email Danielle.
The Community Services Leadership Program runs from May to August 2024 and consists of four in-person workshops supported by (monthly) online peer learning groups. The program is facilitated by Bronwyn Tilbury (TasCOSS), who will be joined by exceptional guest presenters in Melinda Maddock, Kym Goodes (3P Advisory) and Rhys Edwards (RDME Consulting).
- Pre-Workshop: Our Aspirations with Bronwyn Tilbury on Tuesday 28 May 2024
- Workshop 1: Our Power with Melinda Maddock on Tuesday 11 June 2024
- Peer Learning Session 1 (online): Tuesday 25 June 2024
- Workshop 2: Our Collective Impact with Kym Goodes on Tuesday 16 July 2024
- Peer Learning Session 2 (online): Tuesday 23 July 2024
- Workshop 3: Our Tools and Strategies with Rhys Edwards on Tuesday 6 August 2024
- Peer Learning Session 3 (online): Tuesday 20 August 2024
NB: final workshop/peer learning session times will be confirmed closed to the date.
Workshop 1: Our Power with Melinda Maddock on Tuesday 11 June 2024
Melinda Maddock is a facilitator of strategy and professional learning, a Fellow with the Global Leadership Foundation and author of How to Train Your Political Animal. In her workshops, she helps people see the power they have to make change, and gives participants practical tools to make a difference in their organisations and communities.
In this session, you will learn how to use your personal power to step into your role as a leader who empowers others.
You will gain insights into:
- The way power works in a leadership context and how to use it for good;
- The importance of emotional health for today’s leaders; and
- Your own personality using the Enneagram framework.
You will identify a collective adaptive leadership challenge that you will seek to address over the course of the program.
Workshop 2: Our Collective Impact with Kym Goodes on Tuesday 16 July 2024
Kym Goodes (3P Advisory) is recognised as one of the foremost public voices in Tasmania. She has two decades of experience working in government and the not-for-profit sector in social and economic public policy fields as diverse as education, employment, transport, energy, digital inclusion, health, housing and human services. She has worked across both the public and private sectors as a sought-after adviser, specialising in public engagement and evidence informed policy and program responses.
What is the social policy vision or problem you want to advocate on? Who owns the problem or who is responsible for making a new ‘vision’ happen?
In this interactive workshop, you will explore:
- How to engage with formal systems of power to progress your agenda;
- Clearly identifying a problem and ascertaining the priorities of key decision-makers;
- Defining your short, medium and long-term strategies to influence stakeholders; and
- Learning how to effectively pitch your strategy to stakeholders.
Workshop 3: Our Tools and Strategies with Rhys Edwards on Tuesday 6 August 2024
Rhys Edwards (RDME Consulting) is a consultant, board director and leadership development professional with a particular focus on the government, university and not-for-profit sectors. Rhys loves working with organisations to secure a better future. He works helping to develop leaders across organisations in Australia and is a senior moderator at the Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership at Monash University, an honorary Senior Research Fellow at Melbourne University and a Director on the board of the national Foyer Foundation, focussed on housing solutions for youth at risk of homelessness.
In today’s world, our myths of heroic leadership imbue the leader with all the wisdom and experience that are necessary for the task at hand. The reality is much more complex.
How do we make decisions? What criteria do we use? How do we weigh the factors that are important to decision-making? What lessons can we learn from decisions that resulted in poor outcomes? How do we ensure we have enough diversity of thinking perspectives in our teams?
In this interactive session, you will explore:
- The nature of judgment and decision-making in leadership roles;
- What makes a good decision;
- The relationship between ethics and decision-making; and
- Mind mapping through an interactive case study.