Overview
ELEVATE: Advancing Project Leadership helps project sponsors and project leaders cultivate new leadership skills and think differently to enable a high-impact, high-performance culture in organisations across Victoria’s public sector.
This highly-rated program consists of practical learning, reflection and relevant skill development delivered through a series of engaging, interactive in-person workshops, learning labs, and self-paced online resources.
ELEVATE: Advancing Project Leadership equips you to deliver projects with excellence, while directly addressing the real-world complexity and uncertainty of leading organisations and teams. Participants in this program will learn new strategies and behaviours to create sustainable, productive and agile cultures where high wellbeing fuels high performance.
Course delivery
The program is delivered typically over three months with 5 workshops and 3 online learning labs. Three of the workshops will focus on Leadership Skills while two workshops will focus on Advanced Project Management Skills required by leaders. The workshops are interspersed with learning labs, which are held in an experiential and safe environment for participants to practice what they have learnt.
Course outcomes
Leadership excellence
- Create a shared vision for leadership excellence and building meaningful connections with colleagues
- Develop leadership skills to think differently about how you lead and enable a culture of high wellbeing and high performance
- Create a culture that values transparency around critical issues
- Provide leadership capability uplift by increasing knowledge, skills and insights into behavioural, communication and interpersonal styles and how to create cultures of high impact
- Understand how to maximise personal and team wellbeing
Project excellence
- Become a driver of high-performance project management that has lasting impact
- Build advanced project management capacity by learning how to apply the most effective project management approaches and techniques
- Expand your toolkit as a project leader and understand the intersection between project management, wellbeing and culture
Thank you for creating this space of reflection for us and deep thinking about developing more advanced skills in leadership and beyond. Really engaging.
— Executive Cohort, Department of Health
A thoughtful/ Structured approach to the critical role of wellbeing in leadership.
— Project Manager Cohort, Department of Health
