Peer Coaching Program
This program is currently on hold and will not be offered during 2009.
...for WOMEN WORKING IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE
Be part of an innovative professional development program and an exciting community of practice. Take the opportunity to work with an astute facilitator and with presenters who are contemporary leadership and management practitioners in the public service.
REGISTRATIONS CLOSE IN FEBRUARY EACH YEAR.
CONTACT TIME/COMMITMENT: 6 sessions over 6 months at 3 hours per session (9:00 AM to 12 NOON). All sessions are held from March to August at the Queensland Parliamentary Annexe in Brisbane.
REGISTRATION COST (PER PLACE)*
QWiPS Members: $ 650
QWiPS Corporate Members’ Staff: $ 680
Non-members: $ 750
*QWiPS is a non-profit volunteer-based practitioners’ network and takes pride in its capacity to offer low cost high impact professional development activities. Registrants must commit to pay for the full registration cost of the program. QWIPS runs this activity on the goodwill of a volunteer-based management group and presenters and the engagement of a facilitator for the full program.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The QWiPS Peer Coaching Program is a professional development activity designed for women working in the public service who are keen to be part of a dynamic focus group and are committed to learn from facilitated coaching sessions. Coaching sessions are derived from actual practice and experience within the public service. The format provides a specific skilling forum for participants in a community of practice. Using interactive sessions, participants will receive coaching on a specific set of topics to reinforce or develop skills and positive behaviours.
QWiPS is also happy to have engaged the astute skills and gifts of Ms Adrienne Ward to be the program’s facilitator. Adrienne is Managing Director of Fresco Consulting. She is a former State Telstra Business Woman of the Year and has a background in business, marketing, governance and strategy with past State and National roles. These roles included Director of Marketing, Government Relations and Business Development, Accenture and National Manager Women in Business for Westpac Banking Corporation.
The benefits of coaching have been identified as follows:
- Actively untaps potential
- Fine tunes and develops skills
- Development activities are designed to suit personal needs and learning styles
- Assists in eliminating specific business performance problems
- Can focus on interpersonal skills, which cannot be readily or effectively transferred in a traditional training environment
- Provides participants with contacts, resources or networks to assist with furthering their career or life aspirations
- Posits the contemporary or actual environment of the public service
- Coaches [and mentors] share the skills to the participant rather than doing the job for them.
Working to achieve these benefits, the QWiPS Peer Coaching Program uses a reflective approach and includes several components designed to encourage in-depth reflection towards improved performance. Sessions are not necessarily stand alone modules but are designed to be interwoven workshops that build on each other.
First, participants attend an induction and networking workshop. In addition, monthly 3-hour sessions are allotted for topical issues that integrate reflective coaching techniques from practitioners. The program facilitator will then engage participants into feedback discussions and create safe forums for developing strategies to resolve practice issues that have been raised. The last session is a review and celebration session and will conclude the program.
Session topics shall include (but not limited to):
Effective communication and networking
Project planning and implementation
Contextual leadership and management
Policy development and the Queensland parliamentary process
Personal growth and work-life balance techniques.
| 
print page
