Welcome and setting the scene: the retreat s theme and program outline. 8:30-8:45 am Claire Field, ACPET Chief Executive Officer

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1 educional your executive Retre Event Program Sunday 6 April 2014 Welcoming drinks and dinner 6:30-9:00 pm Day 1 Monday 7 April Welcome and setting the scene: the retre s theme and program outline 8:30-8:45 am Claire Field, ACPET Chief Officer Opening keynote address 8:45-10:00 am Entrepreneurship: the guts to make it happen Keynote speaker: Bill Lang, The Human Performance Company Known internionally as the Skills Architect, Bill Lang, whose own professional journey began with an extra-curricular hot-dog selling venture Melbourne University, knows firsthand about forging your own transformion to achieve professional success for you and your educional organision. Bill will share his own success story with the group to get the event off to a high adrenalin start. Over time, Bill has come full circle to share his transformion and global professional success with a straightforward message: self-understanding, good stregy and well-directed effort, rher than exhaustive struggle, are key to improving yourself and your organision. Bill s signure publicion, Scores on the Board, powerfully illustres this approach. Its story about a local soccer club th turns around both its own and its on-field success demonstres how any organision can maximise workplace contributions and transform its organisional success. Morning tea and networking 10:00-10:15 am Introducing ABC educional institution its profile, objectives and drivers, opportunities and current dilemmas 10:15-10:30 am Facilitor: Peter Giutronich, Spike Corpore Training Session 1 10:30-11:30 am Understand yourself active your mindset and enhance your professional growth as an educional entrepreneur Facilitor: Peter Giutronich As the leader of an educional in VET, higher educion or a combinion of both, you are one of a new of high-level, educional entrepreneur professionals th have emerged over the past 20 years. In this session, you will explore wh it means in practical terms to be an educional entrepreneur. You will also consider where to from here? in your professional growth as an educional leader, so you can take your leadership into new realms to support your institution to renew and flourish. Session 2 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Understand and improve your leadership management Facilitor: Peter Giutronich This session is designed to strengthen your leadership skills as a CEO. In an intellectually robust and collegial environment you will: share your challenges and practices talk honestly about wh mters in your work lives learn from each other about how to achieve your goals, and learn ways to align your values, purposes and behaviours to improve your leadership and make your organision flourish. Using best-practice examples from prive educion and training providers, you will take a fresh look your own leadership style and experience. You will use this to workshop ways th you can understand, manage and improve your own leadership, including developing resilience, displaying courage, nurturing support and making stregic use of the support systems around you.

2 Educion Leadership Retre Retre Aitken and Venues Hill Conference Centre and Dunhelen Venues Lane Centre Dunhelen Yuroke, Victoria Lane 3063 Lunch 1:00-1:45 pm Session 3 1:45-3:15 pm Developing your commercial mindset to position your in the educional marketplace Facilitor: Peter Schultz, EDC Services & Tactix In this session, you will discuss key commercial principles th you need to understand and implement in your organision from a commercial mindset. Understanding these principles will support you as an educional leader to successfully position your organision s unique offerings in the educion marketplace through: ing value proposition, and product development and differentiion. You will learn how, as senior leaders, you can embed and deliver these concepts in your educional stregy and how to carry these into day-to-day management. Afternoon tea and networking 3:15-3:30 pm Session 4 3:30-5:00 pm Getting the balance right between your workforce needs and your staff s individual needs Facilitors: Peter Giutronich In this session, you will discuss and learn stregies for developing your workforce as a whole and as individuals. Through discussion of best practice examples, you will explore employee value propositions in practical terms and how you may apply these to your to tract and retain highly motived and high performing staff, while also activing succession planning across your organision. You will discuss stregies th you can apply to your own organision which encourage your staff to do their best and which enhance work productivity, including how to extend your and your workforce s responsibilities without suffering burnout and quality loss. Afternoon free time 5:00-7:00 pm You are invited to enjoy Aitken Hill s extensive grounds and recreional facilities, or just take the time to cch up on some rest and relaxion. Dinner 7:00-10:30 pm Keynote dinner speaker TBA

3 Educion Leadership Retre Retre The and Crowne Venues Centre Plaza 242 Dunhelen Arden Lane Street Coogee, Yuroke, Victoria NSW Day 2 - Tuesday 8 April Session 5 (optional tendance) 8:30-9:45 am Ste of play: VET and HE upde and planning Facilitor: Claire Field Wh is the ste of play for VET, Higher Educion and ELICOS providers in 2014; and wh are the challenges and opportunities for you as educional and leaders in this environment? Claire Field will lead a conversion on wh you need to know about the current policy, regulory and environment th you opere in. This valuable upde will help guide your focus on the key areas th mter to your, your workforce and your industry partners so you can integre these into your planning and your stregic dialogues with your industry partners and government. Session 6 9:45-11:15 am Understand, implement and manage across your organision Facilitor: Peter Giutronich Why is managing so difficult to apply in practice and wh can you do about it? Building on the powerful example from Scores on the Board and your earlier workshopping on maximising the contributions of your workforce, this session will explore how you can apply these to boost and transform your organisional success. You will: learn about trends and developments in the field of management identify the characteristics of the effective agent and consider the strengths and limitions of your own leadership expertise consider wh tactics you need to deal with organisional politics, which can become a more significant issue to deal with in the context of, and apply methods, techniques and ideas to specific projects in which you may be currently involved. You will gain insights into why people resist and you will learn how to apply simple, but powerful, interpersonal influencing techniques to overcome th resistance. You will acquire confidence in your ability to manage constructively to achieve your organision s desired performance outcomes and help you become a more highly skilled, resourceful agent. Morning tea and networking 11:15-11:30 am Session 7 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Harness your intercultural skills to make your flourish Facilitor: Barb West, Cultural Works Developing an intercultural approach to your isn t a passing fad. It s a necessity for leaders in today s culturally interlacing and educional environment. In this session, you will learn about how intercultural skill development can impact the strength and success of your organision, through: improving relions within your own workforce nurturing your partnerships in Australia and globally, and providing culturally approprie learning opportunities to your local and internional student cohorts. Dr Barb West will draw on her extensive experience and strong theoretical background across the educion and worlds to bring to life for you the complexities of successfully utilising cultural difference. You will workshop through different scenarios th help you better deal with cultural difference and cree opportunities for your improvement and growth.

4 Educion Leadership Retre Retre Lunch 1:00-1:45 pm Session 8 1:45-2:45 pm Think find use: ACPET products and service tools th will help your educional thrive and grow Facilitor Maria Langwell, ACPET General Manager, Development Where would you like your to improve or take wings? Do you aim to expand your but don t know how to get started? Or are you nervous th not all your staff are fully skilled in quality and compliance mters? A range of scenarios will have been collected throughout the retre. Use this session to ensure th you are maximising your ACPET membership, by mapping relevant ACPET products and services to each of these scenarios. For example, learn how to use ACPET s four-point professional development program model ( development, management and administrion, teaching and learning and student engagement and support), in your own. Reflections, learnings and wrap-up 2:45-4:45 pm Facilitor: Peter Giutronich Through the use of ABC educional institution as a test case, the purpose of this executive retre was to develop a much clearer understanding of yourself as an educional entrepreneur: wh this means for you in terms of where you are in your organision, where you have taken it to this point and how you can make it flourish and grow. Take a moment in this final session with your colleagues to reflect and to consolide wh mters to you. Leave with the confidence to go ahead and stregise, plan, implement and even completely overhaul key areas. Also take a moment to reflect on your own leadership style and management and wh new personal skills you have gained to move forward as an educional entrepreneur. Event leader profiles Key Presenter Bill Lang CEO, Bill Lang Internional Bill Lang is an educor, entrepreneur and executive coach. Bill co-founded his first, Doctor Dog, while still a student. Today he is widely known as The Skills Architect, as the founder of several es and organisions with over 700,000 employees, serving 25 million clients in 50 countries. Bill travels the globe advising and coaching organisions and people how to most effectively develop the skills they need to improve human and organision performance to maximise their workplace contribution and career sisfaction. Event Facilitor Peter Giutronich Principal, Spike Corpore Training Peter Giutronich brings 25 years of corpore training, facilition, mentoring and coaching. He has facilited workshops and conferences around the world working with multinionals, government agencies and small. Peter has a Bachelor of Law and a Bachelor of Commerce and worked in the world for some years before branching out into training. Peter specialises in communicion, team building, mediion, conflict resolution and personal development.

5 Educion Leadership Retre Retre Dunhelen Lane Yuroke, Aitken Hill Victoria Conference 3063 Event leader profiles (cont) Workshop facilitor Barb West Co-Founder, Culture Works Dr Barb West has spent nearly 20 years lecturing, writing and consulting in the areas of culture, internional relions and intercultural communicions. She is a former director The 100% Project and a founding partner Culture Works, an intercultural training firm th provides trainings to professionals from all sectors of the economy to facilite cultural adaptability. Prior to co-founding Culture Works, Barb was an Associe Professor of internional relions the University of the Pacific and primary trainer for the Pacific Institute of Cross Cultural Training. Workshop facilitor Peter Schultz EDC Services & Tactix Peter has held senior level development and marketing positions in both industry and government, including BHP, Techsearch Inc., the SA Centre for Manufacturing (SACFM), and Invest South Australia. Peter s 12-year specialision in managing and commercialising intellectual property grew out of his successful marketing of the intellectual property and R&D series for the University of South Australia. Peter contributed to the development, and now the implemention, of the SA Public Sector IP Policy, in a large government agency of over 3,500 staff. He is responsible for the licensing and management of an IP portfolio of over 22,000 copyright items, and 800 active licenses. Peter has trained over 180 educion professionals in copyright, trademarks and IP management. He also specialises in Search Engine Optimision (SEO) and repution management, which is becoming increasingly important for es to survive and flourish. Event Co-Facilitor Claire Field CEO, ACPET Claire has been ACPET CEO since 2011, having joined ACPET as Deputy CEO in Previously, Claire was with TVET Australia for three years, where she was responsible for establishing the Nional Audit and Registrion Agency (NARA). Claire has extensive VET sector experience, working in stregic policy, planning and performance review roles the nional and Ste government level. In 2005, Claire worked with Commonwealth officials on a suite of VET reforms for COAG considerion. She previously worked in the NSW government, with senior roles in TAFE NSW and Quality Assurance Services. Claire has had senior management experience in Mission Australia. She commenced work in the VET sector in research and policy development roles in the Australian Nional Training Authority (ANTA). Workshop facilitor Maria Langwell Nional Manager, Development, ACPET Maria has a wealth of VET worked across the VET and employment sectors for over 25 years in NSW and Victoria. Maria worked Western Sydney Institute of TAFE and ler held senior positions within the Victorian government s educion, employment and training fields, including overseeing the ste s Overseas Qualificions Unit and contract managing government funded training places, delivered through Victoria s prive training system. Maria subsequently returned to service delivery, first with AMES and ler as General Manager of Spectrum Educion & Training, leading the College to be awarded the 2010 Victorian Small Training Provider of the Year. In 2011, Maria accepted the position of ACPET s Officer, VIC and TAS. Maria was recently appointed ACPET s Nional Manager, Development, to drive ACPET s new initiives and services.