Executive Leader

Information about the Executive Leader context and resources to support you to understand and use Leadership Expectations.
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The Executive Leader context is about shaping complex initiatives covering multiple business areas as well as having a key responsibility in corporate governance.

This information is relevant for individuals working in the Executive Leader context.

If you are looking at this for the first time, watch this 4 minute video and read Leadership Expectations - Overview to understand the expectations for how people show up and approach their work in the public sector.  

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Understand the Executive Leader context

Your leadership context describes how and where you add value through your work. Understanding the expectations of your leadership context is the first step to enhancing your leadership impact.

Read Leadership Expectations - Executive Leader to understand the expected behaviours and mindsets for this context.

Drive your own development and growth

You are responsible for your own development and growth. Your manager and organisation will support you, but your growth must begin with your desire to be better, and to be open and willing to change.

Read Taking responsibility for my development and growth for suggestions on how to get started.

Complete a self assessment

Start driving your development and growth by building self awareness through reflection and self assessment.

Complete a behaviour self assessment to:

  • understand the expected behaviours of your context
  • reflect on and assess your performance
  • identify your strengths and development areas.

Have performance and development conversations

Performance and development conversations are essential for your development and growth.

Read Including Leadership Expectations in my performance and development to learn ways to include Leadership Expectations in performance and development conversations with your manager.  

Engage in learning opportunities

Explore and engage in learning opportunities for the Executive Leader context:

You can also review all learning and development opportunities provided by the Public Sector Commission. 

Progress your career

Are you aspiring to move into a role that sits in a new leadership context? Or have you recently been appointed to a role in a new leadership context?

Leadership Expectations can set you up for success as you progress your career.

Read Transitioning to the next context to understand what you need to have a successful transition.

Use the Transition shifts, challenges and support matrix to learn how the focus of work shifts from the Executive Leader text to Agency Leader.

Information for managers

Use the information below to understand how to use Leadership Expectations to support you as a manager.

Have performance and development conversations

Leadership Expectations supports you to have productive performance and development conversations with your staff by providing an objective, shared language to use as feedback and discussion points.

Read Including Leadership Expectations in staff performance and development to learn how to use Leadership Expectations for performance and development conversations with your staff. 

Complete a behaviour assessment of your staff

Measuring expected behaviours provides you with objective discussion points and feedback for your staff when completing performance agreements and reviews, development plans, mentoring, coaching and project or task reviews.

Read Measuring expected behaviours of my staff for more information on how you can use behaviour assessments to support you to develop your staff.

Complete a behaviour assessment of your staff aligned to their leadership context:

Support your staff to progress their career

As a manager, you play an important supporting role in helping your staff progress their career.

If you have staff who are aspiring to progress and transition to the next context, use Supporting my staff to transition to the next context and Transition shifts, challenges and support matrix for insights on how you can support them to transition.

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