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GOVguild Membership

The Essential in APS6 Professional Development

An exclusive network of APS6 in pursuit and mastery of the Good Work Life.

Providing a sustainable, scalable and impactful approach supporting APS Reform, helping to create a citizen-centric, collaborative, and adaptive public service that can meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

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GOVguild APS6 Membership

DESIGNING THE GOOD WORK LIFE IN THE APS

GOVguild Design

An expertly crafted tailor-made offering for the APS. Exploiting fit-forpurpose technology, best-in-breed partnerships and science informed methodologies, for maximum impact, minimum input and the best value for members, the APS, Australia and Australians.

Leadership Strengths Profile

A highly personalised and actionable report provided by a Government trusted, world-leading, multidimensional dynamic strengths survey tool, helping members discover key leadership strengths and the best way to use them to maximise potential and performance.

Business Model You®

A simple, proven way to craft a Personal Work Model at any stage, empowering members to remain dynamic, adaptive, and resilient throughout their careers and gain clarity and confidence by visualising the complex APS environment and the logic by which they create and deliver value.

Networking & Collaboration

A vibrant, supportive peer network fostering belonging, connection, and collaboration, enabling members to build relationships with other APS6 professionals and support one another in pursuing and mastering shared goals.

Art of Mentoring

Access to world-class, Government trusted, mentoring resources and a contextualised reciprocal mentoring program, enabling members to master the art of mentoring, deepen their network, and at the same time, amplify their pursuit and mastery of the Good Work Life in the APS.

Work on Wellbeing

Valuable, actionable strategies and quarterly monitoring to track progress offered through a secure, ethical, and scientifically validated assessment platform, giving a clear picture of members’ current state of wellbeing and help them develop strategies to improve it.

LEGO® Serious Play®

Employ the powerful methodology of LEGO® Serious Play® for facilitated thinking, communication, and problem-solving to build and express the complex concepts behind the Good Work Life through storytelling and metaphors.

Membership

The 12-month membership of $1730 + GST, includes access to all GOVguild’s quests and experiences. Consistency is key, with a time commitment of just 10 minutes per day, plus 1.5 hours per month for mentoring. An asynchronous, Challenge by Choice approach makes participation easy to adapt within work and life.

Who is a GOVguild membership for?

Ideal for positively energising APS6 who:

• Would like to shape their future, design and build the APS experience they want.

• Are passionate about personal and professional development, seeking clarity and confidence, wellbeing, and dedicated to making a positive impact in the lives of others, their workplace and community.

• Are open-minded, collaborative, and willing to engage in meaningful conversations and activities with others.

• Are committed to upholding the APS Values and GOVguild’s Principles, including integrity, trust, inspire, and gratitude.

• While GOVguild is geared towards the Australian Public Service, individuals from other government agencies, who share these values and are committed to public service may also make great members of GOVguild.

+ Ideal APS6 Professional Development solution for Executives who:

• Value the professional development and wellbeing of their team members.

• Are committed to supporting their team in their career aspirations and personal growth and understand the benefits of investing in their employees' skills, knowledge, and wellbeing.

• Appreciate the value of a supportive community of peers and mentors in promoting employee engagement and motivation and be willing to allocate resources to enable their staff to participate in professional development opportunities.

• Enjoy enabling a positive workplace culture.

• Who have limited time but want to ensure their valued team members grow in their jobs and enjoy their work.

+ Ideal sponsorship opportunity for an SES who:

• Values professional development, innovation, and a strong positive corporate culture.

• Understands the importance of investing in their employees and interested in empowering their APS6 staff with proven tools, techniques, and support to design and build a better and more meaningful job.

• Recognises the potential benefits that GOVguild’s core experiences could have for their agency, such as improved wellbeing, collaboration, innovation, and employee engagement.

• Has previously participated in mentoring programs and experienced the benefits firsthand.

• Looking to amplify APS Reform initiatives with cost effective strategies.

+ Ideal solution for an agency:

• That values employee development and wellbeing, and is committed to creating a skilled, capable, and adaptable workforce that can meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

• That is undergoing transformation or modernisation initiatives, as well as those that are seeking to enhance their organisational culture and employee engagement.

• that recognises the value of investing in their employees' personal and professional growth and wellbeing.

• Looking to amplify the APS Reform initiatives with cost effective strategies.

• Looking for a tailor-made, high-impact, sustainable and cost-effective solution to empower their APS6’s to thrive and change and find satisfaction at work.

APS Strategic Alignment

APS Reform

• Integrity

• People first

• Employee experience

• Confident & competent workforce

Commissioner’s Directions

• APS Values

• Code of Conduct

• Performance Management

State of the Service

• Culture

• Capability

• Commitment

WHS Act 2011

• The role of middle managers

• Psychological health & Safety

• Good Work is Good for you

APS learning strategy & frameworks

• Purposeful

• User Centric

• Adaptable

• Impactful

APS Leadership Capabilities

• Integrated Leadership System (ILS)

• Leadership Behaviours: DRIVE .

Micro Daily Actions

A science-based action to try for a kinder healthier APS

The GOVguild Journey

Good Work Life by Design

Connecting

Every Day Every Week

Weekly Challenges

Games, Quizzes & LEGO® Serious Play®

Every Month

90 Day Performance Series

Planning

Actioning & Insight Assessments & Learnings

Every Year

Reciprocal Mentoring

Practice, feedback & debriefs:

• Work on Wellbeing

• Strengths Realisation

• Good Work Modeling

• LEGO® Serious Play®

Every Quarter

Celebrations & learnings

1% Challenge Awards

Ripple effects

Learnings

GOVguild is an exclusive network of APS6 professionals who are dedicated to enhancing their experiences and finding fulfillment in the Australian Public Service.

The approach is based on principles of positive organisational psychology, modern motivation theory, and workplace wellbeing. It strategically complements the APS Planning and Performance cycle with a consistent, strengths-based performance process.

Members support each other through a vibrant peer network where they exchange ideas, perceptions, aspirations, and discoveries. This exchange facilitates the development of their competence towards mastering the Good Work Life. GOVguild provides members with a range of proven tools and techniques, including design thinking, mentoring, practice, reflection, analytics, and insight. These tools and techniques help members develop the mindsets, practices, and habits necessary to build and maintain meaning, autonomy, and mastery in their work, and foster uplifting relationships that last a lifetime.

What is GOVguild?

The 1% Challenge

If 1% of APS6 increase their collective wellbeing by 1% ...

… will there be a ripple effect?

The GOVguild 1% Challenge for APS6 members is an initiative aimed at improving their collective wellbeing by focusing on making small but consistent improvements.

Research and evidence-based practice show that even a small improvement in individual wellbeing can have a ripple effect on others around them, leading to an overall improvement in the culture and productivity of the APS.

The benefits of the challenge include increased job satisfaction, engagement, and productivity, leading to better outcomes for the APS and Australians. It also fosters a sense of belonging and connection within the APS, encouraging collaboration and breaking down silos.

Ultimately, the challenge is about striving for ongoing mastery of the Good Work Life and asking the question "how good can it get?”.

By prioritising collective wellbeing, the challenge can create a positive ripple effect through the APS and beyond.

How does GOVguild achieve that?

Masterfully orchestrated, GOVguild is an innovative approach, designed to achieve the highest impact at the best possible value for participants, their teams, agencies, the Australian Public Service, Australians and Australia.

DURATION:

• 12 months, 4 x 90-day performance seasons.

• 4 Quests and 5 Core Experiences offered on a Challenge by Choice basis to accommodate individual commitments.

• Expect to commit 10-minutes per day, plus at least 1.5-hour for peer-mentoring sessions per month.

PRICE:

• $1,730 + GST

The Unicorn Factor

Foundations

The four GOVguild Quests provide a consistent rhythm and framework in which to pursue the Good Work Life.

The five Core Experiences provide the essentials with which to master the Good Work Life.

QUEST FRAMEWORK Foundations

 The Quests provide a consistent rhythm to guide members.

 Challenge by Choice - everything is optional. Nothing is mandatory. It's all research-informed and highly recommended.

CORE EXPERIENCES Foundations

 The five Core Experiences provide the essentials with which to master the Good Work Life.

 Each Core Experience is highly personalised and contextualised.

 With robust data, proven tools and a consistent rhythm for reflection, insight and the support of a peer-mentor and community, members prioritise goals, plans and celebrate successes.

 The Core Experiences Program is orchestrated Monthly within the relevant Performance Series.

Work on Wellbeing

 Access to a secure, ethical, and scientifically validated assessment tool providing a holistic overview of an individual's mental, emotional, and physical state, along with actionable strategies to improve their wellbeing over time.

Key Benefits

 The ability to track progress towards achieving wellbeing through relevant monthly tasks available throughout the Four Seasons Performance Series, and to contribute essential data to the GOVguild 1% Challenge.

 Mastery of a common framework for wellbeing, which enhances mentorship and enables individuals to share common goal with their fellow GOVguild members.

Measuring what matters - an evidence-based wellbeing assessment helping us master the Good Work Life

• Work on Wellbeing is an evidence-based wellbeing assessment tool that provides a holistic overview of an individual's mental, emotional, and physical state. This core experience is designed to help individuals master the Good Work Life and achieve wellbeing in all aspects of their life.

• By choosing Work on Wellbeing, individuals have access to a secure, ethical, and scientifically validated assessment tool that offers insight, guidance, and support towards achieving the Good Work Life. They receive a clear picture of their current state of wellbeing, along with actionable strategies to improve their wellbeing over time.

• Individuals track their progress towards the Good Work Life through wellbeing by monitoring personal results over time. As a core experience, relevant monthly tasks will be available throughout the Four Seasons Performance Series.

Work on Wellbeing complements the APS Reform by supporting the objective of building a skilled and capable workforce that is adaptive to change, as well as promoting a culture that values and supports diversity and inclusion.

It also encourages the use of data and technology to improve decision-making and service delivery, which aligns with the APS's focus on innovation.

By providing a holistic assessment tool for mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing, Work on Wellbeing supports the APS's objective of enhancing the health and wellbeing of its workforce.

• Taking the Work on Wellbeing Assessment is easy and only takes 15 minutes to complete. After completing the assessment, individuals unpack their WoW Report through a guided self-debrief for insight and planning. They discover the power of WoW and its benefits through the provided resources.

• By choosing Work on Wellbeing, individuals are a part of something extraordinary. They will be contributing collective data to the GOVguild 1% Challenge enabling the tracking of progress towards a 1% increase. By mastering a common framework for, and shared goals towards wellbeing, individuals greatly enhance their mentorship and shared experience.

Art of Mentoring

 Access to the latest in mentoring best practices, evidence-based programs, software, and world-class resources offered by an Australian-based business operating globally in 26+ countries.

Key Benefits

 Mastering the Art of Mentoring through world-class, evidencebased online mentoring training developed by subject matter experts to support individuals on their mentoring journey and strengthen and grow their network across the APS, exponentially increasing their ability to pursue and demonstrate mastery of the Good Work Life.

 Creating a ripple effect throughout the APS by choosing to master the Art of Mentoring, exponentially increasing individual ability to master the Good Work Life and collective ability to succeed in the 1% Challenge.

Master the art and experience the impact of strategic mentoring

The Art of Mentoring is a core experience designed to guide individuals through navigating the Four Seasons Performance Series with a think out loud buddy by their side. By choosing the Art of Mentoring, individuals access the latest in mentoring best practices, evidence-based programs, software, and world-class resources offered by an Australian-based business operating globally in 26+ countries.

• Individuals master the Art of Mentoring through world-class, evidence-based online mentoring training developed by subject matter experts supporting them on their mentoring journey. They strengthen and grow their network across the APS, exponentially increasing their ability to pursue and demonstrate mastery of the Good Work Life.

• To get started, individuals access the secure Art of Mentoring platform and register in 10 minutes. The information provided during registration helps 'match' mentoring partners based on their agency, job family, strengths profile, and wellbeing indicators. The 'match' algorithm is designed to enable GOVguild's Big Purpose, support individuals in broadening and deepening a vibrant network, and to realise the Good Work Life through Core Experiences.

Art of Mentoring complements the APS Reform by focusing on building a skilled and capable workforce that can adapt to change and value diversity and inclusion.

It provides individuals with world-class, evidence-based online mentoring training to support them on their mentoring journey, strengthening and growing their network across the APS. This encourages collaboration and engagement between the APS and stakeholders, while improving the capability to manage and deliver major projects and initiatives.

The Art of Mentoring supports the APS Reform's objective of modernising and transforming the APS into a more effective and responsive public service.

• Quality training is critical in equipping individuals with the skills they need to maximise mentoring opportunities. Art of Mentoring training products are delivered as video-based, online training modules, and accessed via the Art of Mentoring platform. Guidance from both the Art of Mentoring and GOVguild platforms will be provided, and regular feedback sought throughout the Performance Series ensuring we stay on track and adjust when required.

• By choosing to master the Art of Mentoring, individuals are exponentially increasing their ability to master the Good Work Life, GOVguild's ability to succeed in the 1% Challenge, and creating a ripple effect throughout the APS.

Strengths Realisation

 Access to the world-leading Strengths Profile tool measuring 60 strengths across three dimensions. Participants gain advanced insights into their strengths and design strategies to optimise performance and wellbeing.

Realise your superpowers, keep them in peak condition and achieve your goals!

Strengths Realisation is a core experience offered by GOVguild that helps members identify their strengths and use them to achieve their goals. Participants access the Strengths Profile tool, a world-leading assessment that measures 60 strengths across three dimensions of energy, performance, and use, and distributes the data across four quadrants. This Core Experience is designed by GOVguild's in-house Certified Strengths Profile Practitioner and is unique to GOVguild.

Key Benefits

 Monthly activities and mentoring sessions with the Strengths Model providing a shared language and resources for members to amplify outcomes and enhance their overall experience.

 The opportunity to share an experience with fellow members and master a common tool that is integrated throughout the Four Seasons Performance Series, enabling members to achieve both the Good Work Life and the 1% Challenge as a collective.

• By completing the survey and debriefing with the guided self-debrief, participants gain advanced insights into their strengths and learn to have positive, strengths-based conversations. The strengths model provides a dynamic platform for development. GOVguild members access the energy behind their strengths and design strategies to maximise growth potential, minimise weaknesses, and optimise performance and wellbeing for the Good Work Life.

Strengths Realisation complements the APS Reform by focusing on building a skilled and capable workforce that is adaptive to change and values diversity and inclusion.

By helping members identify and utilise their strengths, the program encourages innovation and improved decision-making while optimising performance and wellbeing.

The shared strengths language and activities provided by the program enhance collaboration and engagement between APS members and stakeholders, supporting the APS Reform's objective of improved collaboration and engagement.

• Throughout the Four Seasons Performance Series, GOVguild provides relevant monthly activities such as mentoring with the Strengths Model, where members support each other and amplify outcomes with a shared strengths language and activities. Additionally, members can find out more about the tool, strengths theory, and research through resources.

• By choosing Strengths Realisation, members are sharing an experience and mastering a common tool integrated throughout the Four Seasons Performance Series. This greatly enhances their overall experience and ability to achieve both the Good Work Life and the 1% Challenge as a collective.

Good Work Modelling

 Mastery of the Business Model You® method, allowing individuals to gain career clarity and confidence, and design a better and more meaningful job without necessarily having to quit or find a new one.

The one-page way to reinvent your work at any stage

• Good Work Modeling is a core experience offered by GOVguild helping APS6 members to reinvent their work at any stage of life. By mastering the single-page, four-step modeling method, Business Model You®, individuals gain career clarity and confidence. The Core Experience is designed by GOVguild's in-house Certified Business Model You® Facilitator and is unique to GOVguild.

Key Benefits

 Advanced insight into the complex APS environment, enabling individuals to grasp the unique model of their agency and the logic by which they create and deliver value.

 Participation in a shared experience with fellow members, mastering a common tool that is integrated throughout the Four Seasons Performance Series, enhancing the overall experience and ability to achieve both the Good Work Life and the 1% Challenge as a collective.

• Participants gain advanced insight into the complex APS environment and learn to grasp the unique model of their agency, as well as the logic by which they create and deliver value. Good Work Modeling empowers individuals to transform their work lives by designing and building a better and more meaningful job without necessarily having to quit and find a new one or search for some non-existent dream job.

Good Work Modeling complements the APS Reform by empowering APS6 to reinvent their work lives and design a better and more meaningful job without necessarily having to quit and find a new one. This supports the APS objective of building a skilled, capable, and flexible workforce that is adaptive to change and encouraging innovation to improve service delivery and decision-making.

It also provides participants with advanced insight into the complex APS environment and empowers them to transform their work lives by grasping the unique model of their agency and the logic by which they create and deliver value, supporting the APS objective of developing a new operating model for the APS that is citizen-centric, collaborative, and joined-up across government.

• The core experience includes relevant monthly activities throughout the Four Seasons Performance Series. It provides modeling best practices, templates, and resources, enabling an understanding of how APS, agency, division, team, and personal service models interrelate. Participants get lots of opportunities and support to practice applying designer mindsets, tools, frameworks, and data to enjoy the present moment at their jobs and attain the freedom to prototype a new future.

• By choosing Good Work Modeling, participants share an experience with their fellow members and master a common tool that is integrated throughout the Four Seasons Performance Series. This greatly enhances their overall experience and ability to achieve both the Good Work Life and the 1% Challenge as a collective.

LEGO® Serious Play®

 Facilitation of thinking, communication, and problem-solving through the use of an extensively researched methodology.

 Collaborating and testing ideas with others lead to advanced insights and a deeper understanding of the Good Work Life's identity and dynamics.

Key Benefits

 The experience generates a powerful emotional charge, making it easier for participants to express thoughts and ideas in greater detail, and personalised Toolkits of specially chosen LEGO® bricks and elements will be provided to each participant upon registration.

Think through your fingers - unleash insight, inspiration and imagination

The LEGO® Serious Play® core experience is a powerful technique designed to facilitate thinking, communication, and problem solving. Extensive research from the fields of business, organisation development, psychology, and learning has been used to develop the methodology. This experience has been exclusively designed by GOVguild's in-house Certified LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator.

• Through using bricks as a medium to build and express complex ideas through storytelling and metaphors, LEGO® Serious Play® participants literally have the Good Work Life concepts on the table. Collaborating and testing ideas with fellow Members, Mentors, and/or others lead to advanced insights.

• The experience generates a powerful emotional charge, making it easier to express thoughts and ideas in greater detail, be more easily understood and remembered. Participants have numerous opportunities to experience the methodology of LEGO® Serious Play® throughout the Four Seasons Performance Series, gaining a deeper understanding and clarity of their Good Work Life's identity and dynamics.

LEGO® Serious Play® complements the APS Reform by addressing some of its key objectives. Specifically, it can help to develop APS6 employees' problem-solving, communication, and critical thinking skills, which are essential for meeting the challenges of the future.

By fostering collaboration and promoting the sharing of ideas and insights, LEGO® Serious Play® can contribute to a more cohesive and integrated APS workforce.

This experience aligns with the APS Reform's goal of building a high-performing and agile public service that can respond to the changing needs of the Australian public.

• Relevant activities are available throughout the series, and personalised Toolkits of specially chosen LEGO® bricks and elements will be provided to each participant upon registration. By choosing LEGO® Serious Play®, participants share an experience with fellow members and master a technique that is integrated throughout the series. Ultimately, this experience will greatly enhance the overall experience and ability to achieve both the Good Work Life and the 1% Challenge as a collective.

The Members’ Butler

The Butler's role is to guide members calmly in their adventure, ensuring they are equipped to succeed, connect with fellow esteemed members and continuously deliver a high level of service that exceeds expectations.

Commitment 1.

Continuously strive to make it easy for all members to access, pursue and master the Good Work Life in the APS through the GOVguild experience.

Commitment 2.

Orchestrate an unexpectedly unique, holistic experience that empowers all members to identify, track and achieve their goals and ultimately lead the Good Work Life that they desire.

Commitment 3.

Because every hero deserves a Butler.

Curate and maintain a thriving ecosystem that is Social-Firstunleash a highly collaborative and personalised experience for all members - enabling lifetime bonds.

Commitment 4. Design the GOVguild experience to fit in with the rhythm of the APS, the flow of Agency work and the lives of all members.

KELLIE CHAMBERLAIN

FOUNDER & ORCHESTRATOR

EMPOWERING CONFIDENCE & COMPETENCE

THROUGH SELF - EFFICACY & WELLBEING

Kellie has over 25 years’ experience in strategy, transformation and performance in public, private and NFP sector organisations. She has extensive experience leading, managing and delivering innovative awardwinning solutions.

12+ years within, for, and across the Australian Public Service. Agency experience including: APSC, Defence, Home Affairs, Comcover, Comcare, ASADA, Hansard, NGA, Aged Care, LearnHub and Department of Jobs provides a broad and deep understanding of the APS learning, capability and performance environment.

As Founder & Orchestrator of GOVguild, Kellie draws on her professional experiences, qualifications and certifications including Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Positive Psychology & Wellbeing, Marketing, Government, Education, Teaching, Coaching, Strengths Profiling, LEGO® Serious Play® and Business Model You®.

Kellie brings together best-in-breed partnerships, a fit-for-purpose technology stack, the latest research in business design thinking and cognitive, wellbeing, positive psychology, and behavioural sciences.

Through an innovative business ecosystem design, Kellie has created a bespoke effective, efficient and sustainable performance solution. GOVguild empowers APS6 to pursue and master the Good Work Life, amplifying APS Reform initiatives, and supporting a positive workplace culture in the Australian Public Service.

The Essential in APS6

Professional Development

 Globally recognised Art of Mentoring platform, peer-program and training

 Scientifically validated quarterly Work on Wellbeing assessments

 An all-inclusive Strengths Report tailored to who you are as a leader

 Personalised LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® toolkit and fortnightly challenges

 Good Work Modeling mastery based on a proven four step process

 Best-practice Annual Performance Framework

 Research-based Monthly Wellbeing Activities

 Evidence-informed Weekly Reflections, Games, Quizzes and Challenges

 Science-based Daily Micro Actions for a kinder and healthier APS

 A positive and supportive Network of energising peers from across government

 24/7 secure access on any device

 Full-time Guild Butler - anticipating the needs of APS6 heroes

$1,730 + GST

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The Essential in APS6

Professional Development

Looking for a sustainable, scalable and impactful approach to supporting APS Reform, helping to create a citizen-centric, collaborative, and adaptive workforce that can meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century?

Specifically designed to support the APS achieve its reform and performance goals, GOVguild offers agencies and teams a unique solution that’s cost-effective and ready to go and easy to implement.

Save time and money. Take advantage of bulk memberships to suit your budget and goals for a targeted, modern approach to APS6 professional development.

50 Memberships

$70,000 + GST

10 Memberships

$16,000 + GST

20 Memberships

$30,000 + GST

5 Memberships

$8,500 + GST