Sandra Lerch, Executive Director of Strategic Workforce Futures at the Public Sector Commission for the Queensland Government, joins Andy in this latest episode to explain how organisations can create workforce agility. She shares her experiences and learned lessons from her direct involvement in the recently released Even Better Public Sector for Queensland Strategy for 2024-2028.  

Listen in to hear Sandra explain how organisational agility is a change process and how, by putting people at the centre, you can achieve the agility you need to be fit for the future. Sandra also shares the three important ingredients for being purposeful and holistic in your approach to developing and embedding workforce agility in the way you work.

In today’s episode, we dive deep into the current skills landscape, outlining the skills that are becoming increasingly important and discussing proven strategies that can help organisations become more skills-based in how they attract, develop, nurture, and retain their workforce.  

Listen in as Subho Banerjee, Deputy Commissioner of the Australian Public Service and Head of the APS Academy and Capability, joins Andy to discuss continuous learning, and provide his unique perspectives, drawing on his vast experience across the public and private sectors. In this episode, Subho explains what continuous learning looks like and outlines some of the fantastic learning opportunities he has experienced that have benefited his career. He also provides an overview of the components of the APS continuous learning model, the importance of building adaptability skills across all levels in the public sector, and how to overcome challenges he has seen in becoming a learning organisation.

Join us for our ground-breaking new podcast series, "Solving the Capability Gap," where we delve deep into the evolving skills landscape. Together, we'll explore how organisations can pivot towards a skills-based approach to their talent strategy, enhance their workforce's adaptability and agility, develop AI skills in the public sector, and nurture a culture of continuous learning.

In our fifth and final episode of this series, we are tackling a significant change that’s on the minds of most public sector leaders today: how to adopt new technologies responsibly.

Pia Andrews, a global expert in open government and digital government transformation and former public servant, joins us to navigate this important change and provides her unique global and local perspectives on how public institutions can approach the responsible adoption of AI.

Our fourth episode focuses on the pivotal transformational change that organisations must embrace, which is playing the new talent game. This episode will dive into the essential factors in what it takes to attract, retain and reduce employee attrition in the public sector.

In this episode, Andy talks with Tina McAllister, Acting Director of People and Culture at the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for the Queensland Government.

What does it take for organisations to create an inclusive workplace where staff feels valued, safe to contribute, and to be their authentic selves? Has progress been made in the public sector, and how can all leaders acknowledge and act accordingly to close the gaps with their employees, especially those from diversity groups? Please tune in to hear Julie Etchells, Chief Human Resources Officer at the Department of Child Safety, Seniors, and Disability Services for the Queensland Government, provide her valuable perspectives based on her experiences working for the Queensland public sector over the past twenty-four years.

In this week’s episode, we are tackling a pivotal change facing organisations today in their quest to gain more efficiency, specifically, how an operating model approach can help achieve operational efficiency and drive better service delivery outcomes to customers.

Dan Bowes, Executive Director of Taxes and Grants Products at Revenue NSW, joins Andy to explain how his team ensures they deliver for their customers. 

Steve Brady, Managing Director of TAFE NSW, joins Andy in this episode to discuss the important change of shifting mindsets and leading to empower employees. Listen in as Steve shares his invaluable insights and perspectives on how TAFE NSW continues to embrace change and adapt to their customer's evolving needs and how Steve maintains a positive mindset and stays adaptable in the face of change. 

We are thrilled to announce series two of our Trailblazing with CorbettPrice podcast! We have a great new line-up of speakers joining us over five thought-provoking episodes as they tackle, unravel, and provide insights on embracing uncomfortable but necessary organisational change.

In the final episode of our first series, we explore the seventh dimension of organisational health, the relational dimension, which is all about learning and development.

David Powell, author, founder, and life skills mentor of The Golden Thread, joins Andy in this enlivening discussion to provide ways that L&D managers can offer learning and development opportunities that build self, relationship, and team interpersonal skills to empower their workforce in their lifelong learning journey to mastery.

The leadership style of an organisation can profoundly impact an organisation's health, affecting the workplace culture, employee experience, engagement, performance, and organisational agility and resilience.

The prolific global expert in open and digital government and former public servant Pia Andrews joins us as we discuss how public sector professionals must lead and navigate their teams now and in the future.

This week in episode five, we continue to explore the theme of employee experience by looking into one of the crucial factors that impact this positively or negatively, an organisation’s culture. Workplace culture is our fifth relational dimension of organisational health.

Cherie Canning from Luminate Leadership joins us to discuss this essential topic.

In episode four, we dive deep into the fourth dimension which is occupational health and the employee experience. COVID pushed many organisations into different ways of thinking about how and where we work. With employee attrition being a key challenge that many organisations are facing worldwide; this may be the most fundamental component of organisational health in our series.

To help explain what design thinking is and how it can be used to design a good employee experience that engages and empowers an organisation's workforce, Rodger Watson joins us.

How can we take a ‘Futurist’ approach to equip our organisations for the future?

Join us for a stimulating conversation as Andy discusses this question with Dave Wild in episode three of our podcast series on organisational health. Dave Wild is a Futurist, Strategist, and Provocateur. During this compelling discussion, he discusses how everyone can be a futurist by opening up to new opportunities and possibilities.

This episode explores the 2nd dimension of organisational health: Mental – organisational agility and resilience.

Scott Johnston, Deputy Secretary of Revenue, New South Wales, Chief Commissioner of State Revenue, and Commissioner of Fines Administration, joins Andy in this episode to discuss how Revenue NSW has applied agile principles to transform their organisation to become adaptive and responsive now and in the future.

In our first episode, Andy Corbett leads us through an overview of organisational health and the seven wellness dimensions that this series will explore. As a trailblazer in operating model design and implementation, Andy will switch hats to be interviewed by Associate Director and Head of Training of CorbettPrice, Lauren Chowdry.

Trailblazing with CorbettPrice is a podcast series featuring interviews with SMEs and influencers from across disciplines and industries to present new and fresh perspectives that challenge how business and government leaders can approach change in solving some of the biggest challenges today.