Enabling Optimal Performance
Course commences 14 August 2023
Enabling Optimal Performance
Course commences 14 August 2023
Essential skills for managing teams and engaging contractors, including the unique requirements for leading local, remote and international teams
Quick facts
 Duration |
 Delivery |
 Course Type |
 Next Intake |
 PD Hours |
 Language |
20 hours
|
100% online |
Short course |
14 August 2023 |
Up to 20 |
English |
Course overview
Help your sites and your people reach peak performance with critical skills for enabling safe and collaborative behaviours. From selecting the right people for the right role to ensuring productive arrangements with contractors and helping your people return home safely each day, gain actionable insights into helping your team be their best every day.
Explore topics like:
Organisations as systems
- Your role in enabling performance
- Talent selection for business advantage.
- The correlation between systems theory and mine management
- How to implement organisation design principles for mining operations
Contracts + Contractor management
- Understanding contracts and contract terms.
- Contract management systems and negotiations frameworks
- Principles of tendering and estimation
- Collaborating with suppliers and consultants
- Common causes of disputes between client and contractor
Managing overseas and remote projects
- Enablers and barriers for remote projects
- Opportunities associated with cultural differences
- Leveraging technology as an enabler
- Communication within remote teams
- Risks and mitigations for managing overseas projects
Safety and crisis management
- Your role in upholding legislative requirements
- Practical activities to analyse your site’s safety culture and safety statistics
- Understanding and harnessing human factors that can affect safety
- Evaluating site response framework effectiveness
Spanning 5 weeks, this online course has been designed to help established and emerging leaders harness knowledge and practical application to enable their teams to support critical business goals while empowering their own career journey.
Course pricing
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Learning objectives
- Examine ways to maximise the achievement of strategic goals through organisational design
- Develop strategies to engage new hires and motivate employee talent
- Identify contract engagement and execution practices that ensure successful contractor management
- Recognise and leverage opportunities associated with cultural differences
- Consider change and risk management strategies associated with setting up a remote operations centre
- Examine people-centric approaches to site safety culture and emergency preparedness
Course structure
The five-week course is a collaborative, hands-on online learning experience, taking learners approximately 20 hours to complete. Please note the live sessions are not mandatory, the virtual classroom will be recorded and available on the same day for participants who are unable to attend the live event.
Course content includes:
- Weekly live virtual classroom (with replay available)
- Additional resources and readings (case studies, videos, articles)
- Workplace activities and peer discussions
- Group discussion forums
- Learning activities in the form of short test questions
Please note, live sessions are not mandatory; the virtual classroom sessions will be recorded and available for participants who are unable to attend live.
Who should attend?
Refresh your knowledge by exploring the latest approaches for improving performance of your team
Site Superintendents and aspiring site leaders
Gain the skills and knowledge to better support your team, and to help you step up to site management roles
Virtual classroom sessions
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Course facilitators
All programs have been developed in consultation with leading organisations in the mining industry, subject matter experts and community leaders to ensure you gain the latest knowledge and develop relevant skills to accelerate your career.
Joanna Krzyzanowska
Her technical and operational background makes her incredibly qualified to project manage innovative mine solutions in both site based and in consultative roles.
She has leveraged these skills into project management and leadership roles with a focus on adding value, ensuring safe sustainable cash flow and growth through technical influence and strong relationships.