Leadership Learnings Address to IPWEA Conference Vaughn Notting

Leadership Learning's Address to IPWEA Conference Vaughn Notting City of Greater Geelong 1

Introduction • IPWEA Engineering Leadership Program (Program designed by MECC Consulting Pty Ltd) • IPWEA Management Leadership Program. 2

Engineering Leadership Program 22 emerging engineering leaders visited 5 very different Councils over a 5 month program. This was a program run by Council employees for Council employees. 1. City of Ballarat 2. Frankston City Council 3. City of Stonnington 4. Wyndham City Council 5. City of Banyule 3

Session 1 – City of Ballarat 4

City of Ballarat Session 1 - Leading a Technical Directorate • Working With Councilors • Powers and Duties of Local Government Engineers • Management of a Technical directorate • Accounting • Community Engagement 5

Showcase - Civic Hall, Ballarat 6

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Session 2 – Frankston City Council 12

Session 2 - Frankston City Council Leading in Planning and Delivery of Works and Services. • Capital Works Planning • Design Briefs • Project Management Leadership • Accountability and Transparency in Contract Management • Procurement and Tender Evaluation 13

Showcase - PARC 14

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Session 3 – City of Stonnington 19

Session 3 - City of Stonnington Leading through sustainability • Sustainable Environment Strategy • Energy Conservation: public and private • Integrated Water Management • Waste and resource recovery • Creating open space • Sustainable transport • Liveability 20

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Cato Street Car Park, Prahran 22

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Session 4 – Wyndham City Council 24

Wyndham City Council Leading in Service Operations • Introduction to Service Planning • Maintenance • Parks and Gardens • Facilities Management • Depot Operations • Fleet Management (GPS system) • Graffiti • Roads and drainage • Works Permit process 25

Presentation by David Suder – Director Infrastructure 26

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Session 5 – Banyule City Council 29

Banyule City Council • Intelligent Asset Management • Asset Management Strategy • Asset Management Plans • Service Planning • Financial Strategy and Plans • Linking Strategies and Plans 30

The Management Leadership Program 14 future managers undertook a 5 day program over 5 months to learn and acquire management skills from industry leaders. This program was facilitated by independent professionals. Session 1 – Leadership and Building an Engaged Culture Session 2 – Finance and Risk Management Session 3 – People Management Session 4 – Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Management Session 5 – Strategy, Innovation and Business Planning 31

Session 1 – Leadership and building an engaged culture • Dr Susan Inglis has expertise in facilitating collaborative processes to get better outcomes for individuals, teams and business units. • She has developed useful frameworks to build selfawareness, coupled with an understanding of business, to improve outcomes 32

Session 2 – Finance and Risk Management • Jude Munro has been CEO of four Councils: St Kilda, Moreland, Adelaide and Brisbane City Council. • She has a broad range of knowledge and experience with networks across government and the private sector. • Jude is solutions oriented and has a view that no challenge is too large and that all conflicts can be mediated. 33

Session 3 – People Management • Dr Susan Inglis. Helps leaders/managers manage their people, providing coaching, facilitation and team collaboration. She has been teaching leadership and management at MBA level since 2009 at RMIT and now La Trobe University, so have useful frameworks to develop leadership capabilities. 34

Session 4 – Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Management • David Hawkins, Managing Director, Socom. • Crisis and issues management specialist, Managing Director at Socom. With 30 years in the PR profession, spanning crisis and issues management, media relations, community engagement, and government relations. 35

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Session 5 – Strategy, Innovation and Business Planning • Dr Dahle Suggett • She is a director at PTR Consulting and a Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education. She has extensive experience in executive management and policy and strategy development. 37

Think of a world without engineers. 38

Think of our world with Engineers 39

Engineers Rock!!!!!! 40

Thank You! 41