Looking to sharpen your collaboration skills, boost productivity, or lead with greater impact?
These upcoming workshops are designed to support your professional growth – whether you’re building strategic partnerships across the matrix or discovering better ways of working. Each session offers practical tools, fresh insights, and the opportunity to connect with colleagues across Flinders.
Explore what’s on offer and register today via the Staff Learning Portal.
Getting Things Done – For Leaders – Wednesday 22 October 2025
Feeling overwhelmed by competing priorities? This workshop with Tracy Maxted offers strategies to stay focused and lead effectively.
You’ll learn to:
- Prioritise strategically
- Align goals with university priorities
- Lead calmly through complexity
Building Collaborative Partnerships – Thursday 23 October 2025
This session equips you with the skills to build trust-based relationships and collaborate across teams and strategic partnerships.
You’ll explore:
- Communication strategies for influence
- Navigating silos and matrix environments
- Managing conflict and setting mutual expectations
Better ways of working – The Focus Advantage (Online) – Wednesday 29 October 2025
Discover how your brain’s natural wiring affects your focus – and what you can do about it.
You’ll explore:
- Insights from neuroscience: the brain’s hardwiring for distraction and novelty, and how this plays havoc with our focus and productivity.
- The multitasking myth and the associated costs of distractions.
- Importance of single-tasking and working deeply.
- 13 x evidence-based techniques to manage distractions and work more mindfully.
Navigating PRD in Workday (Online) – Thursday 6 November 2025
This is a practical session on how to navigate Performance Review and Development in Workday. Learn about the PRD dashboard, the different templates available, and how to set your review period. All staff are expected to complete a PRD in a 12 month period and this is a great way to learn the process.
Better ways of working – Ultimate To-do list, calendar and email systems (Online) – Thursday 6 November 2025
Transform your digital tools into productivity powerhouses.
You’ll gain:
- 10 x practical to-do list upgrades.
- Systems for tracking work that requires follow-up.
- Timeboxing calendar hacks.
- The impact of calendar whitespace between meetings and how to save time with batching.
- 7 timesaving email hacks that (actually) make a difference.
Better ways of working – Planning, prioritising and progress (Online) – Tuesday 18 November 2025
Get clear, stay calm, and make meaningful progress.
You’ll explore:
- The impact of outer order on inner calm.
- The One Thing and other prioritisation strategies.
- Tips for clarifying other people’s urgent requests and holding boundaries.
- Overcoming procrastination with the Pomodoro Technique and the 5-Second Rule.
- The Eat That Frog morning productivity strategy.
- Planning using iMastery’s custom 4Ps End-of-Day Planning Checklist.