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Full Day | Max. 16 Participants
Workshop Outcomes
- Understand the principles and benefits of talent development and succession planning
- Identify high-potential employees using objective and evidence-based approaches
- Create meaningful development opportunities that build capability and readiness
- Conduct effective career and development conversations with team members
- Develop succession plans for critical roles and key business functions
- Apply strategies to retain talent and support employee engagement
- Recognise and reduce bias in talent identification and succession decisions
- Develop an action plan to strengthen talent development within their team
Topics Covered
- Understanding talent development and succession planning
- Aligning talent strategies with organisational goals
- Identifying high potential and future capability
- Conducting career and development conversations
- Creating Individual Development Plans (IDPs)
- Coaching, mentoring and stretch assignments
- Succession planning for critical roles
- Reducing bias in talent assessment and promotion decisions
- Talent retention and employee engagement strategies
- Monitoring progress and evaluating talent development outcomes
Location
- Willing to work remote
- Willing to work interstate
- Willing to work internationally
How can this workshop be delivered?
- Face to Face
- Virtual
Overview
Developing future talent is critical to ensuring organisational sustainability, leadership continuity and long-term business success.
This practical and interactive workshop equips leaders with the knowledge, skills and tools to identify high-potential employees, develop capability and build effective succession plans for key roles. Participants will explore best-practice approaches to talent identification, career development, coaching and mentoring, while learning how to create meaningful development opportunities that prepare employees for future responsibilities.
The workshop also examines strategies for reducing bias in talent decisions, improving employee engagement and retaining high-performing individuals through purposeful growth and career pathways. Through practical activities, case studies and facilitated discussions, participants will gain confidence in conducting career and development conversations, creating individual development plans and aligning talent strategies with organisational objectives.
By the end of the workshop, leaders will have a practical action plan to strengthen talent development within their teams, build resilient talent pipelines and support a culture
Workshop Outcomes
- Understand the principles and benefits of talent development and succession planning
- Identify high-potential employees using objective and evidence-based approaches
- Create meaningful development opportunities that build capability and readiness
- Conduct effective career and development conversations with team members
- Develop succession plans for critical roles and key business functions
- Apply strategies to retain talent and support employee engagement
- Recognise and reduce bias in talent identification and succession decisions
- Develop an action plan to strengthen talent development within their team
Topics Covered
- Understanding talent development and succession planning
- Aligning talent strategies with organisational goals
- Identifying high potential and future capability
- Conducting career and development conversations
- Creating Individual Development Plans (IDPs)
- Coaching, mentoring and stretch assignments
- Succession planning for critical roles
- Reducing bias in talent assessment and promotion decisions
- Talent retention and employee engagement strategies
- Monitoring progress and evaluating talent development outcomes
Who is this workshop for
Leaders, Managers, Supervisors, HR Practitioners, Organisational Development Practitioners, L&D Practitioners, DE&I Practitioners, Coaches and Consultants
Handouts/materials provided
Learning materials
What to bring
Laptops (optional) and writing materials
Facilitator
About the facilitator
Bernadette (BJay) Lakey is an award-winning Senior Learning, Organisational Development and Change Consultant with more than 20 years of experience helping organisations build high-performing leaders and future-ready workforces. She partners with leaders to design and deliver learning, leadership, organisational development and workforce capability solutions that align people strategy with business priorities and deliver measurable organisational outcomes.
Working across the mining, energy, banking, government, transport, professional services and not-for-profit sectors, BJay has partnered with complex, multi-site and regulated organisations through organisational transformational change. She is recognised for translating complex business challenges into practical, scalable solutions and programs that strengthen organisational capability, leadership effectiveness, team performance and sustainable learning cultures.
As a trusted advisor, BJay collaborates with clients to diagnose organisational needs, identify capability gaps and develop tailored organisational development and learning strategies. Her expertise includes organisational diagnostics, learning strategy, leadership development, workforce capability, change management, culture transformation, talent development, succession planning, coaching, performance improvement and organisational design.
An accomplished instructional designer, master facilitator and consulting leader, BJay has designed and delivered evidence-based learning solutions ranging from targeted workshops to enterprise-wide leadership academies, capability frameworks and blended learning programs. She has facilitated hundreds of leadership programs, people skills training programs, strategy workshops and organisational development initiatives, whilst also leading facilitation and consulting teams delivering large-scale transformation, learning and capability projects.
Throughout her career, BJay has held career roles and provided consulting services with organisations including Rio Tinto, Santos Energy, Roy Hill, Chevron Australia, P&N Bank and Western Australian Government agencies
BJay holds a Graduate Certificate in Business, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, and certifications in Coaching Leaders, Change Management, Human-Centred Organisational Development, Organisation Design, SAFe Agile, PMBOK Project Management, Human Synergistics, DiSC and Myers-Briggs. She is currently completing an MBA (Leadership and Management Behaviours) at Curtin University.
Key Expertise
- Leaders Leading Others Through Change
- Learning & Development for Capability
- Leadership Development
- Organisational Development
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Effective Communication Through Change or Conflict
- Talent Development and Succession
- Conflict Resolution
- High Performance Teams
- Change Management and Transformation
- Culture Transformation for Humans
- New Ways of Working (including AI)
- Emotional Intelligence and Mindset
- Digital Transformation
- Interpersonal workplace relationships
- Growth Mindset
- Building and Maintaining High Performance Teams
- Designing Strategic User Experiences
- Master Facilitation Skills
- Capability Frameworks and Pathways
- Coaching and Feedback Skills
- Instructional Design
Industry Focus
- Oil and Gas
- Mining
- Government
- Not for Profit
- Professional Services (Consulting)
- Banking and Finance
Based in:
About the facilitator
Bernadette (BJay) Lakey is an award-winning Senior Learning, Organisational Development and Change Consultant with more than 20 years of experience helping organisations build high-performing leaders and future-ready workforces. She partners with leaders to design and deliver learning, leadership, organisational development and workforce capability solutions that align people strategy with business priorities and deliver measurable organisational outcomes.
Working across the mining, energy, banking, government, transport, professional services and not-for-profit sectors, BJay has partnered with complex, multi-site and regulated organisations through organisational transformational change. She is recognised for translating complex business challenges into practical, scalable solutions and programs that strengthen organisational capability, leadership effectiveness, team performance and sustainable learning cultures.
As a trusted advisor, BJay collaborates with clients to diagnose organisational needs, identify capability gaps and develop tailored organisational development and learning strategies. Her expertise includes organisational diagnostics, learning strategy, leadership development, workforce capability, change management, culture transformation, talent development, succession planning, coaching, performance improvement and organisational design.
An accomplished instructional designer, master facilitator and consulting leader, BJay has designed and delivered evidence-based learning solutions ranging from targeted workshops to enterprise-wide leadership academies, capability frameworks and blended learning programs. She has facilitated hundreds of leadership programs, people skills training programs, strategy workshops and organisational development initiatives, whilst also leading facilitation and consulting teams delivering large-scale transformation, learning and capability projects.
Throughout her career, BJay has held career roles and provided consulting services with organisations including Rio Tinto, Santos Energy, Roy Hill, Chevron Australia, P&N Bank and Western Australian Government agencies
BJay holds a Graduate Certificate in Business, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, and certifications in Coaching Leaders, Change Management, Human-Centred Organisational Development, Organisation Design, SAFe Agile, PMBOK Project Management, Human Synergistics, DiSC and Myers-Briggs. She is currently completing an MBA (Leadership and Management Behaviours) at Curtin University.
Key Expertise
- Leaders Leading Others Through Change
- Learning & Development for Capability
- Leadership Development
- Organisational Development
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Effective Communication Through Change or Conflict
- Talent Development and Succession
- Conflict Resolution
- High Performance Teams
- Change Management and Transformation
- Culture Transformation for Humans
- New Ways of Working (including AI)
- Emotional Intelligence and Mindset
- Digital Transformation
- Interpersonal workplace relationships
- Growth Mindset
- Building and Maintaining High Performance Teams
- Designing Strategic User Experiences
- Master Facilitation Skills
- Capability Frameworks and Pathways
- Coaching and Feedback Skills
- Instructional Design
Industry Focus
- Oil and Gas
- Mining
- Government
- Not for Profit
- Professional Services (Consulting)
- Banking and Finance
Based in:
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