Workshops

Workshop A: Full Day

Workshop:
Combating barriers to an ethical culture

Presented By:
Ethical Standards Command, Queensland Police Service (QPS)

This workshop covers the following three topics:

• Embedding ethical leadership within an organisation
• Strategies to support active bystandership
• Giving meaning to organisational values.

The workshop aims to additionally provide participants with an understanding of the role of a bystander and to equip viewers with the skills to become an active bystander in circumstances where negative behaviour is occurring. It will serve to educate delegates with an awareness of the impact of bystander behaviour on the individual, the working group, and the organisation. Through this workshop the delegates will gain insight and awareness into how they can enrich the ethical culture across their organisation.

Workshop B: Full Day

Workshop:
What Happened? How to Conduct an Internal Investigation

Presented By:
ICAC SA

The internal investigations workshop will assist public officers to conduct thorough and fair internal investigations.

Senior Commission investigators offer participants valuable tools to ensure internal investigations are properly planned, carried out fairly and focused on truth-finding.

The capacity to conduct thorough and timely internal investigations is essential in preserving an organisation’s integrity. An internal investigation can be used to identify inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour, poor policies and procedures, and failures in process.

Workshop C: Full Day

Workshop:
Australian and Pacific anti-corruption agencies – sharing best practice in corruption, prevention and public sector integrity

Presented By:
National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), with representatives from anti-corruption agencies across Australia (federal, state and territory) and the Pacific.

This workshop is dedicated to sharing learnings and best-practice from representatives of Australian anti-corruption agencies and selected Pacific agencies. It focuses on the mechanisms which make integrity agencies successful, as well as the technical challenges they face in their everyday work.

Some dedicated sessions will cover intake, triage and assessment processes, corruption prevention and education, approaches to investigating corruption, witness, and whistleblower protection, among other issues. The workshop will enable participants to access direct expertise and benchmark capabilities for their own integrity practice.

Workshop D: Half Day Morning

Workshop:
Psycho-social safety and integrity – the critical link

Presented By:
Alistair Ping and Melinda Edwards
Ethics Advisory Services

This workshop will explore the critical link between psycho-social safety and integrity and how these insights can be used by leaders and regulators to promote more pro-integrity workplaces for the future. In the workshop participants will experience the four organisational archetypes of psychological safety by “walking the mat”.

• Consider the impact of hierarchy and fear on collective learning
• Learn how to identify the stages of psychological safety and how those levels correlate to changes in behaviour
• Explore strategies for cultivating greater psychological safety and a pro-integrity culture in your workplace.

Workshop E: Half Day Afternoon

Workshop:
Building a Culture of Integrity – Ethics, Governance and Corruption

Presented By:
David Burfoot, Senior Corruption Prevention Officer (Training),
NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, (NSW ICAC)

This interactive workshop will explore answers to these questions and will cover:

• The basics of ethical literacy and the application of organisational ethical frameworks
• The role of culture in accounting for corruption and other forms of unethical staff conduct
• Ways of measuring organisational culture and assessing if an organisation is in control of its culture
• Emerging best practice – practical tools and techniques that promote a culture of integrity in organisations

Participants will walk out of the workshop knowing the importance of culture as a ‘third dimension’ to anti-corruption work as well as with some tools and techniques they can employ to build a culture of integrity in their workplace.

Workshop F: Half Day Morning

Workshop:
10 most common probity and procurement failures in government projects and how to avoid them

Presented By:
Scott Alden
Partner HWL Ebsworth

• The most prevalent corruption risks in different sectors of government and law enforcement
• Key factors and environments that facilitate corruption and misconduct risks
• Organisational functions that are particularly vulnerable
• Appropriate and effective controls, and how they should be implemented

Delegates will benefit from hearing from an experience probity and procurement specialist providing the top issues in procurement failures and how to avoid them.

Workshop G: Half Day Afternoon

Workshop:
Corruption prevention in grant-making

Presented By:
Adam Shapiro, Principal Officer Education 
NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, (NSW ICAC)

A workshop designed for public officials involved in the development and administration of grants and grant programs. It focuses on addressing the corruption risks in the awarding and administration of grants.

This workshop is designed to help participants:

• understand the nature of corruption and the types of conduct that could constitute corruption
  
• identify conduct that should be reported
• identify and manage conflicts of interest
• become aware of some of the corruption risks in the development and administration of a grants program, and some of the strategies for managing these risks.