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Thursday 4th August 2022

Full Day EVENT | 10:00 AM-3:45 PM

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An introduction to managing communication in your tribunal room.

This full day skills-based program for tribunal members focuses on developing and practising techniques to manage the tribunal room more effectively.

Participants will work in small groups to apply and evaluate strategies in response to scenarios involving common communication challenges. Topics covered include: your tribunal management style, strengths and blind spots, and how you are perceived. 

Speakers.

Director, Seedling CTS
Simon Wood
Simon has been helping organisations and individuals build their leadership, sales and customer service strength for nearly twenty years. Proven results, a client focus and a love of learning enables him to deliver tailored, nuanced and effective end-to-end solutions, from consultation, facilitation and design through to delivering training and coaching. Simon’s background in psychology and coaching enables him to think critically and to design learning programs based on evidence; his performance background enables him to communicate persuasively and deliver strongly in the room; and his business experience enables him to adapt to difference contexts quickly.
Associate Consultant, Seedling CTS
Raj Sidhu
Raj works in the corporate and business sector as a teacher, facilitator and actor. He designs and delivers programs in leadership presence, communication strategy, leadership capability, behavioural insight and culture change, diversity and unconscious bias, conflict resolution, strategic thinking and planning, sales development, media coaching and presentation skills. He is a co-founder and company director of RealPlay Media and a pioneer in Theatre in Business in Australia along with Grant Dodwell. Raj is a certified consultant and trainer in Human Synergistic LSI and OCI tools and has been providing group and individual executive coaching to DISC, MBTI, Decision Dynamics, and other psychometric insight tools over the past 18 years.
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Senior Member Catherine Aird
Senior Member Aird has been a tribunal member for over 25 years having been appointed as an inaugural member of the Domestic Building Tribunal in April 1996. She was appointed a deputy president of VCAT in 2004 and retired from full time work in May 2021. During the 17 years as a deputy president Ms Aird was head of several lists. Most recently, the Building and Property List, which was created on 1 July 2014 when the Domestic Building, Retail Tenancies and Real Property Lists were merged. Ms Aird retired as a non-sessional member of VCAT on 3 May 2021 and is now a senior sessional member.
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Senior Member Bernadette Steele
Senior Member Steele was appointed a Senior Member of VCAT in 2002 and a Deputy President in 2006. Prior to her appointment, she was Director of Consumer and Business Affairs Victoria and a Deputy Secretary of the Department of Justice. Ms Steele spent six years as a Deputy President at VCAT, heading the Civil Claims, Residential Tenancies and Owners Corporations lists, until her move to part time work over 10 years ago. At present, Ms Steele is Deputy Head of the Guardianship List and the Human Rights List in the Human Rights Division of VCAT.