| Secretaries Board to lead ambitious change of APS culture, guided by agreed change program with clear desired behaviours and mindsets. | Underway | The Secretaries Board established the APS Integrity Taskforce to ensure the APS is delivering a pro-integrity culture at all levels. The Taskforce took a bird’s-eye view of the APS integrity landscape, identifying gaps and looking for opportunities to build on the important work already underway. The Taskforce delivered recommendations and associated actions under the pillars of culture, systems and accountability. Implementation of the report is underway. |
| APS 200 and APS leaders at all levels to role-model desired behaviours and communicate change to all staff. | Underway | The SES Performance Leadership Framework was finalised in June 2023 and provides an overarching set of requirements all APS agencies must adopt to strengthen behaviour and outcomes-based performance management. It was launched on 29 August 2023, with all APS agencies required to implement all elements of the Framework by 2025. |
| Secretaries Board and agency heads to ensure tools and ways of working, learning and development, performance assessment, promotions and recruitment reinforce desired cultural change. | Underway | Ongoing work to strengthen behaviour and outcomes-based performance management aims to deliver four main objectives: (1) APS agencies will implement the elements of the SES Performance Leadership Framework by 2025 (already launched); (2) SES employees will receive feedback on their behaviour as well as outcomes; (3) APS agencies will implement all elements of the non-SES Performance Framework (under development); and (4) managers will be well equipped to provide feedback on behaviours equally with outcomes when assessing an APS employees performance. |
