
Covid-19
- COVID-19 JobKeeper Webinar for ASU Members (Special Event)
- What is the JobKeeper package
- How did it come about
- Eligibility
- How to access it
- Q&A session
**if you are a USU or Tax branch member, please contact your branch to access these videos**

Launch your Next Career Move
- Job Application Toolkit Part 1 – Resumes
- Types of resume styles
- Key things to include in your resume
- The format and importance of each section of your resume
- The importance of tailoring resumes to the job being applied for
- Job Application Toolkit Part 2 – Key selection Criteria
- The difference between an application letter and key selection criteria
- Best practice in answering key selection criteria
- Job Application Toolkit Part 3 – Interviews
- What types of interviews are used and why
- Interview basics
- Preparing for a targeted selection interview
- Launch your Next Career Move – Applying for Jobs
- Write the best job application letter you can
- Successfully answer selection criteria
- Prepare a standout CV or resume
- Prepare for a job interview
- Launch your Next Career Move – How to Land your Next job
- How to prepare a standout job application and CV
- Preparing for a successful job interview.
- Launch your Next Career Move – Preparing for a Successful Performance Review
- preparing for your performance review
- taking part in your performance review
- ensuring performance reviews are positive, results-focused and action-orientated
- Launch your Next Career Move – Navigating Coaching with my Manager/Supervisor to Achieve Results
- Coaching principles
- Role of coaching in the workplace
- Practical tips & Techniques to ensure coaching opportunities are positive and results-focused
- Launch your Next Career Move: Stepping Up – Navigating Your Own Career
- Where you are now and where you want to be
- Identifying your individual strengths and areas of development
- How to work out what roles would suit you
- Insider information on how recruitment and selection processes work
- What steps you need to take to get that next opportunity
- Launch your Next Career Move: Managing your Career and Networking
- Managing your career
- The Hidden Job Market – what is it and how can you access it?
- Networking – where do you start?
- Social media – what to bear in mind when you’re online
- Parental Leave & You: Session 1 – So you are planning to take parental leave
- Notifying your employer of your intention to take Parental Leave – when should you do it, what should you say
- What if you need to start leave early or transfer to a safe job
- Eligibility for paid Parental Leave
- Partner leave
- Keeping in touch during Parental Leave
- Your right to be consulted about any changes that impact on your role while you are away
- Your ASU membership during maternity leave
- If you wish, you have a right to request a further 12 months off
- Parental Leave & You: Session 2 – Arranging your return to work
- When to contact your employer to start negotiating a return to work
- Your right to flexible working arrangements, and the ability to return to work part time
- What to do you if your employer isn’t accommodating your return to work
- Parental Leave & You: Session 3 – Transitioning back to work
- Your right to flexible work arrangements
- Breast feeding/expressing at work
- Carer’s leave entitlements
- Your right to continue to access training/career progression when you come back from Parental Leave
- Your ASU membership when you return to work
**if you are a USU or Tax branch member, please contact your branch to access these videos**

Launch into Leadership
- Launch into Leadership: Contributing to and Leading High Performing Teams
- The psychological concepts underpinning team performance and team leadership
- Exploring the factors that affect consistency of performance
- Aligning team leaders, teams and strengths and values within a team
- Identifying tools and techniques to support contributing to and leading teams in a workplace
- Launch into Leadership: Leading and managing others
- Exploration of the differences between leadership and management
- Where do you manage your time in your current role, and is there room for improvement
- Managing both behavioural and technical competencies in other people
- Identifying opportunities for coaching and developing others
- Managing conflict in a team
- Launch into Leadership: Stepping up to leadership
- Where you are now and where you want to be
- The foundations of the role of supervisor or team leader – what does a good team leader look like?
- What is the difference between leadership and management?
- Leading and communicating with others – providing feedback and having difficult conversations
- Managing conflict in the workplace
- Launch into Leadership: Becoming a successful leader
- Understanding the role of a manager in the workplace
- Key information you need to know about your organisation to be a successful leader
- Introduction to the core functions of managing people
- Launch into Leadership: Introduction to leading others
- Communication with team members
- Problem solving & conflict resolution
- Next steps for action planning
- Launch into Leadership: Understanding Team work and Team Dynamics
- Team development stages;
- Contribution to teams and their purpose;
- Getting the team on the same page – where are we heading and does the team understand that?
- What does each team member contribute to the team and how do you all work together?
- Launch into Leadership: Having Tough Conversations & Making Difficult decisions
- The thought processes around making hard decisions
- Applying these concepts in a practical way when taking part in tough conversations at work.
**if you are a USU or Tax branch member, please contact your branch to access these videos**

Boost your Skills
- Boost your Skills: Effective Workplace Communications
- Different communication and working styles, and how to make those work together in the workplace
- Communicating in a flexible and adaptable way to engage with diverse groups and individuals
- What you can do in the workplace to support effective collaboration.
- Boost your Skills: Managing Conflict and Handling Difficult Conversations
- What is workplace conflict
- Common causes of misunderstanding and conflict at work
- Self-awareness and what happens to us when we perceive conflict
- Strategies for managing misunderstandings, conflict, and challenging conversations
- Understanding ways to “switch off” and “let go”.
- Boost your Skills: Effective Time Management
- Understanding factors that lead to poor time management.
- Planning & prioritising our workload.
- Energy management: fuel & recovery.
- Boost your Skills: How to deal with Difficult Customers and Customer Aggression
- Managing difficult customer or client interactions;
- Understanding the triggers of difficult behaviours;
- Practical tactics and strategies to de-escalate and problem solve;
- Employer obligations for workplace health and safety.
- Boost your Skills: How to run effective meetings
- Preparing for meetings effectively;
- Understanding meeting roles and responsibilities;
- Making meetings more engaging and purposeful;
- Delivering results-oriented meetings and follow-up.
- Boost your Skills: Working with Difficult People
- Understanding differences & preferences individuals have in their communication & working styles.
- Exploring these differences & preferences through the use of Merril Reid’s Social Styles model & framework.
- Identify how difficult behaviour & triggers for behaviour arise due to differences in the way we work, think & communicate.
- Developing strategies to deal with differences in the workplace
- Applying tips and techniques to work more effectively with others within the workplace.
- Boost your Skills: Supercharge your Public Speaking Skills
- Why are we afraid of public speaking?
- Common public speaking challenges.
- Audiences
- Tips and tricks for public speaking
- How to prepare for a presentation
- Boost your Skills: Nutrition for Health and Wellbeing
- Understanding energy balance theories
- Examining nutrition for health
- Identifying stress and the psychology of eating
- Applying prevention techniques to health and wellbeing
- NDIS Code of Conduct Training
- NDIS Code of Conduct
**if you are a USU or Tax branch member, please contact your branch to access these videos**

Work Shouldn’t Hurt
- Work Shouldn’t Hurt: Understanding Stress to Avoid Burnout
- An examination of what stress is
- How to identify stress triggers
- Self-care/self-management techniques you can apply to your own working life.
- Work Shouldn’t Hurt: Work Life Balance, Resilience, Stress Management and Self Care
- What does overall wellbeing and resilience at work look like?
- Recognising stress in ourselves and others
- Building resilience at work
- Tips & Techniques to achieving work/life balance
- Work Shouldn’t Hurt: Working in Heat – Protect yourself from the dangers of working outdoors
- Health and Safety of working in heat
- Practical steps to address working in heat in the workplace
- UV and workplace cancer
- Work Shouldn’t Hurt: Bullying and Intimidation in the workplace
- How common is bullying and who does it happen to
- Identification of bullying in the workplace
- What to do if you or someone you know is being bullied
- Practical tools, resources and next steps to address bullying in the workplace
**if you are a USU or Tax branch member, please contact your branch to access these videos**

Ignite your IT Skills
- Ignite your IT Skills: Become an Excel Expert – Excel for Intermediates
- Creating formulas;
- Intermediation functions;
- Conditional formatting;
- Using chart elements;
- Chart text and object formatting
- Ignite your IT Skills: Make your Presentations Stand Out – PowerPoint for Intermediates
- Working with tables, charts and images;
- Understanding animation and media;
- Using slide masters for professional presentations.
- Ignite your IT Skills: Become an Excel Expert – Cracking the Excel Pivot Table
- Learn why pivot tables are so useful
- Look at when to use pivot tables
- Learn to set up pivot tables
- Practice creating their own pivot tables
**if you are a USU or Tax branch member, please contact your branch to access these videos**

Fire up your Finances
- Fire up your Finances: CareSuper Superannuation Series: Own your Future – 4 easy steps to take control of your Super
- Introduction to superannuation
- Consolidating your super
- Understanding Insurance
- Making extra super contributions
- Fire up your Finances: CareSuper Superannuation Series: Women and Super – Tips to close the retirement gender super gap
- The super gender retirement gap
- Targeted ways to help your super grow
- Making sense of insurance options
- Recent super changes and how they might affect you
- Fire up your Finances: Mastering your Money – Budgeting on the go
- Understanding your debt position
- Tips to cut the cost of debt
- Good money habits
- Making a budget that works
- Establishing financial goals
**if you are a USU or Tax branch member, please contact your branch to access these videos**
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