Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No:  33
Division/Agency:	Department of the Environment and Heritage and portfolio agencies
Topic:	Executive Coaching and Leadership Training 
Hansard Page ECITA:	Written Question on Notice

Senator  Ludwig asked:
The following questions relate to the purchase of executive coaching and/or other leadership training services by the department/agency, broken down for each of the last four financial years.
Where available, please provide:
(a)	Total spending on these services.
(b)	The number of employees offered these services and their salary level.
(c)	The number of employees who have utilised these services and their salary level.
(d)	The names of all service providers engaged.
(e)	For each service purchased from a provider listed in the answer to the previous question, please provide:
1. The name and nature of the service purchased.
2. Whether the service is one-on-one or group based.
3. The number of employees who received the service.
4. The total number of hours involved for all employees.
5. The total amount spent on the service.
6. A description of the fees charged (e.g. per hour, complete package).
7. Where a service was provided at any location other than the department or agency's own premises, please provide:

i. The location used
ii. The number of employees who took part on each occasion
iii. The total number of hours involved for all employees who took part.

Answer/s:
Department
The Department does not have a formal executive coaching program. In the period covered by the question, the decision to conduct leadership programs has been made at a Divisional level, depending on business needs.

Some Divisions provided executive coaching for a limited number of staff during the period based on individual need.

It is not possible to answer the questions fully either because the Department’s records are not in a form which allows easy extraction of the information sought, or there has not been a business need to retain the information requested.

(a) Estimated costs of Leadership training and Executive Coaching 2002-03 to 2005‑06
2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	
$3550	$25012	$51603	$85534	

(b)  The Department uses leadership programs primarily provided by the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC). The programs are essentially available to all SES, Executive Level 2 and Executive Level 1 staff, although only a small number of staff choose to access them.

Other programs run by the Divisions have been developed to meet each business need. The programs are generally developed for staff at Executive Level 1 and Executive Level 2.

The current salary levels for Executive Level 1 and Executive Level 2 are 
$70254- $78061 and $81029 - $94936 respectively.

(c)  Number of employees estimated to have attended leadership training or executive coaching, noting that it is not possible to identify salary levels for each attendee.

2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	
62	78	170	93	

(d)	The Australian Public Service Commission
ACMER
Avril Henry
OSA Group
Tasmanian Training Consortium
John Baker 
Walter Bellin
The Human Dimension
Acorn Training Services
Manfred Kets deVries
Veritas Alliance
Centre for Public Management
Swinburne University
One-Plus-One
Rob Brennan
The Stephenson Group

(e)	1–5	Records maintained do not provide sufficient detail to provide this information.

6.	Generally, courses provided are usually charged at a package rate, while one-on- one coaching is charged at an hourly rate.
7.	i.	A number of services have been provided at locations away from the Department, usually in training facilities organised by the provider, eg, APSC. Similarly, one-on-one coaching is usually provided at a location determined by the coach. The Department has provided one three day residential course at The Carrington, Bungendore.  
ii–iii.	Records maintained do not provide sufficient detail to provide this information.

Bureau of Meteorology
Note:   The Bureau’s expenditure on this area involves both “short courses” and “long-term” courses.  
The responses given below relate to “short courses” aimed at developing the executive/leadership skills and knowledge of employees.  They do not include expenditure for which the main purpose is familiarisation with roles, planning or assistance to employees studying towards higher qualifications.
The Bureau also expended $30,000 in each of 2003-04 and 2004-05 on support for “long-term courses” comprising study towards higher qualifications closely targeted at executive/leadership skills development, and instigated by the Bureau itself (rather than self-selected by employees).    In each of these years an employee at the EL2 level (salary ranges $93,065-$98,280 and $82,610 - $93,657 respectively) undertook an Executive Masters in Public Administration with the Australia New Zealand School of Government, Canberra, involving 2 years of part-time study.  Participants were selected by the Bureau Executive from submissions by Program Managers.
(a)	Costs
2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	
$4,400	$710	$20,070	$9,075	
(b)  Interest in all courses with the exceptions below was solicited from all Melbourne-based Bureau of Meteorology employees (via e-mail) –  309 of these are at the EL or SES level.
Career Coaching:  all Bureau staff were offered the program Australia-wide (for interstate people, the coaching was done over the phone)
Executive Leadership Conference: participants selected by the Bureau Executive   
(c)		
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	
Number	6	1	27	25	
Salary level	$66,221 - $94,500	$79,433 - $98,280	$71,625 - $102,211	$74,490 - $155,507	
 (d)  Public Sector Development Unit, Public Service Commission (PSD) , Melbourne
Swinburne University, Melbourne 
One-Plus-One, Melbourne
(e)   1 - 7
See following table for responses.
		Bureau of Meteorology:  Question on Notice 33 Part (e) 1 - 7
	
Course Name	Date	Duration	Cost (complete package)	Level of attendees	No. of attendees	Salary Level	One-on-One/Group Based	Service Provider	Location	
2002/2003	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Influencing Skills	Feb-03	2 days	$810	EL2	1	$76,378 - $94,500	Group	PSD	Melbourne	
Supervision & Leadership	Feb-03	2 days	$2,190	EL1	1	$66,221 - $71,508	Group 	PSD	Melbourne	
 	 	2 days	 	EL2	2	$76,378 - $94,500	 	PSD	Melbourne	
Supervision & Leadership	Jun-03	2 days	$1,400	EL1	1	$66,221 - $71,508	Group	PSD	Melbourne	
 	 	 	 	EL2	1	$76,378 - $94,500	 	 	 	
Sub-total	 	 	$4,400	 	6	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
2003/2004	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Supervision & Leadership for Workgroups	Sep-03	2 days	$710	EL2	1	$79,433 - $98,280	Group	PSD	Melbourne	
Sub-total	 	 	$710	 	1	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
2004/2005	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Exploring Your Leadership Capabilities	Feb-05	1 day	$2,270	EL1	11	$71,625 - $77,343	Group	PSD	in-house	
 	 	1 day	 	EL2	3	$82,610 - $102,211	 	 	 	
Exploring Your Leadership Capabilities	Mar-05	1 day	$1,800	EL1	5	$71,625 - $77,343	Group	PSD	in-house	
Career Coaching	Nov-05	1 day + 3x 1h coaching sessions per person	$16,000	EL1	8	$71,625 - $77,343	Group + one-on-one	One Plus One	in-house (by phone for interstate participants)	
Sub-total	 	 	$20,070	 	27	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
2005/2006	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Executive Leadership Group VIC Annual Conference	Aug-05	1 day	$4,600	SES1	1	$109,287 - $125,828	Group	APSC	Geelong	
 	 	1 day	 	SES2	1	$131,799 - $155,507	 	 	 	
 	 	1-2 days	 	EL1	3	$74,490 - $80,437	 	 	 	
 	 	1 day	 	EL2	1	$85,914 - $106,299	 	 	 	
Developing Your Leadership Qualities	Feb-06	1 day	$1,475	EL1	4	$74,490 - $80,437	Group	Swinburne 	Melbourne	
 	 	1 day	 	EL2	1	$85,914 - $106,299	 	 	 	
Developing Your Leadership Qualities	Jun-06	1 day	$3,000	EL1	11	$74,490 - $80,437	Group	Swinburne	in-house	
 	 	 	 	EL2	3	$85,914 - $116,564	 	 	 	
Sub-total	 	 	$9,075	 	25	 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Totals	 	 	$34,255	 	59	 	 	 	 	

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority		

(a) Costs

2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	
$47,900	$14,600	$42,000	$25,500	

(b) and (c)	Total number of employees:  44
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	
APS 5	0	1	1	2	
APS 6	8	1	6	6	
EXEC 1	6	1	2	2	
EXEC 2	0	1	5	0	
SES 2	1	1	0	0	

(d)	Centre for Public Management (CPM)
The Stephenson Group

(e)	1.	Centre for Public Management: 
a) Teams and Leadership Workshops
b) Management to Leadership Workshops
The Stephenson Group - Executive Coaching
2.	Centre for Public Management workshops - group based
The Stephenson Group: one-on-one

3.	44

4.	1155

5.	$130,000

6.	Complete Package

7.		i.	Bowral - Teams and Leadership & Leadership to Management (CPM)
Sydney - Executive Coaching
ii.	Bowral - various
Executive Coaching - 1
iii.	1155 hours

Sydney Harbour Federation Trust
(a)	There has been no expenditure by the SHFT on executive coaching and/or other leadership training services during the period in question.

(b)	All employees are able to apply to SHFT management to attend courses at an appropriate level

(c)	Nil

(d)	Nil

(e)  1 - 7	Nil

Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator
(a)	There has been no expenditure by the ORER on executive coaching and/or other leadership training services during the period in question (please note that ORER became a separate entity on 1 July 2003 and we do not have access to records prior to this date).

(b)	All employees are able to apply to ORER management to attend courses at an appropriate level

(c)	Nil

(d)	Nil

(e) 1–7	Nil