How we’re connecting you

We’ve been elevating our sector by celebrating the best of what our council teams do and fostering connections between you and your peers.

That celebration has been particularly important. We’ve held a diverse array of awards programs, promoting their positive outcomes as useful case studies. We’ve also invited the professionals behind these initiatives to present their findings at our events and webinars for our sector’s collective growth.

Long distances can hamper connection, so we’ve consulted with rural, regional, and remote councils to ensure offerings like these are relevant and accessible to staff, wherever they are.

Over this time, we’ve increasingly made programs accessible both in-person and online while bringing more of them in-house to your workplaces. We’ve meanwhile brought our foundational workshops to regional centres to offer rural, regional, and remote council staff the opportunity to participate in face-to-face learning.

And not just face-to-face learning, but networking. We’ve been creating more opportunities for you to meet and share knowledge through our conferences, events, and increasingly frequent executive forums.

We’ve extended this networking into programs like Local Pathways, where we’ve connected new entrants to the sector with experienced mentors to foster the newest generation of council professionals. We’ve meanwhile introduced a formal process for engaging our leadership program alumni so that they can continue their connection and learning longer-term.

For our diverse specialists, we’ve invested more into our Special Interest Group network to address the issues facing the sector as they arise. We’ve added new communities to the growing list while introducing more feature-rich meeting platforms to strengthen our participants’ connection.

We’ve been diversifying and improving our engagement with valuable partners to our sector who support us in delivering high quality services.

We’ve leveraged the quality partnerships we’ve developed with subject matter experts in the LGPro Corporate Partner pool to deliver timely, insightful advice to you and your peers at times of crisis, during emergent issues, and as part of our events and programs.

As part of the way we advocate for you, our Board and executive have been regularly meeting with and writing to our sector’s key stakeholders whose decisions affect you, from our fellow peak bodies right up to State and Federal Governments.

We’ve been proactively engaging with organisations that can positively impact our sector and members. We’ve been working alongside Jobs Victoria, for example, to create local government jobs for distinct, diverse cohorts, from women over 45 to those at risk of long-term unemployment.