Integrated Leadership System (ILS)
The ILS provides capability development guidance for individuals and agencies in the form of descriptions and behaviours for all levels in the APS. It contains practical tools for individuals and agencies to chart leadership development.
The ILS is flexible and offers agencies across the public service and leadership pathway suited to their particular contexts and challenges.
Access the ILS and ILS resources
The ILS is split into two guides and a collection of resources:
What is the ILS?
The ILS is based on and expands the SELC framework around five core capability clusters contains guides and tools to assist in professional development, capability planning and agency succession management. These include:
- APS Leadership model - The APS Leadership model assists agencies and individuals to address their particular requirements for leadership, management and technical expertise.
- Leadership pathway - The Leadership Pathway identifies and describes leadership capabilities at executive and senior levels. It illustrates the levels of complexity in which the APS operates and identifies new behavioural elements for leaders at each stage of their career path.
- Support tools - Practical tools have been developed to assist individuals, leaders and HR practitioners. Agencies and individuals will select those tools that suit their requirements and particular contexts.
- Programs - Outlines information on leadership, learning and development programmes
Who will use the ILS?
Individuals will use the ILS to guide their own development when:
- Seeking to be more effective at their current level
- Aspiring to leadership positions at executive and senior executive levels
- Transitioning to a new role or level
View the self assessment forms for APS3 - SES B3 roles.
HR practitioners and managers will use the ILS to
- Coordinate leadership opportunities
- Understand bench strength
- Support individual career planning
Leadership Pathway
The Leadership Pathway identifies and describes leadership capabilities that stem from the Senior Executive Leadership Capability Framework (SELC). It outlines behavioural elements for leaders at each stage of their career path.
The Pathway is intended as a guide-the Pathway's descriptions and behaviours are level specific rather than job specific. The Pathway may be applied differently by agencies depending on size and location. Differences will occur between roles and agencies and the Pathway can be applied differently depending on the agency size and location.
The Pathway is a cumulative model, with behaviours identified at one level becoming the 'floor level' for the levels above. There are complex, subtle differences across the levels.
The Pathway is presented in two different ways:
- A comparative view of capability changes across the levels. This view scans across the levels to identify the changes in capability at each level.
- Individual profiles of capability that would be expected at a particular level.
Comparative view
The comparative view scans across the levels to identify the changes in capability at each level.
In the Pathway, those capabilities where new behaviours have been introduced are shown in bold, while increased complexity is shown in italics.
Individual profiles
The Pathway defines a profile for each level from EL1 to SES B3. The profiles complement agency specific capabilities and individual job requirements. Individuals may use the profile as a guide to identify areas of strength and areas for development. The profiles enable a complete view of the capabilities that would be expected at a particular level.
The profiles do not contain any mandatory requirements but are a tool to assist individuals to identify development needs and options.
Support tools
Practical support tools have been developed to assist individuals, leaders and Human Resource practitioners apply the descriptions and behaviours described in the Leadership Pathway, including
- Layers of complexity-describes the increasing layers of complexity as roles change.
- Critical transition points-have been identified for each capability across the various levels and are points where new behaviours have been introduced.
- Leadership capability development planning -this document is intended to be used in conjunction with the ILS and provides further tools and resources to assist individuals assess their capability requirements, align learning with business needs, identify appropriate development strategies and formulate a capability development plan.
- Thematic papers-provides further information about organisational culture themes which were consistently raised as key challenges during the research phase of the developing the ILS.