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Tribunal craft for VCAT.

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Friday 14th November 2025

Full Day EVENT | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM

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​​Advance your ability to communicate effectively with tribunal users and manage your tribunal room – even in testing circumstances – in this full-day program for VCAT.

​​In this skills-based program, you will have the opportunity to consolidate and advance your existing tribunal-room communication skills. Experienced coaches will guide you through interactive exercises that will expand your tribunal craft to meet and overcome challenges specific to VCAT.  

​You will be supported to:   

  • ​develop your tribunal-hearing management style and presence  
  • ​enhance your verbal and non-verbal communication skills  
  • ​learn strategies for navigating difficult people and situations in your tribunal room.  ​  

This program is open to VCAT only.  ​

Speakers.

Seedling Leadership
Simon Wood

Simon is the Director and Founder of Seedling Leadership. He has been helping organisations and individuals build their leadership, sales, and customer service strength for nearly twenty years. Proven results, a client focus, and a love of learning enables him to deliver tailored, nuanced, and effective end-to-end solutions, from consultation, facilitation, and design through to delivering training and coaching. Simon’s background in psychology and coaching enables him to think critically and to design learning programs based on evidence; his performance background enables him to communicate persuasively and deliver strongly in the room; and his business experience enables him to adapt to different contexts quickly.

Seedling Leadership
Raj Sidhu

Raj works in the corporate and business sector as a teacher, facilitator, and actor. He designs and delivers programs in leadership presence, communication strategy, leadership capability, behavioural insight and culture change, diversity and unconscious bias, conflict resolution, strategic thinking and planning, sales development, media coaching and presentation skills. He is a co-founder and company director of RealPlay Media and a pioneer in Theatre in Business in Australia along with Grant Dodwell. Raj studied sociology, psychology, drama and philosophy at Flinders University and has a degree in Performance as a NIDA graduate. Raj is a certified consultant and trainer in Human Synergistic LSI and OCI tools and has been providing group and individual executive coaching to DISC, MBTI, Decision Dynamics, and other psychometric insight tools over the past 21 years.