Archive for 'Resources' Category

Facilitating Skills Booklet

CIN presenter Andrew Rixon of Babelfishgroup has produced this handy guide for facilitators titled Facilitation Essentials: Inspiring Teams and Engaging Leadership. To download the booklet click on the title and follow the links.

Buzan Seminar DVD

To mark the 2nd birthday of this website and co-inciding 500th article, the CIN has 20 x DVD copies of our luncheon session with Tony Buzan from Feb 20 to give away to members. The high quality DVD runs for over an hour and includes Tony’s ppt presentation and a session introduction by Deputy Commissioner of [...]

Healthy Eating and Farmer’s Markets

Earlier this month Sherry Strong treated us to a great session where she spoke of healthier lifestyle and eating habits. One of the things spoken about were the Farmer’s Markets where you can source healthy and fresh whole-food.
In the document attached Sherry has provided us with:
* A list of Farmer’s Markets across Melbourne,
* A list [...]

Learn to Juggle – it’s good for you !

It’s official, juggling is no longer just a party trick, it can be good for you in a number of ways. 
When you first learn to juggle you are using what is referred to as the left brain, i.e. logical, analytical and narrowly focussed. Once you have learned how to juggle, you engage the right brain, the [...]

Continuous Improvement – a hands on guide for the VPS

Given this 2003 VPS Continuous Improvement Network publication is now difficult to source in hard copy, we have now placed it as a resource for download on this site (see link below.) This hands on guide aims to help you make some sense of the contemporary field of continuous improvement. It is for leaders, managers and [...]

The Ultimate Guide to Anecdote Circles

Narrative, stories and anecdotes are playing an increasingly important role in organisations.
Anecdote circles are a narrative technique like focus groups, except unlike focus groups, they’re facilitated to elicit stories rather than judgement and opinion. The collected stories can reveal what is really happening in your organisation and what people value. They are a powerful tool to [...]