Archive for April, 2008
Mental Floss (76)
Posted by webmaster 28 April 2008
Well done to Eleanor Li of Treasury & Finance who responded with : The button for the ground floor. All of the tenants must not only go up, but also down. This week’s question is:
What took nineteen years to get into itself ?
The 1st CIN member in with the correct answer using the comments [...]
Facilitating with Confidence
Posted by webmaster 28 April 2008If you are fair dinkum about learning to facilitate, here are the details of a programme run by two of Australia’s best facilitation trainers, Viv McWaters and Anne Pattillo.
These Facilitating with Confidence sessions are broken up into three lots of two days and are designed to build significant skills and confidence in working with groups, [...]
Be at the Nexus of practice & research
Posted by webmaster 23 April 2008The Nexus Conference is not just about policing. It is about how organisations link their own practice to research through the ARC Linkage Grants.
The conference presentations on the research programmes involve:
Assisting the mentally ill,
Forensic interviewing of children to ensure the welfare of the child is maintained,
Victim and witness support,
Family violence reform,
Adult sexual assault, and
Resettlement of [...]
Executive women’s stories
Posted by webmaster 23 April 2008BabelFishGroup have launched a project to invite the stories of executive women.
With story telling being able to do what surveys can’t – portray a depth and breadth of emotion, imagination and humanity – they are seeking out executive women’s stories around “miracles and nasty surprises in organisational development and change.”
The project has the support of [...]
Mental Floss (75)
Posted by webmaster 23 April 2008Well done to Lee Casey of Sustainability & Environment who responded with: If it’s a pit there will be no earth in it. This week’s question is:
One tenant lives on the first floor of a 15 floor apartment block. The numbers of tenants living on each successive floor is double that of the previous one. [...]
Network Narrative (6)
Posted by webmaster 23 April 2008
Narrative taken from the CIN Impact Evaluation 2007.
A life-line of information: The CIN site has been useful as being in the Latrobe Valley we now have an additional life-line to what is going on in the big smoke. Not only do we learn from our own department, but from what is happening in others [...]
The Five Literacies of Global Leadership with Richard Hames
Posted by webmaster 21 April 2008Today 280 CIN members attended a seminar hosted by network Chair Christine Nixon, featuring Richard Hames discussing “The Five Literacies of Global Leadership.”
The five literacies are predicated by two powerful thoughts:
1) That we may well become extinct as a race in a relatively short period of time given our current environmental and economic practices unless [...]
The Leader as Coach Workshop Reprised
Posted by webmaster 21 April 2008We have now scheduled a second “Leader as Coach” workshop for July 11.
Due to the strong demand for the first workshop which will be facilitated by Alan Seiler and Mark Raymond, we now have sufficient participants to fill two workshops. Details for the second 2nd workshop are as follows:
Where: Airlie Leadership Development Centre, 260 Domain [...]
A Global Perspective
Posted by webmaster 20 April 2008These types of powerpoint presentation pop into our inboxes on a regular basis. You know the type, with great pictures and uplifting messages often asking you to forward them on to five friends to share the love.
Normally they’d be read and consigned to the recycle bin but we thought this one was worth posting.
It is [...]
Live Lean & Live Strong with Andrew Jobling
Posted by webmaster 18 April 2008A former AFL footballer with St Kilda and now a experienced consultant on health and fitness, Andrew shared a number of his experiences and insights on how to get fitter and healthier with a balanced longer term view, as opposed to the usual faddish short term fixes which almost invariably fail. … The interventions were then quantified in terms of calories expended as a demonstrator of how simple and common sense practices can improve our health with a longer term view. Apr18.ppt” title=”Apr18.ppt”>Apr18.ppt Other key messages from the session were: * Get your thinking and motivation right about your health, then organise your lifestyle to allow time and space to get healthy, then eating the right things and exercise.
A sting in the tail …
Posted by webmaster 17 April 2008What do a robotic toy scorpion and a baked potatoe snack have in common ?
Both are products developed through open innovation , the process by which organisations use external expert’s ideas, and share their own in-house assets and know how.
Danish firm LEGO traditionally held its product development practices close to its chest. Now the firm [...]
An invitation to “The Leader as a Coach” Workshop
Posted by webmaster 16 April 2008There is a great need for managers to be excellent communicators and to develop high trust relationships, in order to achieve their objectives and retain their people. Managers are also increasingly expected to foster collaboration and innovate.
The CIN invites you to a workshop designed for managers Grades VPS5 and up and L&D professionals who want [...]
An invite to sustaining an ethical culture
Posted by webmaster 15 April 2008You are invited to attend a free seminar presented by the CIN and SSA, with Howard Whitton on May 8.
Howard is the Director of the Ethicos Group – a London based consortium of international specialists in the field of public sector ethics, integrity systems, anti-corruption policy, human resource development and whistle-blower protection – which he [...]
Minimising non-essential travel to meetings
Posted by webmaster 15 April 2008The Department of Human Services is implementing a multi-year continuous improvement project as a part of their Doing Business Better strategy which is aimed at working with their staff to identify means via which non-essential travel to meetings can be reduced.
The objectives of the project are to a) reduce wasted effort and non value adding [...]