Archive for July, 2008
Mental Floss (91)
Posted by webmaster 31 July 2008Well done to Paul Turner of Planning & Community Development who responded with: This is part of the story of Oedipus, who replied to the Sphinx “man in early childhood crawls on all fours, in manhood he walks erect on two and in old age with the aid of a staff.” Morning, Day and Evening [...]
No time to think
Posted by webmaster 31 July 2008An interesting piece from the BBC site sent to us by Malcolm Feiner of the Corrections Victoria Resource Centre, which discusses the importance of taking some time out each day to relax and do some thinking. Our days tend to be getting busier from start to finish, our schedules keep us so occupied there doesn’t [...]
Better use of public information
Posted by webmaster 30 July 2008With Community Engagement / Citizen Centered Engagement hot topics within the VPS at the moment we thought this site from the Cabinet Office in the UK was quite an interesting one.
The “Show us a better way” site offers citizens a reward of up to $50,000 for ideas that will make better use of public information, [...]
CI Tools – Logframes
Posted by webmaster 30 July 2008A logframe or Logical Framework approach provides a structured and logical means for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programmes, projects and workplans. They are very useful in providing mental prompts to help separate goals, purpose, outputs and activities.
The logframe also helps to ensure that the purpose is within reach (i.e. specific, measureable, achievable, realistic and [...]
The connection between our physiology and our emotions
Posted by webmaster 30 July 2008In our recent “Leader as Coach” workshops, a number of the participants asked about the link between our physiology and our emotions. this was in the context of providing an explanation of why subtle changes to our posture and breathing can have a positive impact on our emotions, and our capacity to handle stressful situations.
Research [...]
CI Tools – Word Clouds
Posted by webmaster 29 July 2008The graphic above is a “word cloud” that has been extracted from a random sample of the CIN evaluation via narrative capture in 2007. These clouds give greater prominence to the words that appear more frequently in the source text you provide. The more often a word appears, the bigger it is in the cloud.
While [...]
Mental Floss (90)
Posted by webmaster 25 July 2008Well done to Philip Oude-Vrielink of Human Services who said: The “replacement” tea was sweet from the sugar that she had already placed in it prior to noticing the fly. This week’s question is:
In classic mythology there is the story of the Sphinx, a creature with the body of a lion and the upper part [...]
Effective online collaboration with Michael Sampson
Posted by webmaster 24 July 2008On July 23 the CIN, in partnership with the Melb KMLF an the KM Round Table, presented Michael Sampson speaking on the some of the challenges and strategies associated with collaborating in an online environment.
The session covered four main themes:
How do you get your IT and corporate communications people to support social software ? Given [...]
Network Narrative (13)
Posted by webmaster 24 July 2008Narrative from the CIN evaluation survey 2007
I’m more resilient: There has been no distinct applications at this stage but knowing that I have absorbed a lot of new learnings I feel better equipped to handle the challenges we are having thrown at us daily. As an example I applied some of the resilience principles we [...]
CI Tools – C&S
Posted by webmaster 23 July 2008The C&S or Consequence and Sequel tool is one of the DATT suite – a series of shorthand commands for complex undertakings. The C&S helps us to make a deliberate effort to consider the consequences of an action or decision. The C&S is a primarily an evaluation tool, but can also used in prediction and [...]
HR benchmarking opportunity
Posted by webmaster 22 July 2008The American Productivity and Quality Centre (APQC) has invited the VPS via our Benchmarking Community, to participate in a human resources benchmarking exercise. Upon conclusion each participating department would receive a benchmarking results report. This report will draw on a global database to provide comparisons for each department with other public sector organisations and the [...]
What do the world’s greatest managers do differently ?
Posted by webmaster 22 July 2008The link below was recently sent into us from two entirely different sources. The first, Jane Woodman of VicPol and the second Luke Naismith of Justice and KnowledgeFutures fame who is temporarily residing in far flung Dubai. When two such thought leaders send us the same link from opposite sides of the world it is [...]
Mental Floss (89)
Posted by webmaster 18 July 2008Well done to Colette Corr of Justice who responded with: Ask one security guard, “If I ask the other security guard which is the door to the innovative unit, what will he say?” If you’ve asked the dishonest guard, she’ll turn the response of a truthful one into a false one and point to the [...]
An invite to “Putting the citizen at the centre” seminar series
Posted by webmaster 18 July 2008You are invited to attend the first in a series of breakfast seminars focussing on the trend towards a more citizen-centred approach to service delivery which will be held on the morning of July 29.
The seminar will feature Siobhan McHale fron the ANZ and Rodney McKail from Knox City Council. Both speakers will share their [...]