Archive for December, 2008
Mental Floss (112)
Posted by webmaster 29 December 2008
Well done to Jack Hanson of VicPol who responded with: The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed over 80% of the city, but only killed six people. The population were thankful because the fire saved 1000’s of lives by helping to put an end to the spread of the Black Plague in the area. [...]
As the year draws to a close …
Posted by webmaster 21 December 2008The CIN would like to thanks members for their active support and participation over the course of 2008. The year has seen a record number of events run with membership now up to 3300.
A number of significant initiatives and activities are planned for 2009 and we look forward to working with members on a range [...]
Mental Floss (111)
Posted by webmaster 21 December 2008Well done to Kath Ballard of Human Services who correctly responded with: 1 and 2 walk together. 1 returns. Only 3 minutes have passed and there are already two people through. Now 3 and 4 walk through, using 4 minutes, 2 runs back and takes 1 and they both walk through the tunnel. Only 12 [...]
A CIN Christmas with Troy & Zara
Posted by webmaster 18 December 2008After a year of wonderfully diverse seminars and workshops, the VPS Continuous Improvement Network held a special Christmas seminar, which was truly uplifting. The seminar, presented by Troy and Zara from HumourAustralia focussed on the significance of happiness in our lives and the role that humour plays in that.
Opening with “It’s been a big year, [...]
It couldn’t possibly happen here
Posted by webmaster 16 December 2008In the year 2008, the Lord came unto Noah, (who was now living in Melbourne) and said, ‘Once again, the earth has become wicked and over-populated, and I see the end of all flesh before me. Build another Ark and save 2 of every living thing along with a few good humans’ He gave Noah [...]
“Resilient Leadership” Second Session
Posted by webmaster 15 December 2008
On Dec 15, twenty five VPS staff completed a four hour session on Leadership Resilience with Wayne Jencke of Innate Intelligence.
In this workshop the group explored the concept of resilience which was described as “the ability to minimise and reduce the impact of adversity” and how this relates to resilient leadership which involves the capacity [...]
The Winners
Posted by webmaster 14 December 2008
Congratulations to the following new CIN members who have now each been drawn to win a book from a range of our CIN speakers, including Edward de Bono, Tony Buzan, John Silvester, Andrew Jobling and Arthur Shelley.
Caroline Nadj (DPCD)
Lee-Anne Bowles (DOT)
Carole Micallef (DPCD)
Robyn McIntyre (VicPol)
Gabrielle Grant (DSE)
Jenny Taalman (DPCD)
Lucy Barrow (DIIRD)
Herbert Vargas (DOJ)
Virginia Cox (DSE)
Kay [...]
Live Lean & Live Stronger Session 2
Posted by webmaster 14 December 2008VPS staff from across Govt today met for the second of Andrew Jobling’s popular workshops on making a serious difference to, not only our health and vitality, but how we think about it.
Andrew’s approach to health and nutrition starts with our own intrinsic motivation, being motivated externally is fine is the short term but for [...]
Mental Floss (110)
Posted by webmaster 13 December 2008Congratulations to Richard Chapman of Human Services who responded with: The 1st dwarf enters and takes his place. The 2nd enters and stands next to him. The third enters, see two dwarves with the same coloured caps and stands next to them or sees two different coloured caps and stands between them. The 4th enters [...]
Turning an idea into action
Posted by webmaster 10 December 2008Have you ever walked around your office building and seen desks that have dusty piles of rolled up butcher paper covered in post it notes with lots and lots of ideas on them ? We’re not too bad a generating ideas but our follow through to implementation is poor. Innovation is about implementing good ideas [...]
DSE & VicPol working in parallel
Posted by webmaster 9 December 2008On Nov 27 staff from Sustainability & Environment and Victoria Police got together and practiced a range of thinking skills designed to improve communication and collaborative effort.
The group of 12 looked at the parallel thinking of the Six Thinking Hats and road tested one of the lateral thinking tools as a part of the process. [...]
“Live Lean & Live Strong” workshop places
Posted by webmaster 9 December 2008As we have (yet again) a number of members register to attend this event before deciding to withdraw, or fail to acknowledge any subsequent correspondence, we have 6 places available for members who would genuinely like to participate and benefit from the workshop this Friday.
For a review of Andrew’s previous session, click here.
If you would [...]
Resilient Leadership Workshop
Posted by webmaster 9 December 2008Last Friday, a number of people from across the Victorian Public Service met to explore the issue of Resilient Leadership with Wayne Jenke from Innate Intelligence.
Wayne encouraged us to think about our strengths and virtues and those of others and how we could build on those to be the best we could be. He also [...]
Rapid Reading Session Three
Posted by webmaster 9 December 2008On Dec 2, 25 VPS staff attended the 3rd Rapid Reading session conducted by Richard Yiap.
During this session Richard took the group through a number of different ways to increase not only reading speed, but also the levels at which we connect with the reading material, including:
Recall – Being able to remember what we have [...]