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Leadership Workshop
Due to the success of the IMPACT workshop held in October 2011, Anne Hartican of Bespoke Results and I are facilitating another workshop on March 20.Again it is being held at Melbourne’s boutique conference centre Airlie ( see image left) … Continue reading
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Tagged authority, coaching, complexity and hierachy, development, influence, power
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KM Asia
Recently at KM Asia in Singapore I co facilitated a workshop with Arthur Shelley from Intelligent Answers. We aimed at facilitating the workshop so the participants could develop an understanding of the use of metaphor through the Organizational Zoo (see … Continue reading
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Tagged behaviours, conversations, knowledge
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Narrative Research
Recently I was discussing the issue of narrative research at the KM Asia Conference in Singapore. Some years ago I was engaged in using the technique, albeit in a very raw form when I was evaluating a program I was … Continue reading
Posted in emergence, leadership, narrative research
Tagged change, complexity, innovative, knowledge
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Organisational Values and Behaviours
I recently facilitated a workshop for a client who was grappling with the issue of organisational values. In initial discussions we agreed that the values were meaningless if just posted on the wall as words. What one word means to … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, emergence, organisational culture, workshop
Tagged behaviours, values
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Leadership Workshop
IMPACT Influencing, Mastering Power, Authority, Control, Tactics a professional development opportunity Registrations are now open electronically for the IMPACT workshop on October 25. The workshop is being facilitated jointly by Bespoke Results and Creative Cognicion. It is a wonderful opportunity … Continue reading
Thinking More About Leadership
Recent events in an organisation I am only too familiar with have again set me thinking about leadership and the need to develop leaders who are empathic, emotionally intelligent and who recognise the worth and importance of the people within … Continue reading
Leadership Workshop
IMPACT Influencing, Mastering Power, Authority, Control, Tactics a professional development opportunity We live in complex and demanding times, and demands for leaders in organisations to be skilled and respond have never been greater. Organisations are complex social and political systems. … Continue reading
3 New Workshops
Creative Cognition is offering 3 new workshops. Influencing Are you often confronted with “No” as the first answer to your ideas? The Influencing workshops can assist you in having “Yes” said more often. The workshops use metaphor drawing on Organizational … Continue reading
“No You Can’t Do That”
Recently I have been coming across people who are finding the whole notion of getting their ideas knocked back really frustrating. The RMIT students I mentor were talking about it, people who are in big organisations are describing it to … Continue reading
Organisational Culture
Last week I attended a webinar that got me thinking. The focus of the webinar was organisational culture and the relationship of Unwritten Ground Rules (UGRs) and the locus of control. UGRs according to Steve Simpson are “the way we … Continue reading
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Tagged change, de Bono, thinking, unwritten ground rules
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