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Strategic action mentoring
Strategic action mentoring offers the opportunity for personal and professional growth through a constructive partnership between a mentor and mentee. Mentoring offers a time and place for reflective conversations that result in exploring practice,...
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Facilitation: making things easier
If we go to a dictionary and look for the original meaning of the word "facilitate" we will find that to facilitate is "to render easier; to promote; to help forward; to lesson the labour of..." As facilitators we work with groups to make processes and decisions...
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Project management – the planning framework
Project management is a structured way of achieving goals for change and innovation. Project management is about managing a one-off endeavour that delivers specific outcomes to a particular standard or quality over a pre-determined period of time using a...
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Key terms for strategic planning
It is critical that when we are conducting strategic planning we all have a clear understanding of what the key terms mean. Mission describes core business and broad purpose of the organisation Values are the principles by which the organisation works. Values...
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Action learning
Action learning is a term applied to a formal learning process that is derived from the fundamental way humans learn – from experience. A classic example of experiential learning is children learning how to speak. They are immersed in a world of language from...
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Creating project team identity using appreciative enquiry
Recently in a post on the Australian Facilitators’ Network discussion forum there was a question about how to create a sense of team identity. I rather liked the response from John Loty who outlined an appreciative enquiry approach. Thanks John! www.johnloty.com...
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The strategic planning process
Strategic planning is an imaginative process underpinned by practical down-to-earth thinking. It allows us to visualise the possible, confirm what is important for us, and do reality checks on dreams. We bring the real world of data to bear on sometimes fantastical...
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Fran Peavey’s strategic questioning
Fran Peavey’s chapter on strategic questioning is one of the best descriptions and instructions on the questions and the sequence of questioning facilitators can use to get people to think and act imaginatively and strategically. I think this was written in the...
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Work mapping and planning
I used to do this activity with some of my coaching clients from time to time. It is certainly something you can do on your own, but also worthwhile adapting this to team planning. Allow one hour for this activity, so read through the...
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ORID: A simple method for reflection
There are many ways in which one can engage in reflective practice. A useful and structured process is the ORID method – Objective, Reflective, Interpretive, and Decisional. The ORID method is a structure for effective reflection for individuals or groups with or...
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Project planning checklist
Here is a list of questions that will assist you with project planning. I always tell clients to allow for a significant amount of time for planning and yet people still rush into doing without mapping out all the actions and times. I figure 20% of your total project...
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Embedding scholarly practice and critical reflection in work-based projects
This framework for engaging learners in scholarly practice developed as part of my work designing Associate Degrees where there are two possible graduate outcomes: employment in a relevant industry or further study usually in Bachelor Degrees. This makes the Associate...
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