Topics
- Inspiring Brave and Creative Thinking is Serious Business!
- Change and Culture: Introducing UGRs®
- Flexibility, agility and responsiveness: The new TAFE mantra
- The Power of Humour
Inspiring Brave and Creative Thinking is Serious Business!
Susan Mackie
Traditional analysis and judgement are insufficient to deal with a constantly changing world. We need collaborative and creative thinking.
Collaborative thinking is the process that drives positive and productive results. Thus it is one of the most important components for organisations to develop and grow. It leads to focused problem solving, planning and decision making. It makes and brings about productive and effective outcomes. It enables new opportunities, strategies and ideas to be formed.
Traditional thinking is about criticism, judgement and debate. Innovative thinking is about reacting to a changing world and using our greatest asset – our ability to think – in an effective and powerful way.
Inspiring brave and creative ideas is a serious business. Innovation, design and creativity can be a deliberate process – achieved through the deliberate and systematic use of thinking tools.
The talk challenges misconceptions about the nature of creativity and inspires those present to consider themselves as thinkers and innovators.
This presentation addresses the need for clear thinking, creativity and innovation by explaining the theory and practice of tailor-made thinking tools.
Change and Culture: Introducing UGRs®
Steve Simpson
There’s little doubt that Southbank Institute has undergone fundamental and wide ranging change in recent times. This presentation, by international speaker Steve Simpson, will put the change into perspective – he will share how team and organisational culture impact on change, and how the concept of UGRs (unwritten ground rules) can be used to understand the current culture. Importantly, Steve will show how UGRs can be used to help mould the kind of culture that we would most like to characterise the organisation. You will gain fascinating insights from recent work Steve has undertaken with various organisations in looking at their change culture.
Flexibility, agility and responsiveness: The new TAFE mantra
Berwyn Clayton
Current literature on organizations tells us that to successfully meet the demands of our ever-changing environment; training providers will need to be flexible, adaptable, agile and responsive. Teamwork and other structural innovations that overcome the limitations of the traditional bureaucratic form are seen as key to successful organizational performance. In concert with changing views of structure, the focus of organisational change is moving from ‘planning change’ to ‘facilitating emergence of change’- transforming cultures rather than conforming or reforming them. This presentation reports on some of the findings from the consortium research program Supporting VET providers in building capability for the future. It will set out how a number RTOs are adapting their structures and transforming their cultures to enhance their organizational capability and better meet the needs of their diverse clients.
The Power of Humour
Kerry Cue
Kerry is a strong believer in the power of humour to unclutter the mind, unburden the heart and revitalise our passion for work, love and life.
Her presentation will entertain and inspire!
*Kerry Cue appears by arrangement with Saxton Management Group Pty Ltd
Last updated 30 May, 2008