Readings and exercises for the Strategic Skills for Emerging Leaders program. This page is for the Co-creating the future session on 10 November 2020. Session outline Facilitated discussion: visualising and refining your own strategy Suggested reading Christine Locher (2020) Reporting requirements: none Peter C Baker (2020) We can't go back to normal Simon Terry (2020) …
Complexity and decision-making
Readings and exercises for the Strategic Skills for Emerging Leaders program. This page is for the Complexity and decision-making session on 27 October 2020. Session outline Facilitated discussion: growth mindset Presentation: co-creating the future Suggested reading for 27 October Jason Clarke (2020) How to see a way forward Learning preferences (from our first session) Unconscious …
Ideas and opportunities
Readings and exercises for the Strategic Skills for Emerging Leaders program. This page is for the Ideas and opportunities session on 13 October 2020. Session outline Facilitated discussion: feedback on the diamond diagram exercise; filtering and evaluating ideas; risk and failure Presentation: complexity and decision-making Evaluating ideas and opportunities Jason Clarke (2016) Hazard ahead (a short …
A little bit of awesome
The ATEM Friday Retro meeting on 2 October 2020 was a bit different from the usual. We started with a live video cross to an office building on Collins Street in Melbourne's CBD, where three peregrine falcon chicks were hatching. How lucky that we were meeting via Zoom - otherwise we would have missed it! …
Strategic Skills program launch
Reading and resources for the kick-off session of Strategic Skills for Emerging Leaders held on 18 August 2020. Session outline Facilitated discussion: introductions and getting to know each other; setting expectations - what we want from this program, how it works; understanding our individual and group learning preferences Learning preferences Charles Jennings describes four ways …
Resources for the Strategic Skills program
Readings and exercises for the Strategic Skills for Emerging Leaders program in 2020, grouped by topic: Program launch (kick-off session) 18 August 2020 Lessons from lockdown - 1 September Learning as we go - 15 September Leadership journal - 29 September Ideas and opportunities - 13 October Complexity and decision-making - 27 October Co-creating the …
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Adapting the Agile retro model
You may already be familiar with Agile methodology, which is where the ‘retro’ or ‘retrospective’ format comes from. In an Agile project team you would normally meet at the end of a sprint – a specific piece of work – to review the team’s performance and progress. But our Friday Retro program doesn't quite fit …
Friday Retro kicks off
A few weeks ago I posted a crazy idea - what if we could run an Agile-style retrospective ('retro') meeting for a group of strangers from many different workplaces? Could it work? Would it help people to navigate this period of upheaval? Today Sally Newton and I hosted the first Friday Retro for members of …
Clarity and focus in 30 minutes per fortnight
Good news for friends and colleagues in the tertiary education sector - Triangle Consulting and the Association for Tertiary Education Management are offering the Friday Retro program free for ATEM members. Starting on Friday 15 May, this get-together will run fortnightly until the end of November 2020. Our 13 April blog post describes the concept …
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