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Chris Grieve What's your hedgehog factor?

My new post on my blog: The View From Zero Degrees.


How might your hedgehog factor influence the way you participate in teams and contribute (or otherwise) the effectiveness of teamwork?

http://meridianprime.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/whats-your-hedgehog-factor-2/

Added by Chris Grieve on December 5, 2011 at 11:10am — No Comments

Lindsay Ryan Corporate Education Newsletter

Hello Everyone

David thought you might be interested in reading my most recent newsletter - Corporate Education Insight. It gives an insight into some of my thinking and research relating to corporate education and organisation development, as well as some key issues/trends developing in the Australian workforce.

Please note, it is the 'Spring' edition in Australia:…

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Added by Lindsay Ryan on December 5, 2010 at 11:39pm — No Comments

Penny Walker What are the chances that I'll fall off a ladder?

I was reminded horribly of our different attitudes to risk a few days ago, when we were roused just after 7.00 by a strange sound.



Turns out the wonderful man who's been cleaning windows in our street for over 15 years had fallen while washing our neighbour's windows.



A--- was lying there in next-door's front garden, his arm bent rather alarmingly under him.…

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Added by Penny Walker on October 29, 2010 at 10:01am — No Comments

paul maisey Problem Solving and Action Learning

As we wait for the details of the Comprehensive Spending Review it is clear that government departments, firms and individuals will have to respond and adapt to “new “ challenges. Here I suggest a way to tackle this, a methodology , that combines ideas from Action Learning (Reg Revans) with the…

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Added by paul maisey on October 19, 2010 at 7:43am — 1 Comment

Penny Walker Making my work a no-fly zone

Last time I flew for work was in 2007, running a workshop in the Netherlands. I had tried to find a way to go by boat and train, but couldn’t make the timings fit in with other commitments. The last time I flew for pleasure was so long ago that I can’t remember.



I have turned down all work that involves flying since then, but without being up-front about this. I say I’m unavailable or “I’m sure…

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Added by Penny Walker on September 21, 2010 at 8:55am — No Comments

paul maisey A 4 Step Leadership Success Model

1) A four step checklist for leadership success. How would you/your team rate your performance ?…

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Added by paul maisey on August 11, 2010 at 4:15am — No Comments

Penny Walker Tasting the Future: tangy fresh process

As you may have noticed, I’m a process aficionado.



I love to hear about innovative ways of helping people have the conversations they need. I love to try out new processes as a facilitator and a participant. I network with fellow facilitators

through AMED as well as the IAF and a facilitators’ group on linked-in. I read about unorthodox approaches, and…

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Added by Penny Walker on July 2, 2010 at 5:21am — 2 Comments

Bruce Cornock Nixon These important newsletters may interest you.

Hi All,

These important newsletters may interest you.

Bruce



From: iifning@googlemail.com [mailto:iifning@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Eve Mitchell, Coordinator - GM Freeze

Sent: 20 May 2010 17:54

To: Pete Riley

Subject: Syn-bio organisms need public scrutiny and controls – Call for immediate moratorium



Immediate release 20 May 2010

Syn-bio organisms need public scrutiny and controls – Call for immediate moratorium

The announcement from… Continue

Added by Bruce Cornock Nixon on June 7, 2010 at 7:25am — No Comments

Paul Z Jackson What makes a network successful?

I've been studying more and less successful networks to identify what works well. We discussed this topic at the recent St Albans AMED gathering. And these seem to be some of the characteristics:…

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Added by Paul Z Jackson on March 27, 2010 at 4:05am — 3 Comments

paul maisey Why Creativity is Going Green

As individuals and firms look for a competitive edge we are all urged to be more innovative and creative. Yet there are many myths around creativity that sometimes make it hard to know what works. Read on for fun creative ideas that are proven both practically and scientifically.…

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Added by paul maisey on February 26, 2010 at 7:47am — No Comments

Penny Walker Dancing with preparation and responsiveness

Frequently, my work involves large group workshops and teams of willing volunteers acting as support facilitators. They may be drawn from the client team or from the wider consultant team. They are often technical specialists or traditional communications specialists, and sometimes – but not always - they have facilitation experience.



In a recent workshop, I was faced with quite a challenge:



* Up to 50 participants who we’d invited to help with the larger project;

* A… Continue

Added by Penny Walker on January 25, 2010 at 4:37am — No Comments

henry hardoon Business Accountz Independent Review by Henry Hardoon FCCA

Business Accountz Independent Review by Henry Hardoon FCCA

The Company was founded in Cambridge

in 1985 and started trading as Apricote Studios specialising in Music

and Business software and produced the Account Book in 1987 for the

Acorn BBC B.



In 1999 development work commenced

on the architecture of Accountz for business and in the 2009 December

issue of Computer Shopper Magazine the software gained a Best Business

Buy Award (five stars) for… Continue

Added by henry hardoon on January 22, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments

Belina Raffy Getting a Monkey off My Back: A Small Shift in Using My Business Resources More Intelligently

For the past six months, I've been writing notes to myself to review and probably close my Survey Monkey account. I opened my 'paid for' account in July 2008 with the thought that I would create lots of great surveys that would enhance my business and I've been dutifully paying the $29.90/month (or what ever that's worked out to with the $/£ exchange rate). With all of the energy I keep using to remember that I need to review my account and writing myself a note - I could have sorted this out… Continue

Added by Belina Raffy on January 10, 2010 at 5:50am — 1 Comment

Rachael West Reclaiming the right to play: creativity and collaboration for engineers..Conference July 2010

Hi all



I'm organising a conference for the middle of this year around the themes of creativity and collaboration, focusing on the engineering and built environment sector. The intention is to create an experiential opportunity for those involved in the industry (and those who may not be directly involved) to feel a truly collaborative and creative project.



Key themes:



Reclaiming the right to play. We see the necessity and then 'get' how to do it - without the… Continue

Added by Rachael West on January 6, 2010 at 9:20am — 5 Comments

paul maisey How to achieve your New Year resolutions 2010

With just 2 years to go to the Olympics athletes know the challenge ahead! To be part of it (let alone winning medals ) will involve years of dedication and practice with a very clear and specific dream to be achieved. Assuming athletes are human (!! ) then maybe we can be successful by using the following techniques..

1. Ensure your outcome is positively stated

As there is a tendency to get what you focus on ensure that your focus is a positive one!

Answer the question “what do… Continue

Added by paul maisey on December 31, 2009 at 8:53am — No Comments

paul maisey Shaping the Future : Leadership 2020

Great Leaders of the future will be adaptable, empowering, diverse, customer focussed and emotionally intelligent. These were the conclusions from a meeting of 20 MBA graduates (South West Alumni Network) hosted by the Open Business School and run by Paul Maisey of Buffin Leadership International.



After discussing known trends such as economic globalisation, demographic changes and the impact of technology the group went on to create their own model of what great leadership would be… Continue

Added by paul maisey on December 9, 2009 at 6:28am — 3 Comments

Penny Walker What is the job of a river?

Over the last few years, a new way of looking at big plans, policy shifts and projects is to analyse them from the perspective of ecosystem services.



We all rely on ecosystem services, whether we like it or not - and whether we know it or not. We all eat food. We all drink water. We all breathe air. Mostly, in a country like the UK, we just don’t realise that these are ecosystem services – to most of us, carrots come from the supermarket, not an ecosystem.



In the… Continue

Added by Penny Walker on November 9, 2009 at 2:17am — No Comments

Danielle Tarren Social Networking - Employment Pitfalls in the Internet Age

Social networking plays a large part in modern society, but how far can employers go in monitoring the internet use of their workers and potential employees? Local employment solicitors at EmploymentLawHelp are urging employers to be cautious when delving onto sites such as Facebook or MySpace and are advising them to follow simple guidelines in order to avoid a networking… Continue

Added by Danielle Tarren on October 19, 2009 at 5:18am — No Comments

Dave Ramsey Organization Problem Solving - Converting Technical Methods to Behavioral Methodlogy.

One of the many activities that I am involved in is the spread of TRIZ. TRIZ is the Russian acronym for the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.



In the 1950's a group of Russians, led by Genrich Altshuller developed a methodlogy for solving problems. Based upon a rigorous study of patents, Altshuller determined how technical problems were solved. Based upon the determinations, he categorized the methods into a series of Inventive Pronciples and the operators that make the principle… Continue

Added by Dave Ramsey on September 30, 2009 at 8:46am — 4 Comments

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Added by Joanne Milne on September 29, 2009 at 3:34am — 2 Comments

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