• Welcome to Spring!
• Make your high-stakes meetings and conferences effective
• Make our capital healthy and sustainable
• Tell them seven times seven
• Align your people to the strategy
• Global Learning's recent projects
• How leaders move from 'I' to 'We'...
• We like feedback

Welcome to Spring!
It's springtime and the flowers are blooming at the Floriade Festival, surrounding our head office here in Canberra. In this issue you'll find ways to make meetings and conferences more productive, tips about leading teams, and communicating more effectively. And you'll learn about some great events being held in the coming months.

Make your high-stakes meetings and conferences effective
We invite you to attend our 14 November 2008 breakfast workshop in Canberra and explore how our exciting new collaborative technology enables participants to rapidly capture the collective knowledge of teams in high-stakes meetings, conferences and workshops. Using our iMEET! platform, you'll discover how to sort, filter and rank ideas, and observe how quickly it builds trust in groups by documenting - in real time - the collective process. Learn how iMEET! can benefit your business (and banish butcher's paper forever!). Bookings accepted now: please contact Global Learning via the link below. [more...]

Make our capital healthy and sustainable
Do you have a passionate commitment to sustainability in Canberra? We invite you to join us in a networking event - ENACT FOR THE FUTURE - to regenerate the long-term health and sustainability of our region. We are hosting this inaugural gathering from 6:00pm to 8:30pm on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 to support existing initiatives and to create ways of taking action in our community. Join us in the creation of a healthy, sustainable future for Canberra. Cost: $30 (includes drinks and canapes), but bookings essential. Book online, or call us for more details. [more...]

Tell them seven times seven
'If you want people to do things, tell them seven ways and seven times.' We often hear the complaint: 'But I told them once.' Once is not enough. Why? Reason 1: People forget. There is so much information to absorb today that we remember some things - but forget much more. Remind them. Reason 2: People have habits. Most of what we all do every day comes from our habitual ways of doing things. We need repetition. Reason 3: People respond to different messages, delivered in different ways. Cover all possibilities. (Adapted from Jeffrey and Laurie Ford's 'Great Managing E-zine')

Align your people to the strategy
The way to get strategy executed is not by telling people what to do: but by sharing the strategy in a way that everyone can understand and buy into. What is required of leaders? A recent leadership survey of 1600 leaders and managers of global companies asked this question in relation to strategy. Respondents said said communication is increasingly replacing the management role of planning people's work and telling them what to do. Leaders must also align people so that they execute the strategy - then measure and monitor how successfully the alignment and execution occurs.

Global Learning's recent projects
When people consider the tyranny of distance, it's not often on the scale that the Lake Eyre Basin Conference Steering Group encounter. Drawing upon representatives from a region that encompasses one sixth of the Australian land mass (the basin is one of the largest internal drainage systems on this planet), preparations for the 2008 Biennial Lake Eyre Basin Conference took on a life of its own, and brought together people from across the country - from all walks of life. Graziers mixed with miners, aboriginals with townsfolk, scientists with cattlemen. It was an incredibly diverse group, reflecting the diversity of the 1.14 square million kilometre basin... [more...]

How leaders move from 'I' to 'We'...
"Bill George and Andrew McLean, from the Harvard Business School, studied 125 leaders known for their success, effectiveness and integrity. What they learned surprised them immensely: leaders preferred to talk about their life stories, and who and what shaped them as leaders - and not their milestone successes. Almost all were characterised not by their successes, but by their ability to share a vision and to empower others. Each transformed from a focus on individual achievement to a personal journey of discovery and understanding of others, and learning to overcome their need to control everything: moving from 'I' to 'We'. [more...]

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