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Shining a fresh leadership light on
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Do your projects deliver their promised customer outcomes on time and within budget?
Are you seeking to better lead and manage programs across your organisation, partnerships or community?
Do you need to add structure to some of your informal project management processes and experience?
Are you growing leadership behaviours and collaborative practices that can en-liven your project teams?
Do you operate in a complex environment of change, where innovation, agility, growth and fun is important?
Is your organisation commited to growing as an agile "learning organisation" that encourages creativity?
If so, we can help you prepare for a richer future. Read feedback from others
These provide "Just in Time Learning" for indivuduals and team members managing new projects. (We normally limit numbers to less than eight people to ensure these are highly interactive learning sessions)
This two day workshop concentrates on the leadership, behaviours, skills, processes and tools needed to deliver effective projects on time and on budget. We take the project through all stages of its lifecycle, starting from just an idea until it delivers the customer outcomes it was established to achieve. We cover the Project Management Institute's PMBOK body of knowledge in a way that allows you to capitalise on the collaborative power of a team. We include a short Microsoft Project Tutorial.
This workshop suits both people new to projects or experienced participants needing to reassess and strengthen
their processes, who learn best in a structured / sharing environment. We challenge; thinking beyond risks that constrain projects to look for opportunities to innovate and grow. more details
(b) LST Workshop - Living Systems Thinking
New tools for growing vibrant organisations and communities
Next - DEVONPORT 26-27 July - New Leadership for Complex Programs" FLYER
SPECIAL for SBN Members 30-31 Aug - Growth in Sustainable Businesses FLYER
This two day workshop embraces much of the content of the above, considering it from a Living Systems Thinking (LST) perspective which sees organisations, projects and communities not as machines, but rather as as highly interconnected networks of living components with win-win partnerships. It acknowledges that our world is one full of complexity, uncertainly, ambiguity and even chaos. We look to nature for lessons on how it exploits opportunities for growth so we can emulate it in our organisations and communities. This helps us apply traditional project management in much more collaborative and effective ways, particularly in complex program situations where success requires us to lever on other departments or partner activity.
This suits people who learn best in team situations that challenges their own and other's assumptions. Where possible we pick a theme area for these workshops dependent on participants. more details.
By keeping our overheads low we are able to maintain our two day workshop price at $660 + GST including lunches, teas, documentation and certificates. As this is around one third to one half that of most other comparative providers, we recommend you bring along a colleague to support your retention and
ongoing learning when you return to your workplace. Download a poster for your notice boards or our enrolment form
(c) SCRUM Workshop - for Agile Project Management - NEW
"Scrum is an Agile process that can be used to manage and control complex software and product development using iterative, incremental practices. Scrum has been used from simple projects to changing the way entire enterprises do their business. Scrum significantly increases productivity and reduces time to benefits while facilitating adaptive, empirical systems development" - This description from www.controlchaos.com by Ken Schwaber a pioneer of this thinking that adopts the rugby scrum metaphor. (watch the Google video on this page - much of it applies to most other types of projects)
We have an associate here from Finland, a certified Scrummaster practioner who can offer a one day introductory workshop for people in IT organisations interested in exploring this different way of thinking. Contact us now for details:
We customise workshops using material from both of the above as appropriate for each specific organisation, running them where-ever they are needed. These have a strong focus on customer outcomes; growing leadership, teamwork, proactive behaviours, innovation and learning organisation thinking, so are appropriate for people at all levels. We include real project examples from the organisation that help grow a collective understanding of program / project management principles and the peer support processes that allow them to be applied in any particular situation. more details (including standard arrangements and costs)
In many cases these are followed with mentoring sessions to help a small internal team put in place robust project management and support processes. Ongoing organisational support includes mentoring for individual project managers and project teams to help them initiate and plan projects in ways that maximise the probability of success.
Our in-house workshops can accommodate 10 -15 people, and offer exceptional value (equivalent to putting 5-6 people on public workshops). For smaller organisations, those who cannot have all staff off at once, or for upskilling new employees, we recommend our public workshops which are held every month in Devonport.
We work with individuals and teams seeking support on their projects. Our public schedules normally follow each workshop with an optional application day, so that participants from out of town if they wish can stay on for some 1:1 or small team mentoring on their actual projects.
Help equip your team or organisation grow the skills and tools they need to work collaboratively in a complex world where the connection between multiple actions and multiple outcomes are not direct; where our collective wisdom and shared stories are needed to find the patterns from which new processes can emerge. e.g.
- "Living Systems Thinking; an Organic Approach to Leadership"- a one or two hour dialogue for senior executives who find the old business / organisational mechanics are passing their "use by" date
- "New Tools for Growing Living Communities" - A half day workshop for communities taking control of their own destiny - Applying the Tipu Ake leadership model and more accross boundaries.
- "Working and Learning Collaboratively; success for all in a complex world" - A highly interactive three hour mind challenge for operational level teams embarking on radical improvement programs.
- "Thriving in a Complex World" - A mind challenging two hour interactive seminar recently presented to the NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants Sustainability Group and others.
- "Leadership in Living Communities of Learning" - A one day interactive workshop recently run with fifty regional managers from a decentralised organisation to allow them to help grow a new and more organic approach to strategic planning, action and evaluation to meet the challenge of coming years.
Peter Goldsbury, (09) 4454454 (anytime), 021 465372 , pgoldsbury@stratex.co.nz
Our client list includes many of New Zealand's most Innovative Organisations, read feedback
Use the menus at the top of each page to access more information including our 2010 workshop schedule
Q1. What is our point of difference?
We will help you extend leadership and communication horizontally across your organisation and beyond. These focus on growing leadership and management skills within project teams that may include customers, suppliers, cross organisational partnerships or program alliances to deliver real customer outcomes.
Our point of difference is that we take participants beyond traditional project and organisational management practices, empowering them both them and these processes with a Kiwi organic leadership model that acknowledges organisations as being living, complex and interdependent; needing collaboration, sharing of information and systems thinking - essential skills for the future.
We promise that participants will challenge themselves with some fresh and healthy thinking:
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A living systems model that encourages positive individual and organisational behaviours
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Driving action by thinking back from the future we seek; beyond just fire-fighting today
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Respecting our diversity and acknowledging that we all contribute in our unique way
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Proactively seeking opportunity, even in what seems like chaos; far beyond risk management
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Innovation tools to turn ideas into projects, within programs that deliver / lever real outcomes
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Collaborative tools for initiating, planning, implementing and controlling projects
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Growing a thirst for learning and sharing in ways that suit the knowledge economy
Listen to our Living Systems Thinking radio interview
For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong - H L Mecken |
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