State Government Conference
IPAA NSW (Institute of Public Administration) is hosting a one-day conference on THURSDAY July 22. The conference is expected to provide an exciting and topical program including keynote addresses from notable politicians, as well as national and international speakers. If you are interested in the cost of delivering services improving community views and service delivery outcomes improving transparency and accountability exploring the what happens if we have a change in government state and federal relationships then there is likely to be some useful and actionable information for you , not to mention the networking with colleagues in other departments and agencies. Share ideas, listen in … the early bird pricing closes soon. Find out more at www.nsw.ipaa.org.au I may even see you there!
Build Your Expertise… Fast
Key tips from Gihn Perera. Create your newsletter – short and sweet better but HAS to be high value content. Subscriptions to newsletters dropping but blog subscriptions increasing. Post to your blog – post at least weekly, prepare a batch of posts in one go and schedule their release dates, cut and paste from your newsletter, review videos or articles or books and summarise or comment on those, talk about what you know Create a podcast – audio mp3 file Produce a video – sit in your backyard with your webcam and knock it up. It’s about quality content more than high production values. Use tools to automatically update – twitterfeed.com, tell LinkedIn to update from your tweets, tell YouTube to post video to twitter and Facebook, AddThis.com. Blogger or…
Getting More Things Done
No matter what our role, it’s increasingly a challenge to fit everything in. Multi-tasking is great but it often means we get less done even though we manage to start and attend to a lot of things that need progress. I was reminded today of Charles Schwab’s enduring formula for managing productivity: The “Big 6” 1. Make a list, before the start of each day, of the things that need to be accomplished. 2. Identify your "Big 6" and put a star (*) by them. Commit to accomplishing the top six that are CURRENTLY most important to your goals . 3. Begin work on the one that is most important. Continue working until that task is completed (or something else became more important).…
Retention or Transfer of Learning – What’s up?
Do people retain what they learn? It’s a continual struggle to prove the value of learning let alone validate whether someone not only learned from training but are actually applying it. In my personal and professional experience of courses, workshops, seminars and other learning odes, most people learn but few actually do anything with the learning. So retention of learning is one thing. What’s more important is transfer of learning to create change in behaviour, values, attitudes, skills, competency. Matt Moore, cites the figures at around 10% transfer of knowledge and refers to a seminal work (Ford, J.K. & Weissbein, D.A. (1997). Transfer of training: an updated review and analysis. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 10(2), 22?41. doi:10.1111/j.1937-8327.1997.tb00047.x). Matt also suggests the following references to expand knowledge in…