>> Calendar: Past Breakfast Briefs

Date: Thursday 2 July 2009
Speaker: Dr Benjamin Palmer

Internationally recognised authority on the topic of Emotional Intelligence
Director of Research and Development - Genos

Topic: Job Motivational Fit

Motivational Fit - Aligning Motivation to Performance

Build a workplace that people find meaningful; that people are passionate about and turn up to wanting to do their best every day! What motivates your people? What do they actually experience at work in terms of motivation?

Date: Wednesday 25 March 2009
Speaker(s): Charles Bishop and Steve Rohan-Jones

O2C Solutions – Directors

Topic: Breakfast Brief: Voyage to Sea

In 2007, O2C were engaged by a unit within a public sector organisation to implement a program to improve employee health, boost wellbeing, reduce stress and improve resilience. During 2008, the team from O2C travelled around Australia to work with the leaders of the organisation and to support them on their voyage of discovery. Together, they delivered activities related to resilience, mental health, emotional intelligence, fun, social networking, secondary leadership team engagement and building functioning workgroups.

Almost 200 people participated in the program. Their achievements were outstanding. An analysis of pre and post course surveys revealed that at the completion of the 14 month program, participants demonstrated:

• Decreased psychological distress
• Increased resilience
• Increased job and non job competency

In these rough economic times, it is great to see that the program had a positive impact on increasing resilience and received overwhelming support and endorsement by the organisation.

Date: Wednesday 22 October 2008
Speaker: Chris Appleton

Senior Executive - Australian Public Service

Topic: Leading in Times of Chaos

Modern workplaces strive to impose order, create stability and provide structure to deliver capability.

Not all responses are equally effective, some are even detrimental. During times of turbulence and change whether from external drivers, structural review or downsizing, people look for leadership, purpose and support.

Date: Friday 15 August 2008
Speaker: Darren Black

Outward Bound Australia – CEO
Darren Black is the CEO of Outward Bound Australia, a not-for-profit educational organisation dedicated to helping people discover, develop and achieve their potential. Outward Bound has its National Base in the ACT and conducts personal development programs nationally for over 5000 people each year.

Darren has served as a Leadership Instructor at Duntroon, served on humanitarian and peacekeeping operations with the United Nations in the Middle-East and since leaving the Army has been a consultant to the Corporate Sector and Government Departments on Leadership and Change Management before joining Outward Bound in 2003.

Darren is passionate about helping people and organisations to see and to achieve their potential.

Topic: Aligning Work and Individual Purpose

Empower yourself, your employees and your children to follow their heart, follow their calling and achieve personal greatness!

Date: Friday 16 May 2008
Speaker: Doug Mitchell

Civil Engineer, Grad Dip Applied Finance and Investment, Masters of Management
Doug is a triple bottom line productivity specialist, who acts as a trusted advisor to clients in helping prepare their organisation for future People, Planet and Financial implications. Doug assists organisations in defining how and when the changing environment will affect a client’s organisation and assists in developing timely and sustainable change strategies to succeed.

Doug's ‘People and Financial’ skills were enhanced through experiences with establishing the East Timor government, aid work with south west pacific nations and aboriginal health on remote communities. His ‘Planet and Financial’ aspects have been developed as Project Director of Australia's first Triple (design, construction, fit-out) Five-star (Australian Excellence) Green building that is helping to shape Industry and Government Policies.

Topic: Why change what works?

A Conversation with the future; People, the Planet & Finance through your working life.

Date: Thursday 8 November 2007
Speaker: Dr Stephen Mugford

B.Sc (Hons) London, Ph.D (Bristol)
Stephen has over 30 years experience as an educator and change management consultant. He is a consistently successful training deliverer, change manager and coach, covering areas such as leadership, emotional intelligence, communications skills, people management and organisational performance.

Topic: HOPE IS NOT A METHOD

The purpose and strategies for synergy and resilience within your organisation.

Date: Tuesday 7 August 2007
Speaker: Sue Todd

BA (Psych) ANU, DipEd Monash, MEd (Couns) UC
Registered Psychologist in ACT & NSW
Member of the Australian Psychological Society

Topic: Understanding Workplace Anxiety

What organisation wouldn’t want staff with these qualities?

• Shows dedicated job commitment
• Pays strong attention to detail
• Exhibits a high degree of selflessness

Date: Friday 22 June 2007
Speaker: Dr Benjamin Palmer

Internationally recognised authority on the topic of Emotional Intelligence
Director of Research and Development - Genos

Topic: Job Motivational Fit

“When land was the productive asset, nations battled over it. The same is happening now for talented people.” Measuring Job Motivational Fit represents many new and exciting possibilities for winning the war for talent, as it enables an appropriate matching of people, roles and work teams within organisations.