Melbourne Business School - Mt Eliza Executive Insights: April 2009

ISSUE April 2009

Is your organisation positioned for above-average performance?

Are you taking a strategic approach to managing human capital?

The jigsaw of leadership

Are you helping your managers to ‘get going’?

How do you tell a good program design from a poor one?

HR Managers can earn their stripes in tough times

Developing leaders for a sustainable future

May 2009

May 4-6
Young Professionals Program (nr)
May 11-15
Strategic Finance for Executives
May 11-15
Strategic Leadership: The Tranformational Process
May 18-22
Leadership Development Program (LDP)®
May 24-29 ( Carlton)
Intensive Management Program
May 25-29
Finance in Five Days: A Toolkit for Non-Financial Managers
May 25-29
Advanced Negotiation and Influence Strategies

June 2009

June 1-6
New Managers Development Program
June 9-12
Strategic Thinking and Action
June 10-12
Foundations of Leadership
June 15-18
Mindful Leadership Program
June 21-26
Senior Managers Program
June 22-26
Leadership Development Program (LDP)®
June 24 -26 (Sydney)
Practical Innovation Program

Leadership & talent architecture workshops

New Zealand
Date: May 6

Brisbane
Date: June 29

An interactive session on the Global Financial Crisis

Melbourne
Date: April 29

Leading through the Crisis – A Matter of Emotional Intelligence

Sydney
Date: May 13

Melbourne
Date: June 10

Event Details

Helen Ormond

Helen Ormond is an expert in change leadership and organisational alignment, having successfully led major programs in the corporate sector globally as well as in the public sector at a whole of government level. Helen is experienced in leading organisations through cultural change aligned with new strategic and policy agendas, including the Corporate Renewal for a major bank, a program she devised and led globally

Do more with less

Many organisations are tightening their belts by delaying projects and laying people off. These times are particularly challenging for business line managers and HR professionals who are focused on the people and/or the culture of their organisations.

In this edition, we explore some of the ways we’re working with organisations to help them ‘do more with less’ to leverage and engage their most important organisational asset ─ their people.

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Is your organisation positioned for above-average performance?

Australian organisations can access a new, web-based diagnostic survey ─ the WinningInsights© First XI Diagnostic. It measures and benchmarks organisations against nine dimensions that ‘winning organisations’ in Australia do differently....

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Are you taking a strategic approach to managing human capital?

In Melbourne, we recently held a successful, interactive luncheon on "Creating value through people". Ian O. Williamson, Associate Professor, MBS, led a discussion on the need for organisations to still motivate and retain a talented workforce in our environment of cost-cutting.

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The jigsaw of leadership

Organisations that use a systematic aligned approach are better at talent and leadership development than those that use a piecemeal fragmented approach.

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Are you helping your managers to ‘get going’?

Back in the eighties there was a saying ‘when the going gets tough, the tough get going’. Action often separates winners from losers but how do you build an action orientation within your organisation in this tough environment?

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How do you tell a good program design from a poor one?

How do you know if a development program is of good or poor program design? What are the tell-tale signs? And how should you go about designing a program?

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HR Managers can earn their stripes in tough times

The current economic climate presents significant challenges for organisations as well as an equally great stimulus for change. There are more opportunities for HR managers to earn their stripes than ever before.

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Developing leaders for a sustainable future

The 18 month, Leadership Development Program will enhance the leadership capability of Melbourne Water staff to help their organisation realise its 2010 vision, which includes addressing key environmental and sustainability issues.

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