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23.01.2022 How some regional communities are transitioning to new industries and economic drivers to prepare for a future that will be radically different to today. https://abcmedia.akamaized.net//p/2018/11/fte_20181104.mp3. What could be the future of your community? How will jobs change? How will you make the transition in a way that provides the greatest opportunities?

22.01.2022 Walking among three people, I find my teacher among them. I choose that which is good in them and follow it, and that which is bad and change it. Confucius What will you learn from someone today and how will you support them to be even greater?

21.01.2022 I wish I'd developed this! It sounds like fun.

20.01.2022 An opportunity for regional businesses to put your point of view to Canberra. This discussion on Mindhive and initiated by Kate Carnell, is calling for small businesses to share ideas for recovery from the shutdown. Mindhive contacted me for help to engage regional people in this discussion and ensure a range of voices are heard. "What can Australian governments do to help our small and family businesses recover after COVID-19 and thrive in the future? If you are a business o...wner or you have an interest in this area, we want to hear from you!" It is also an opportunity to join a broad network of sectors across Australia and the world to influence policy. Enter the discussion at https://platform.mindhive.org/challenges/907/overview/brief I hope everyone is healthy and looking after each other. Warm wishes, Pamela.

18.01.2022 Today, I was asked about a phrase I use, that is, to work at a 'values', rather than a 'task' level. By this, I am referring to the common mistake of thinking that what I 'value' might be 'that the washing up gets done every day'. That is what I would call thinking at a 'task' level. It is a very visible aspect of life, like the tip of the iceberg that is viewable because it floats above the water line.... When we ask 'why is having the washing up done important to me?' we might answer - because I value health, or security, or order, or beauty. The answers to our 'why' questions get closer to thinking at a 'values' level. Our values are not easily visible. In the iceberg metaphor, they exist deep below the water line, and we have to use 'why', sometimes again and again, to get to the deep, foundational drivers for our choices. Our values are resistant to change, so if you work at this level with other people, the drive to make things happen will strengthen and also endure. Conversations and work that is connected with our values create commitment and motivation that is unavailable if we only talk about the 'task'.

18.01.2022 Just a few days left to apply for this scholarship for women in ag to study leadership. All women currently employed in the Australian farming and agricultural sectors are invited to apply for a limited pool of scholarship funding that has been provisioned for participation in a range of leadership courses. The grants are allocated with the specific intent of providing powerful and effective development opportunities for women within the farming and agricultural sector. Schol...arship funding is strictly limited and has to be allocated by the end of the year. Expressions of Interest close 5pm on Friday, 14th December 2018. https://www.wla.edu.au/farmingagriculture.html See more

17.01.2022 I've just read NationBuilder's blurb on their software and think they make some great points about their point of difference in the market. They compare their product with other work software, and point out that we need tools that emphasise leadership, not management. That means focusing more on: - People and relationships first, and that tasks are in the service of people and communities, not an end in themselves. - Understanding the big picture first, especially the inter-...dependencies between elements within, and outside of, our work. - The future, and what we will do differently to get better results. Not just doing what we currently do even better, but 'are we doing the RIGHT thing?' - Measuring value, not activities. How much increasing value are we delivering for people and communities over the long term? - The quality of our innovation - how well are we trying new ideas, learning and adapting, testing new ideas and technologies that help us engage in a deeply social way? - Put people and our relationships at the centre - how well do we 'reach, engage, inspire, and motivate others to take action' to achieve our shared aspirations? How well do we know our supporters, what they care about, and how to engage them? - Take ownership and protect our data, don't let algorithms and anonymous players determine our destiny. - Enabling our supporters to act. Moving our supporters 'into deeper relationship with us, improving our outcomes, and giving people more opportunities to connect to our movement'. - Finally, and most powerfully, DISTRIBUTE leadership. 'To achieve scale, you can’t do it alone'. Our supporters need to advocate and organise on our behalf, take advantage of the power of peer to peer engagement, and grow our base of engaged participants. I don't know about their software but I feel heartened by their message and focus. Thank you, NationBuilder! https://nationbuilder.com/leadership_software

15.01.2022 Sometime ago I purchased a lavalier mic with a view to creating podcasts. It has really come into its own now. If you want to have more pleasant and rewarding online communications I recommend investing in one just not to have annoying scratchy, muffled audio from a standard computer or mobile phone mic. I bought this: audio technica lavalier microphone atr3350is.... Much cheaper than the more highly regarded Rode models (around $250) but definitely will greatly improve podcast/online meetings. The lectures I am recording for UQ are much improved by using it. It cost me around $80 from Store DJ in Fortitude Valley great value. The best price I found today is from Georges Camera store $45 + $10 postage, but I encourage you to support Store DJ and their helpful staff. I’d like to support our local suppliers in this difficult time. Here is an explanation of the mic: https://www.thepodcasthost.com//atr-3350-lavalier-microph/ I also purchased a basic external webcam (logi $10 from Aldi) so that I can control the angle of video in video meetings. Standard earbuds plug into the lavalier adapter. Using headphones of some kind reduces background noise and feedback. https://www.georges.com.au/audio-technica-atr3350is-lapel-m

15.01.2022 Hosted by Peter Kenyon, this excellent series of free webinars from Rural Aid features some of our best promoters of rural business and community, including Tom... O'Toole. They are being recorded so you can catch up in your own time. There are still plenty to come with good ideas and more resources online. I hope you are all healthy and happy. https://www.ruralaid.org.au/towns/webinars/ See more

15.01.2022 This organisation provides a mind-boggling array of information, tools and support for both not-for-profits and for-profits who are working for community good. Got a problem you need to fix or want to do things better? I think they might have something useful for you. I notice the chair is also on the board of the Reserve Bank. Looks interesting...

14.01.2022 ALTERNATIVES TO MEETINGS The people I want to collaborate with live a long way from me, some in different countries. Meeting face-to-face is an expensive option, but one worth investing in. To support those face-to-face meetings I believe people in regions can use technology more. ... The following, taken from Lucid Meetings website, reflects the kind of work I hope we can develop. By doing more of the 'remote' communication, we can do less organising, we can contribute to group thinking and learning at a time that suits us and when internet connection speeds are working well. "A regular meeting cadence gives teams a way to share information, raise and solve issues, and build relationships. But there are lots of ways to accomplish these same goals outside of a meeting. Slack, Skype, email, reports, just turning around and talking with someone there’s no need to wait until a regular meeting if you’ve got something important to share. If your team thrives on text-based communication, you can probably meet less frequently. If that's you, focus more time on team building when you meet. That said, with increasing awareness of the anxiety/addiction impact of constant communication, and the growing push to minimize distractions (like text, chat, email, etc.) to maintain work focus, these channels become unreliable. You can’t know IF or WHEN your team will read that email or chat message. The predictability of a regular meeting cadence lets team members plan their time to maximize productivity and minimize distractions, knowing that they’ll have an opportunity to sync up with everyone else at the scheduled time." How do you think we can we collaborate and learn together better, even when we can't meet face-to-face?

12.01.2022 FRRRAustralia video on the South Burnett Community Leadership Program run in partnership between Red Earth Community Foundation and McAllister Leadership. 2019 will be our sixth program, and our 130th participant will graduate. This strong network of people with shared aspirations, knowledge and skills is having great results in growing a flourishing community.

11.01.2022 Hi friends Sometime ago I purchased a lavalier mic with a view to creating podcasts. It has really come into its own now.... If you want to have more pleasant and rewarding online communications I recommend investing in one just not to have annoying scratchy, muffled audio from a standard computer or mobile phone mic. I bought this: audio technica lavalier microphone atr3350is. Much cheaper than the more highly regarded Rode models (around $250) but definitely will greatly improve podcast/online meetings. The lectures I am recording for UQ are much improved by using it. It cost me around $50 at the time, from Store DJ in Fortitude Valley great value. The best price I found today is from Georges Camera store $45 + $10 postage - https://www.georges.com.au/audio-technica-atr3350is-lapel-m. I’d like to support our local suppliers in this difficult time. Here is an explanation of the mic: https://www.thepodcasthost.com//atr-3350-lavalier-microph/ I also purchased a basic external webcam (logi $10 from Aldi) so that I can control the angle of video in video meetings. Standard earbuds plug into the lavalier adapter. Using headphones of some kind reduces background noise and feedback. Much love Pamela

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08.01.2022 Scientists planning a human trip to Mars have undertaken research to find significant qualities of teams that help them survive. They learnt that regular and effective debriefing after events can improve performance by 25%. Key elements of effectively learning together are: 1. Active self-learning group members actively engage rather than being passive recipients. 2. Developmental intent A clear intention to learn and improve in an environment that is safe, without judg...ment. 3. Focus on learning from specific events as real world examples, rather than general performance or skills and knowledge. 4. Learn from diverse types of people - This includes input from multiple team members, from different areas of an organisation and at least one external source, such as an observer or objective data source. Hear the story on This Working Life on ABC Radio National...

07.01.2022 A student asks about leadership, management and negotiation - how they are related. She asks: I don't know if management skills are different from leadership skills as they can all make the team to achieve something. For example, if I resolve the conflicts in the team by using the tips of negotiation, will it be an act of managing or leading? Is trying to build an effective team an act of leading or managing? Pam replied: I can see how this can be confusing. I’ll try to clar...ify. Both management and leadership skills and action are necessary for success. This society has a lot of understanding and good recipes for management, but there is great need to increase our leadership contribution in a fast changing world, where the answers, the ‘right’ ways to achieving something, are not known. So, the need for us to do management in order to be successful is acknowledged, our programs focus on improving the often-neglected leadership component to get more people practising better leadership in workplaces and communities. Courses dedicated to management will continue to deliver good learning about management. However, as this is a course in leadership, we ask you to focus on the leadership elements in your action. You need to be able to describe management and leadership to distinguish them. Is this possible? Are they indeed separate, or a continuum with grey areas at the edges? I’m not sure and I haven’t found the literature to help here. However, some actions are clearly management and some clearly leadership. If you can look at the descriptions provided in Workshop 1 for the distinction and argue that what you do is leadership, then I will accept your argument. Negotiation is important to leadership as our work and community life becomes more democratised. Autocratic forms of leadership become less used as more people become educated and able to participate in decision-making and leading. As people expect to be part of decision-making we need to negotiate across the different world-views, beliefs and values of these participants. Negotiation will find a way to meet more people’s needs and expectations to find new paths to living and working well together. The leadership tip is ‘new’. If it’s been done before we only need to improve our way of doing it to make it more efficient - management. This is like sharpening the machetes to cut down the jungle more efficiently. If we discover we're in the 'wrong jungle' then we need to find a new path, we don’t know how to make it happen and we employ the crucial skills of leadership to get there, by harnessing the best from all our collaborators. The better our leadership, the better the relationships and people's ability and will to contribute their best. Consider how Challenge the Process enables this through doing little experiments to adapt as we learn along the new way. Does this help? Pamela.

05.01.2022 My first thought as I woke this morning was, "how to facilitate today's zoom workshop to help M... do his leadership project and allow everyone to learn and get clearer and more relaxed with the assignment?". Insights on leadership practice happen every day as I listen to media and as I search literature in response to the real world challenges and questions that come to me. This morning I searched 'the importance of conversation to leadership' and found many papers that rein...force, but better still, integrate what I have learnt so far. The best feeling is to find answers that help solve persistent problems in my interactions with others.

05.01.2022 Tips for a leadership program alumni :http://leadershiplearning.org//tips-leadership-program-alu