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Comments from Past Workshop Participants
Dear Marcus & Steven,
As a participant in your Adelaide workshop ( 13 July 2009 ), l would like to thank you both for the information / tools / experiences & insights which you provided to us. The day has given me a number of ideas that I intend to take to Board & staff. I am sure that once implemented, they will greatly assist our organization to move to the next level of strategic awareness that I believe ac.care will be required to achieve, in order to remain a leader in the provision of rural community services. I would greatly appreciate it if you could forward to me any further handouts / tools / information that may assist us to get to that point. One such tool would be the examples of “ Annual Board Work Plans “ that you mentioned.
Again, many thanks.
Rob Foggo
CEO
ac.care: 'Opportunities for Life - for rural people'
'Excellent Pace, very practical but soundly based on theory. Great responses to problems/issues brought in by participants'
Chris Jenkins
Principal
Korowa Anglican Girls School
'Excellent because lecturers are hands on practitioners...'
Robert Wright
Alpha link
'It was very valuable from a Board member's point of view & also from the point of view as a person who writes strategic plans'
Jeanette Draper
Bass Coast Shire
“An outstanding presentation-the stunning case examples from the presenter’s experience were excellent”
“The enthusiasm and wealth of knowledge was inspiring”
"Excellent presentation and generous in giving knowledge"
“Awesome-a wonderful presentation and skilful enjoyable presenters”
“…the most informative, practical, enjoyable training session on any topic I have attended”
“Excellent to have a speaker passionate about the topic”
"Forceful ideas, very useful notes
Feedback from the Melbourne Workshop on the 8th of August
The feedback from the session was incredibly diverse with some people stating that the free flowing nature and broad-brush of the session was excellent, whilst others felt that the process needed more structure and guidance; some saying that the session wasn't advanced enough and others indicating that there was more content provided than expected; some felt that the presenters didn't engage the audience as they would have liked and some saying that the views that emerged from the group were well covered.
These are common themes during the workshops given the variation in experience of personnel and organisation sizes and types. We certainly seemed to have answerd lots more questions with the post session extra materials and have made some changes to include them as part of the program for future events - we especially thank all of those who provided feedback to us and appreciate their insights and perspectives.
Other comments about the facilitators
"It was a pleasure to meet you this morning. As a last-minute replacement to this morning’s breakfast I wasn’t sure what to expect. I found your presentation to be very informative, inspiring and it was quite eye opening. You’re clearly very passionate about driving change and sustainability and definitely got me thinking. I’d love to keep in touch and would be happy to recommend you to clients and other colleagues."
Alice Morden
Principal Consultant
Boston Kennedy
Australian Building & Construction Commission (ABCC) "A presentation that was both relevant to our sector and stretched us to think outside it. The delivery style was excellent and engaging combining facts and complex ideas with humour and audience involvement resulting in a session that matched or exceeded expectations of all involved" Felicity McGrath Communications Manager Marcus I just wish to thank you for providing such an interesting, informative & entertaining session AND for all the information I wasn't able to write down. I've never taken so many notes at a breakfast meeting in my life, nor will I ever take so few again. I can already see many opportunities to apply your teachings with one of them being a presentation on Monday. David Hilder Engineering Manager Dandenong South, VIC Gold Coast Water '...Marcus's facilitation skills were probably some of the best I've seen to date. A combination of broad multi-disciplinary knowledge and high calibre interpersonal skills were evident in his ability to facilitate and contribute to the industry related discussion without imposing on the clientele..." Ben Sheppard Strategic Management Coordinator Fosters Australia Foresight Group 'The Accelerated Scenarios process was enthusiastically embraced by the team here at Foster's. This approach to futures thinking led to a re-perceiving of where we saw the market heading and the future opportunities and threats..." Steve Tighe Foresight Manager Fosters Australia Foresight Group "Through his teachings Marcus has left a legacy at Foster's. Over the past year we have learnt that looking for insights in the 'safe areas' provides less value than looking for 'signals' in the 'right' areas. This changed perspective has been largely due to the influence of Marcus" Steve Tighe Foresight Manager
"In the multi-company sessions that Marcus facilitated for us, he displayed the uncanny ability to challenge the very essence of the participants' thinking process and the potential (and often untapped) opportunities within their business, allowing them to leave with not only theory, but the ability to implement!" Sandra George
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Our Experience Means You Benefit
Acquiring this level of skill can only come through well developed 'travels' across industry sectors, positions, functions and outcomes. It requires a willingness to walk the 'paths less travelled' and to show how the richness of the journey can be of benefit to those who have enjoyed the alternative.
With direct exposure to the Financial Services, Policing, Education, Advertising, Manufacturing, and Recruitment sectors, we are able to draw upon functional understanding across businesses of all types and purposes.
This means you get access to our ability to identify the very best of 'cross industry' opportunities - customer retention strategies; employee engagement methods; sales processes; strategic development initiatives; marketing excellence; innovation creation and many, many more.
The really important thing to note is that we do not bring a 'cookie cutter' with us. Whilst your business may share similarities with others in the same sector or different sectors, it is unique. Applying 'model x' regardless of what you really need is not our style. EVERYTHING will be tailored specifically to what you need and for the purpose you need it.
Key Personnel
All of our personnel and facilitators bring with them extensive trainng and real life operational experience. Specifically it is probable that our personnel will have qualifications in at least one of the following disciplines:
- Post Graduate Qualifications in Strategic Foresight
- Certification in Spiral Dynamics from the National Values Centre in the United States
- Certification in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
When you add these exquisite and precise thinking skills to extensive experience across a wide variety of business sectors, you have available to you an exceptional business asset that will transfer skills into your business.
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Monday 30 January 2012
I've had a good opportunity to study all sorts of organisations up close and personal so take this as one person's informed view as to the barriers to getting change to happen and to stick. There's lots of talk about internal competencies, about getting people on board, about clear direction and good communication of what is planned. But in the end my experience working across industry sectors leads me to pick one, above all other barriers to change - permission.
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Thursday 19 January 2012
Founder of The Australian Strategic Planning Institute and Director of Looking Up Feeling Good, Marcus Barber has written an article highlighting the commonalities across doing well and doing poorly organisations which you can download for free via this link:
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Monday 16 January 2012
The Australian Strategic Planning Institute is delighted to offer Primary Schools in Victoria a chance for Primary School Boards to undergo a session on Strategic Planning. This will be a two hour accelerated session conducted in house with flexible times available, including the possibility of running the session after hours to cater for board members coming from other workplace commitments.
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