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Workforce Development Team Workshop Workforce Development Team Workshop

Workforce Workforce Development Development Team Workshop Team Workshop

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9.30am Welcome

 

9.35 Celebrating success Stephen Griffiths - Director, Workforce Development, NLIAH

& looking to the future 

9.50 What’s in my suitcase? + workshop aims & expectations

10.25 Workforce Development Team – making the links (Group work & feedback)

11.10 BREAK

11.30 Workforce Development Team – making the links contd. (Group work & feedback)

 

12.30pm LUNCH TIME 

1.15 Post-lunch activity

1.40 Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - a practical framework for personal and team development

3.00 Reflection and evaluation

3.30 Finish and home

Celebrating

Celebrating

Success Success

& Looking to

& Looking to

the

the

FutureFuture

Stephen Griffiths Director

Workforce Development, NLIAH

What’s What’s in my in my suitcase?suitcase?

Name & Role at NLIAH

Favourite holiday destination

Favourite piece of music / song

Claim to fame

What I want to achieve or change as a result of today’s workshop

What do I / we want to What do I / we want to ACHIEVEACHIEVE oror

CHANGECHANGE as a result of this as a result of this

workshop?workshop?

The one indisputable The one indisputable fact that characterises fact that characterises organisational life, is that organisational life, is that

CHANGECHANGE is is

inevitable.inevitable.(Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe, 2005)

If we always do what If we always do what we’ve always done…we’ve always done…

……we’ll always get what we’ll always get what we’ve always got! we’ve always got!

ChoicChoicee

What will What will

we as a team do we as a team do differentlydifferently

as a result of today’s workshop?as a result of today’s workshop?

Making Making the the LinksLinks

Making Making the the LinksLinks

• What are the benefits of improving linkages within the workforce development team?

• What are we doing already that demonstrates linkage within the

workforce development team?

• What else do we need to do to increase linkage within the workforce development team?

• How will we achieve increased linkage within the workforce development team?

What will be the first piece of What will be the first piece of evidence that demonstrates evidence that demonstrates increased linkage within the increased linkage within the

Workforce Development Team?Workforce Development Team?

Making Making the the LinksLinks

• What are the benefits of improving linkages between the workforce development

team and other NLIAH teams?

• What are we doing already that demonstrates linkage between the

workforce development team and other NLIAH teams?

• What else do we need to do to increase linkage between the workforce development

team and other NLIAH teams?

• How will we achieve increased linkage between the workforce development

team and other NLIAH teams?

What will be the first piece of What will be the first piece of evidence that demonstrates evidence that demonstrates

increased linkage between the increased linkage between the Workforce Development Workforce Development

Team and other NLIAH teams?Team and other NLIAH teams?

Lunch

Time

The The

Habits of Highly Habits of Highly Effective PeopleEffective People - a brief overview

Creating a Creating a

Paradigm Paradigm Shift Shift

““The significant The significant problems we face problems we face cannot be solved cannot be solved at the same level at the same level of thinking we of thinking we were at when were at when we we created them.”created them.”

A New Level of Thinking A New Level of Thinking (Paradigm)(Paradigm)

SkillsSkills

(how to)(how to)

DesireDesire

(want to)(want to)

KnowledgeKnowledge

(what to, why to)(what to, why to)

HABITSHABITS

We are what we We are what we repeatedly do.repeatedly do.

Excellence, Excellence, then, is not an then, is not an

act, but a act, but a habit.habit.

AristotleAristotle

The Maturity ContinuumThe Maturity Continuum

• Dependence - the paradigm of “you”Dependence - the paradigm of “you”

• Independence - the paradigm of “I”Independence - the paradigm of “I”

• Interdependence - the paradigm of “we”Interdependence - the paradigm of “we”

DependenceDependence Independence Independence InterdependenceInterdependence

Between what happens to us Between what happens to us and our response to it….and our response to it….

……..is our freedom to ..is our freedom to choose our responsechoose our response

"We who lived in concentration "We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men camps can remember the men who walked through the huts who walked through the huts comforting others, giving comforting others, giving

away their last piece of bread. away their last piece of bread.

They may have been few in They may have been few in number, but they offer number, but they offer

sufficient proof that sufficient proof that everything can be taken everything can be taken from a man but one thing : from a man but one thing : the last of human freedoms the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude - to choose one's attitude

in any given set of in any given set of circumstance circumstance - to choose - to choose

one’s own way. one’s own way.

Life holds a potential meaning Life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the under any conditions, even the

most miserable ones.”most miserable ones.”

Emotional Bank AccountEmotional Bank Account

• Understanding the individualUnderstanding the individual

• Attending to the little thingsAttending to the little things

• Keeping commitmentsKeeping commitments

• Clarifying expectationsClarifying expectations

• Showing personal integrityShowing personal integrity

• Apologising sincerely when you Apologising sincerely when you make a withdrawalmake a withdrawal

1. Be Proactive

2. Begin With the End in Mind

3. Put First Things First

4. Think Win-Win

5. Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

6. Synergize

7. Sharpen the Saw

The Private Victory

The Public Victory

Renewal

Be Proactive Be Proactive Be aware of yourself, your strengths, Be aware of yourself, your strengths,

weaknesses, blind spots, motivations - weaknesses, blind spots, motivations - and be proactive in finding out as much and be proactive in finding out as much as you can about yourself.  Then be as you can about yourself.  Then be

proactive in applying that proactive in applying that knowledge to your relations knowledge to your relations

with others.with others.

Habit 1

Habit 1

There’s nothing I can do Let’s look at other alternatives

That’s just the way I am I can choose a different approach

He makes me so mad I control my own feelings

I can’t I choose

I must I prefer

If only.. I will I

Reactive Language

Proactive Language

Begin with the Begin with the End in Mind End in Mind

In summary, create and live by a In summary, create and live by a personal mission statement.  This personal mission statement.  This

may lead onto more specific goals and may lead onto more specific goals and objectives, but the idea is that you try to live objectives, but the idea is that you try to live

as the sort of person you'd like to be as the sort of person you'd like to be remembered for when you've passed on.remembered for when you've passed on.

Habit 2

Habit 2

Put First Put First Things FirstThings First

Define what it is that really matters Define what it is that really matters in your life, then spend your time on in your life, then spend your time on those important things. Do you ever those important things. Do you ever find yourself in the ‘thick of thin things’? find yourself in the ‘thick of thin things’? Rather than spreading our time thinly Rather than spreading our time thinly across too many activities, concentrate across too many activities, concentrate

on doing a few things well. on doing a few things well.

Habit 3

Habit 3

Think ‘Win-Win’Think ‘Win-Win’In all your dealings with others, In all your dealings with others, aim for each little negotiation to aim for each little negotiation to

provide success (a win) for both sides.provide success (a win) for both sides.

Habit 4

Habit 4

Seek First to Seek First to Understand, then Understand, then

to be Understoodto be UnderstoodPut another way, "We have two ears Put another way, "We have two ears and one mouth, and they should be and one mouth, and they should be

used in that proportion."  In your used in that proportion."  In your communications, be sure you know the communications, be sure you know the other person's point of view before you other person's point of view before you

start expounding your own ideas. start expounding your own ideas.

Habit 5

Habit 5

When people who When people who are not used to are not used to

speaking are speaking are heard by people heard by people

who are not used to who are not used to listening, then real listening, then real

change occurs.change occurs.

SynergiseSynergise

Look for ways to take your ideas Look for ways to take your ideas and other people's ideas and build and other people's ideas and build on them together, on the basis on them together, on the basis that the outcome will be something that the outcome will be something greater than the sum of the inputs. greater than the sum of the inputs.

Habit 6

Habit 6

Sharpen the SawSharpen the SawThe seventh habit that The seventh habit that

makes all the other six last! makes all the other six last!

Sharpening the saw is about Sharpening the saw is about renewing yourself - physically, renewing yourself - physically,

mentally, spiritually and emotionally.mentally, spiritually and emotionally.

Habit 7

Habit 7

1. Be Proactive

2. Begin With the End in Mind

3. Put First Things First

4. Think Win-Win

5. Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

6. Synergize

7. Sharpen the Saw

““That which we persist in That which we persist in doing becomes easier -doing becomes easier -

- not that the nature of the - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our task has changed, but our

ability to do has increased.”ability to do has increased.”Ralph Waldo Emerson

Am I willing to Am I willing to pay the price?pay the price?

Final Final ThoughtsThoughts

If we always do what If we always do what we’ve always done…we’ve always done…

……we’ll always get what we’ll always get what we’ve always got! we’ve always got!

““If you If you want to see want to see

change… change…

…be the …be the change change you want you want to see” to see”

……what am Iwhat am Igoing to going to

do do differently differently

after today?after today?

The The ‘Star Fish’ ‘Star Fish’ PrinciplePrinciple

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