Getting ready for the mid term report

Have sent out a Survey Monkey survey to gather information for this report, and had two responses, both fabulous!

Also getting ready for the TMS: Team Management System which all our team members will undertake in the next few weeks.

Mentoring

Part of the Initiative is to have mentoring conversations, half an hour on the phone. What did I learn from mine?

• That we have a good partnership and innovation strategy happening.
• That we have developed a good partnership with HR in particular, around performance development, TAA2, EEo and lots more!!
• Some sub teams will operate better than others
• The need to remove yourself sometimes
• Don't be too hard on yourself :-)

We need some photos!

WEll, I've titled this posting as a reminder for myself! We are using a SharePoint site, which is only open to our team. This is becasue SharePoint is the preferred site for the Institute, so we are all learning along the way as well.

We have used Survey Monkey to collaboratively write the mid-term report, with some responses; we've tried a survey from the SharePoint site where the team's reflection on learning show that they've "learnt where the SharePoint site is" :-)

In deciding to go ahead with the project, I needed a facilitator who would move the team along. We decided to have four sub teams at the first meeting, where we also did an excellent job of scoping the poject, giving us great parameters around the Research, Content, Design and Promotion of the online induction resource.

What I love about this project is the links that are being made across various Units, Faculties and Colleges within the Institute, and how it scaffolds communication. Our second meeting saw three of the sub-teams move ahead with their planning and actions, and we now have a two week holiday.

On the 30th July we will have completed the TMS profile, and be having a debriefing day with our HR Business Partner.

Testing posting to a blog from an email address!

Okay, so maybe we’re already outside the strict scope of what this blog is about (a project reflection, rather than just my individual reflection on the learning!) I couldn’t resist testing this email facility J

Actually the first post was really May 08, but I had it in my holiday blog on Vietnam, rather than in the right place. I have also been thinking about the need to balance risk taking and accountability today, in between a lot of meetings about recogntiino. At one meeting somebody said people are sick of the sound of recognition – are they right?

Learning reflections

Our project got started on Monay May 4, 2009. The first meeting, as is often the case, included icebreakers, but we also had an independent facilitator who helped us complete a task analysis in a 2.5 hour meeting, so we have the project scoped!

If you're part of this project, a question for you: "What learning did you do?"I'll start the ball rolling: I learnt that you can participate a lot more effectively by: listening, not taking notes and trying to be everything at once. I have also known for a long time that if you trust people, they will certainly stand by that trust, as most people do not want to not succeed....this reminds me of something a world-famous swimming coach said to me about an under 12 swimming carnival - they don't swim to lose.