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| The latest Governor’s Leadership Foundation Session saw participants
get a taste of UniSA’s remarkable Museum of Design MOD – headed
up by FGLF 2011 Dr Kristin Alford, an insight into the gig economy
as well as an understanding of blockchain, AI, innovation and entrepreneurship
at Flinders University’s New Venture Institute at Tonsley. |
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Quotes heard during the session included:
“Future jobs will involve creative, critical and compassionate thinking”. The nine jobs of the
future will include “a vegan butcher” (growing meat without animals), “grief counsellor” (to cope
with loss associated with technological change) and an “experience inventor” as people will crave
experiences that immerse them in feelings"
Dr Kristin Alford, Futurist, Director UniSA’s Museum of Discovery, FGLF 2011
“Cars are idle 96% of the time”
Lachlan Cooper, Uber State Manager
“The innovation cycle decreases by half each time”
Chris Hooper, CEO Accodex
“An organisation has multiple business models, often in direct opposition to each other …
Innovation is the search for potential and turning that into value for the user and the organisation”
Assoc Prof in Innovation and Enterprise, Margaret Ledwith, Flinders University
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FGLF 2010 Jo Close from the Medical Device Research Institute, with
2018 GLFers Bec Adams, Tammy Williams and Rob Absalom |
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Robotics explored. |
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Last chance for Leading Edge Program – starts July 5
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The Leading Edge Program makes a real difference to our next generation of leaders
… “The tools and strategies I have been exposed to have helped me to improve
and a leader and allowed me to tackle complex organisational issues more effectively
and efficiently. If you face complex workplace issues in your drive to be a great
leader, I highly recommend participation in this program.” Simon Rowberry, Chief
Executive Officer, Barkuma. Click here to book now.
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A successful GLF 2019 Information Session was held at sponsor
Return to Work SA this month. Thanks to the alumni who gave heartfelt,
honest answers to the audience about the impact on themselves and
their leadership abilities from undertaking the program. Panelists
were Dr Ross McLennan, Graeme Brown, Sue Mitchell, Karen Hughes
and Lesley Marchioro.
Three more 2019 GLF Information sessions will be held. Come along
and help us share the benefits of the program. Dates are: July
24, 6pm to 7.30pm, August 15, 12.00 to 1.30pm and August 27, 6pm
to 7.30pm. Applications close on October 2. Book into a session now and share with a friend/colleague. |
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L to R: Jas Rieck, FGLF 2017 Ross McLennan and FGLF
2015 Karen Hughes |
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L to R: Potential 2019 participant with FGLF 2017 Lesley
Marchioro |
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L to R: FGLF 2017 Sue Mitchell with Engagement
Manager FGLF 2013 Susan Jackson-Wood |
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Guests at the GLF Information session |
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Alumni in action – Mary-Anne Healy
FGLF 2008 Mary-Anne Healy admits to the GLF being a challenging year “…taking
in so much information and hearing about wicked problems and complex issues from
across South Australia. Gradually I became more comfortable sitting with complexity
and ambiguity, as well as using different methodologies to deeply explore our own
challenges, using the collective wisdom of others. I built significant networks
and friendships out of my GLF year (and subsequent involvement with the program)
that I have relied upon, worked and collaborated with, and that remain important
to me today.”
Mary-Anne grew up on an Adelaide plains farm with crops, pigs and sheep and has
lived most of her life in SA other than time in the US as an exchange student,
a year in Western Qld and two years in the middle of the Pacific in the tiny nation
of Kiribati. She is now the Alinytjara Wilurara (Pitjantjatjara for North West)
Regional Director for the Department for Environment and Water - a region of mostly
Aboriginal lands from Ceduna to the WA border and north to the NT border (about
1/4 SA). She works with the all Aboriginal Board representing people across the
region, planning and setting priorities for natural resources management activities.
Mary-Anne believes the most important skill a leader should have is vulnerability
by which she means that she doesn’t “know or have all the answers. And I make mistakes.
And I seek out those with more experience and knowledge than me to help find solutions
or create opportunities. Being vulnerable also means you listen and respect others.”
Mary-Anne attends Leaders Institute Think Tanks and assists with interviewing GLF
candidates.
Pictured below: Mary-Anne with AW NRM Board members Debbie Hansen
from Tjuntjuntjara and Mima Smart from Yalata Community. |
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Leadership Thinking
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Escaping the echo chamber
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In many organisations the closer you get to the top the less people
tell you what you need to hear and the more they tell you what
they think you want to hear.
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As Theory U author Otto Scharmer says “It’s akin to what the Facebook algorithms are
doing to us on a systemic level — filtering out the very oxygen we need in
order to innovate. What is that oxygen? It’s disconfirming data from different
points of view. No innovation or true insights can happen without it. This self-limiting
barrier of an institution shields leaders from outside ideas and expertise that
could reshape the future of the organization. It prevents opportunities to deepen
the conversation and doesn’t allow any space for new ways to tackle problems."
Read more
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Policy failure
Seeing other’s perspectives is critical to being a good leader and as such is
something that underpins all our development programs. Recent research has shown
how policy makers can easily fall into the trap of group think with bad policy
as the result. “… Group reinforcement and the illusion of similarity strengthen
a policy maker’s sense that their proposal and perspectives are right. If someone
disagrees, this must be because they are incompetent, biased or malicious …
even strong opposing arguments can be dismissed as a result, to the detriment of
the ensuing policy." Read more
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Upcoming events
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12 – 15 July
Adelaide Festival of Ideas
With around 130 speakers and 80 individual events to encourage
the exchange of ideas and public intellectual discourse. Click here for the program.
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Monday 13 August 2018
5 – 8pm
Inspiring South Australian Women Impacting the World.
The Australia Day Council of South Australia and the Office for
Women is showcasing eight inspiring women who will reflect on their
personal backgrounds and influences, the driving forces behind
their work, and how they believe they are making an impact in the
world. Click here for tickets. |
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6 December 2018 – Leaders Institute End of Year Celebration
Our end-of-year celebration and thankyou to our supporters will
be on December 6, from 5pm at our offices at UniSA. |
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Let us know if
you have recently been in the media or taken on a new leadership position so we
can include your news in our next edition.
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