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Articles

Book Review

Margaret Devlin's Editorial

Spring 2007

• Mentoring for DSE Regional
• OD Professionals Update
• Public Programs

The Success Coach
Achieving realistic, tangible actions to ensure your success …

Written by one of CfOD's senior executive coaches, this book looks at the quality (not quantity) of success and shows you how to achieve it.  READ MORE

Geoffrey A Edwards

Business Bookclub

ISBN: 9780975749357

We hope you enjoy this issue of ODSpot, which features news of the DSE’s Regional Mentoring Pilot Program. This exciting program was officially launched this month and is aimed at retaining knowledge and increasing capability within the Department’s diverse workforce across Victoria.

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Year

Articles

Book Review

Margaret Devlin's Editorial

Winter 2007

• A New Young Look at NGV
• Sudanese Leaders Forum
• Let's Talk at Blackwood

Streetsmart
playing and winning the corporate game
by Chris Helder

This is a great little book on playing and winning the corporate game. It is full of insightful comment, amusing illustrations and well-placed quotes from Kenny Roger’s song ‘The Gambler’.

ISBN: 9781921024115

It’s been an exciting and busy time at CfOD and we would like to welcome all the new clients who have joined us over the past few months.

We hope you enjoy this issue of ODSpot, which features some highlights from recent programs and events and introduces you to our new country retreat, Let’s Talk at Blackwood.

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Summer 2007

• CfOD joins Global Leaders
• LG Pro Local Government Mentoring Program
• CfOD's New Client Services Coordinator

Appreciative intelligence
by Tojo Thatchenkery & Carol Metzker provides a new answer to the secret of success. Rather than luck, determination or optimism, the authors suggest that the secret to success lies in the ability to reframe reality to reveal the hidden potential within even the most apparently unpromising present and to devise a course of action to take advantage of it.

 

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Spring 2006

• Peer Learning Leads Success at Department of Premier and Cabinet
• OD Community Pleased With Pixels!
•  Two New Faces for the CfOD Team

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is the third of Patrick Lencioni's trilogy of corporate fables and follows on from The Five Temptations of a CEO (1998) and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive (2000).
by Patrick Lencioni

 

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Winter 2006

•  Do People in Your Organisation need Facilitation Skills Training?
•  One Office Many Age Groups - Few Problems

The Wisdom of Crowds:
Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations


by James Surowiecki

CfOD Launched New Look Web Site

Summer 2006

•  Energising Leaders – A Recipe for Success
•  Recipe for Leadership

A Whole New Mind – Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age

By Daniel H Pink

Here to be Dragons

Winter 2005

•  Coaching and Mentoring … and sometimes the twain shall meet
•  The Organisational Challenge

Organisations Behaving Badly: A Greek Tragedy of Corporate Pathology

By Leon Gettler

The Engagement Paradigm

A Systems Thinking Approach to Sustainable Cultural Change

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Summer 2005

•  An OD approach to career management and transition
•  The Client Consultant Relationship

THE RISE OF THE CREATIVE CLASS …
Richard Florida,

Global Leadership: A Spiral Dynamics Integral perspective

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Spring 2005

•  OD Professional Conference – Stories from the Field
•  Forum – The Future of Governance

Presence – Human Purpose and the Field of the Future

By Peter Senge et al.

Global Leadership: A Spiral Dynamics Integral perspective

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Winter 2004

•  CfOD Assists with Department's Initiative – Loddon Murray Young People's Working Party
•  Profile Mark Moore and Team Management Systems

Leadership and the New Science

By Margaret Wheatley

 

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Summer 2004

•  The Shared Journey – Graduate Development
•  Profile Elaine Sowerby and Talent Management

The Set-up to Fail Syndrome

How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail

By Jean-Francois Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux

Traditions, Transitions and Transformations

Spring 2003

•  Emotional Intelligence
•  Profile – Elspeth Sharp

Good Business

Leadership Flow and the Making of Meaning

By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Learning to Learn

Winter 2003

•  Peer Support Program Live Online
•  Recipe for Managerial Courage by Matt Minahan
•  Profile – Suzanne Loubris
•  Internal Consultants Checklist

The Tao of Coaching

By Max Landsberg

From Silos to Systems

Summer 2003

•  $14 Million to Accelerate Learning at Docklands – Leading Innovation at TAFE
•  Choosing Business Leaders with Integrity
•  The Art of Creating Followership

The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships

By Louis J Zachary

Are you Making a Difference?

Winter 2002

•  CEOs Consider Peer Support Program
•  Attracting and Retaining Staff in Regional Australia
•  Open Space Technology

What Gives Life to your Organisation?

Summer 2001

•  Cultivating Change with Coaching
•  What is OD – Systems thinking at Work

OD Network Conference, Vancouver

Spring 2001

•  $30 Million Arts Precinct for Ballarat

Local Government Early Adopters

 
       
       
       
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