Please leave a public comment below, or email your thoughts to admin@councilofsocialservices.org.nz.

You may also like to click through to the Red Cross’ Earthquake Anniversary page and Facebook updates, and the New Zealand Government’s Quake Stories website.

Kia kaha Christchurch.

The Department of Preventive and Social Medicine in association with the Public Health Association Otago/Southland present a series of public health seminars:

Going on strike can be good for you
Thursday 23 February 2012, 12:10pm – 1pm
Chris Trotter

Deep change and adolescent mobility health
Thursday 1 March 2012, 12:10pm – 1pm
Professor Hank Weiss, Injury Prevention Unit, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine

Effective food labelling: Improving nutrition through individual responsibility
Thursday 15 March 2012
Dr Rachael McLean, Edgar National Centre for Diabetes Research, Medical and Surgical Services

Ageing, body composition and physical function: Research in France and the USA
Thursday 29 March 2012
Dr Debra Waters, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine

Hope for older people with chronic illness
Thursday 12 April 2012
Professor Chad Boult, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA

Beyond malaria: Addressing febrile illness in sub-Saharan Africa
Thursday 26 April 2012
Professor John Crump, Centre for International Health, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine

Topic TBA
Thursday 10 May 2012
Dr Simon Horsburgh, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine

Using the eyes in the back of our heads: A qualitative analysis in child safety
Thursday 24 May 2012
Dr Jean Simpson, Injury Prevention Unit, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine

All seminars are held in Room 033, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Adams Building, Frederick Street, Dunedin.

TechSoup New Zealand provides donated and discounted technology products and services from companies such as Microsoft, Symantec, and SAP to eligible New Zealand charities, and voluntary and community groups with charitable status. Via this program your organisation can access the latest products as either donations or discounts.

TechSoup has a new range of refurbished computers available now.

• Do you or your family and friends use health services at home, in the community, or through the Southern DHB? Are they working as you want them to? Is there room for improvement?
• Do you want an opportunity to inform and be informed about issues affecting older people?
• Do you want to see communication, consultation and exchange of information increased?

Otago Partners for Elders’ Needs (OPEN) is a forum concerned with the well-being of older people. The forum recognises the need for incrase collaboration and communication between all involed with services of older people.

OPEN is looking for people who want to have a voice and active involvement because they themselves receive health services. OPEN wishes to establish a consumer focus group. This group would fulfil a number of roles:

• Awareness – Identifying issues affecting the health of older people gaps, and deficiencies in services.
• Accountability – Holding individuals,m groups and organisaitons accountable for integration and imprpvbement of services to older peopelp.
• Ensuring the consumer voice is included in advocacy and feedback about policies and issues affecting older people’s health services.
• Providing opportunity for consumer comment and recommendation in the process of various projects including the development, implementation, and monitoring of services.
• Developing terms of reference for the group.
• Identifying three consumer group representatives to attend and participate in monthly OPEN provider network meetings.

If interested, please contact Age Concern Otago:
Phone 03 477 1040
Email agecon@ageconcernotago.co.nz

The partners of Dunedin Central Community Link are holding an open day so that people in the community can find out about Community Link, what it is and how it works.

Community Link involves many organisations, government and non-government, working together in the same location for the good of their clients. It provides an opportunity for agencies to develop relationships to ensure their common clients get access to a range of support and services. This means people, their families and communities can more easily access the help and support they need.

Open Day 1 March 2012
Public drop-in session 2pm – 4pm
Work and Income (Ministry of Social Development), corner of Castle and St Andrew Streets, Dunedin.

Further information is available in the attached flyer: Community Link Open Day (PDF; 272 KB)

Child abuse is the nation’s single most important public health challenge affecting communities, business, justice, health, education, and social services. It is estimated that one million people are either currently suffering abuse or living with the long term effects of past child abuse. This affects all of us one way or another.

Child Matters encourages citizens to:

• Increase awareness of the issue and create an environment where people are talking about child abuse.
• Provide people in a position to help with the skills to be able to do so.
• Create a society where child abuse is not tolerated and where everyone takes responsibility for keeping our children safe.

How about adding a new year’s resolution to do one thing that will make a difference to a child?

Raise awareness about child abuse

Child abuse is everyones problem and it affects each and every one of us. It’s not just up to the authorities to stop child abuse. We all have a responsibility and a part to play.

To make this happen we need everyone to know what child abuse is, how big the problem is and that its not just ‘someone else’s problem’; that they are part of the solution.

How you can help raise awareness of child abuse:

• Talk about the issue. The more we talk about it, the less taboo it becomes. So start those conversations and lets get the subject out of the shadows.
• ‘Like’, contribute, and share content on the Child Matters Facebook page. Facebook provides an awesome opportunity to reach a huge number of people who we may otherwise not get a chance to get this issue in front of.
• Join in with others doing initiatives focused on child abuse, e.g. Buddy Day or Link Hands Against Child Abuse. Or perhaps you could start something yourself…
• Purchase a few extra copies of our resources like How Can I Tell? and make sure community groups, kindergartens, schools, churches etc that you know have a copy.

Lobby for changes in our legislation to protect children

Now is the perfect time to get the message to the Government about what you think is important in protecting our children. The Government currently has a Green Paper for vulnerable children and they are wanting feedback from us all as New Zealanders about some of the hard questions around vulnerabwle children and child abuse.

How you can lobby for changes:

• Make a submission on the Green Paper. To make it easier, we have developed a template submission that you can print-off, sign, and send in. Or, if you would like to write your own submission we have developed some key points you might like to include. All submissions need to be made by 28 February 2012, so time is ticking on this opportunity.

Source: Child Matters Newsletter

Social Service Providers Aotearoa (SSPA) have uploaded two of the presentations from the 9 February 2012 Green Paper forum, at which the Otago Museum’s Hutton Theatre was filled to capacity with attendees:

• Treasury: Addressing the funding barriers to providing effective services for vulnerable children (PDF; 1 MB)
• Dr Nicola Atwood: Does the Green Paper for Vulnerable Children Reflect Best Practice and Robust Research? (PDF; 235 KB)

Warnings – Lunchbox Series
27 February 2012
Presented by Will Martin, Employers’ Association

Payroll for Managers – Legislative Framework
29 February 2012
Presented by Rachel Brazil, Employers’ Association

A Guide to Restructuring & Redundancy | NEW
1 March 2012
Presented by Employers’ Association Legal Advisor

She’s Motivated – Small Business Promotion
2 March 2012
Presented by Lynnaire Johnston

Health & Safety Responsibilities for Managers
12 March 2012
Presented by Employers’ Association Health & Safety Adviser

Registration and Further Details

Please visit the OSEA website, www.osea.org.nz

Friday 2 March – Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Saturday 3 March – Dunedin School of Art

You are invited to attend this free one-day Symposium on Saturday 3 March 2012. A strong attendance to demonstrate that Dunedin’s arts and culture has unrecognised potential and should be prioritised and placed at the head of the queue.

Symposium Programme

The Symposium programme aims to provide inspiration and practical perspectives through several key speakers and presentations, both local and national. The hui will also offer a vehicle to gather the communities’ experience and vision for their city through two workshops led by representatives of the region’s various arts and culture sectors.

Friday 2 March 6pm
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, The Octagon, Dunedin

Opening event with keynote address by Naomi McCleary, The heART of your place: Making art
central to your community

Saturday 3 March, 10am – 4pm
Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Riego Street, North Dunedin

10:00am Mihi & Welcome / Introduction by Caroline McCaw
10:30am Speaker: Bridie Lonie, Successful Strategies: Models of Arts-centered Cities
11:00am Speaker: Arts Voice Christchurch, The River of Arts
11:30am Workshop: Location & Identity: Who Are We & What Do We Need?

12:30pm LUNCH (provided)

1:30pm Speaker: Naomi McCleary, Creative Coalitions: How The Arts Sector Can Work
Fruitfully With Local Government
2:30pm Workshop: Transforming Dunedin: What Do We Want & What Is Our Vision?
3:30pm Conclusions & Feedback

4:00pm ENDS

Presenters

Caroline McCaw is an Academic Leader at Otago Polytechnic School of Design. She loves the ways that designers and artists are constantly transforming and revealing Dunedin. Representing the Arts & Culture Working group, Caroline will outline the broad goals of the Symposium whilst explaining the context of the planning process in plain English.

Bridie Lonie teaches Art History and Theory at the Dunedin School of Art. Her interests lie in public art and the interface art in its many forms has with wider socio-economic frameworks. Bridie will examine international examples of how art and culture can successfully merge with city infrastructure.

Arts Voice Christchurch is an elected executive group working on behalf of artists to ensure their sector is an essential part of the rebuilding process. The group has created a strong vision under the banner ‘River of Arts’ and has developed several outstanding new initiatives including Arts Circus, a transitional city arts neighbourhood. Dr. Jane Gregg of Arts Voice will join us to speak of the group’s experience in Christchurch and the opportunity to place arts as a primary driver of the rebuild.

Naomi McCleary is credited with leading Waitakere City’s comprehensive arts strategy. The strategy considers the arts and involves artists into all levels of city planning and development. “I believe art must be fully integrated into the City’s fabric so that people come to accept and expect it. Sport is a given – you wouldn’t design a city without playing fields or parks, why shouldn’t it be the same for art?” Naomi will talk of the importance and practicalities of building a relationship between the arts and city planning and the nurturing of a dialogue between local government and the arts sector.

The Working Group

The Arts & Culture Working Group (Leadership Team) was established as part of Dunedin City
Council’s Your city our future consultation process. The voluntary group represents and advocates for the arts and culture communities of Dunedin City. Current members of the group are: Clare Adams, Al Baddock, Elizabeth Caldwell, Antony Deaker, Suzanne Ellison, Pip Laufiso, Bridie Lonie, Caroline McCaw, Scott Muir, Cara Paterson, Barbara Powers, Leoni Schmidt and Paul Smith. Further information about the Spatial Plan and leadership groups can be found on the Dunedin City Council’s website.

Registration

To register your attendance, simply email your full name and which events you’d like to attend: yes@transformingdunedin.co.nz

Further Information

Contact Josh Thomas, Symposium Project Manager
Phone 021 509000
Email josh@transformingdunedin.co.nz

Transforming Dunedin website

AbleOwl present a series of three Excel macros training webinars – attend any or all of them.

• Complete tasks faster by automating them.
• Make your spreadsheets easier to use.
• Save time by not having to remember a long sequence of steps.
• Reduce errors by having a macro faithfully repeat the same steps.
• Each part is 60 minutes loing
• Each part costs $99+GST (a 10% discount applies for three or more attendees on the same part)

Excel macros introduction – part 1
Tuesday 21 February 2012, 10:15 am

Create simple macros in Excel to automate common tasks. Learn how to record, edit, and understand macro code. Add buttons and shortcut keys to run the macros.

• Create a macro to apply a cell format (shading).
• Learn where to store the macro code.
• Edit the macro code in the Visual Basic Editor.
• Create a toolbar button to run a macro.
• Learn the use of range names to identify spreadsheet data.
• Create a macro to print certain reports.
• Edit the print-reports macro to enhance reliability and performance.
• Create a button on the sheet to run the macro.

Excel macros introduction – part 2
Thursday 23 February 2012, 10:15 am

Create an import application by breaking a complex problem into three steps. For each of the steps, see how to record, edit, and debug the macro code, plus how to prompt the user to enter required details.

• Create a macro that clears previously-imported data.
• Create a macro that opens a text file and imports all the data to a spreadsheet, even when the number of data rows might change.
• Use relative referencing instead of cell references.
• Create a macro that applies a filter to show only certain rows.
• Step through macros to test and debug (fix errors) line-by-line.
• Create a macro that runs the previous three macros in sequence.
• Suppress the display of unwanted prompts.

Excel macros introduction – part 3
Thursday 1 March 2012, 10:15 am

Improve the import application. Prompt the user. Use If… Then… Else logic. Loop to process data.

• Prompt for a month number.
• Concatenate text to store a filename into a variable.
• Use the Immediate Window to test and develop code.
• Display a message when a user enters an invalid month number.
• Use a For…Next loop to delete certain rows of a range.
• See other loop examples.

Prerequisites

If you start at part 1, no knowledge of macros is required, but you must be a regular Excel user. If you start at part 2 or 3, you need to be familiar with the topics covered in the previous parts.

Presenters

• Alex Shepherd – The main presenter is the editor of the Visual Basic (macros) Excel Sheet, and has extensive in-depth macro knowledge.
• Grant Anderson Editor for Instant, writer for In-depth Excel Sheets and a popular presenter.

What you get for each part

• A PDF manual and all Excel files covered by the webinar.
• 1 month free of full-functionality Excel Genie, with 10 minutes’ hotline time. (If you already have Excel Genie, you can designate another person to receive this bonus month. We will still add 10 minutes to your Genie hotline time.)

Presentation format

• See the presentation on your PC screen and hear the presenter either from your PC speakers/headphones or on the telephone.
• Type questions on the chat line during the presentation. Questions will be answered by the co-presenter.
• Stay engaged with multiple-choice quizzes.
• Test out the technology before the webinar at 3:45pm practice sessions run on Monday and Friday each week.
• Cancel up to five working days before the webinar and receive a full refund. All cancellations must be notified in writing, that is, by email, fax or post. Another delegate may be substituted at any time.

Registration

Email Helen Eschenbruch heschenbruch@ableowl.com, phone 07 854 9276, or register online.

Help Autism NZ Otago and Parent-to-Parent Otago raise their profile in the Otago Region, as well as fundraise towards our office costs for the next year.

Saturday 17 March 2012, from 8pm
Lone Star Restaurant, Princes Street, Dunedin (Upstairs Room)
$15 per ticket

Printable Flyer (PDF; 84 KB)

Connecting Communities will showcase the important role that technology plays for today’s New Zealand non-profits, charities and community organisations.

You can attend either at Christchurch on Thursday 29 February or in Wellington on Monday 5 March.

Social Development Partners are co-hosting this free one-day event with Microsoft to ensure that our member organisations and others in the sector can find out more about how technology could change the way you work.

This free, one day event brings together a range of leading presenters from community organisations as well as Microsoft to bring you a range of relevant topics.

If you’re keen to find out more about what technology can offer you, check out the event sites and register as follows:

Christchurch http://ccchristchurch.eventbrite.com.au/

Wellington: http://ccwellington.eventbrite.com.au/

You can also choose and register for one of four free workshops to be run concurrently on the day.

Numbers are limited with a maximum of two per organisation registering.

Be in today to be sure of a place or pass this onto a friend or colleague you think might be interested.

Here’s what some of the attendees at previous Connecting Communities have said:

“I was at the Microsoft Connecting Communities conference yesterday and I must commend on what a great event it was to have a giant corporate like Microsoft to take a proactive interest & move in the NGO sector…”

“…it is always interesting to hear about the tools available and even more interesting to have a group describe how they have used them. We are a small group – with an incredible output – and I am always looking for ways in which technology can help us with our goal…many thanks to you and Microsoft for proving a platform for more thought and, hopefully, positive action.”

“I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed yesterday’s event. Although I came in at a very low level of technical knowledge (!!) I was inspired by the various speakers and have acquired a much better understanding of what I need to do to progress in this area.”

So, come along and see for yourself!

University of Otago Department of Preventive and Social Medicine in association with the Public Health Association Otago/Southland present:

Going on strike can be good for you

Chris Trotter

Chris graduated from the University of Otago with a BA in History & English in 1981 and combined political journalism with political activism for more than a decade. Chris has a long history in the labour movement undertaking President and Secretary roles for the Otago/Southland Shop Employees Union and Secretary of the Otago Trades Council. Chris went on to become one of the two Industrial Representatives on the NZ Council of the Labour Party.

Chris’s unique perspective on the politics of the New Zealand Left has been recognised by the editors of the NBR, Metro, The Sunday Star-Times and the NZ Listener, as well as the papers in which his regular political commentaries now appear. For 14 years he was the proprietor and editor of the New Zealand Political Review. In 2007, Chris’s first book No Left Turn: The distortion of New Zealand’s history by greed, bigotry and right-wing politics was published by Random House. He is a regular commentator on both radio and television.

Thursday 23 February, 12:10pm – 1:00pm
Room 033, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Adams Building, 18 Frederick Street, Dunedin

All interested people are cordially invited to attend.

Note: This is the first in a series of public health seminars for 2012.

Details of the upcoming Community Services Expo in South Dunedin:

When? 11am-2pm Wednesday 22^nd February

Where? South City Mall (behind Pak’nSave), South Dunedin

What? Displays set up & people available to talk to from the following organisations:

• Active Movement
• Barnardos
• The Breastfeeding Network
• Citizens Advice Bureau
• The Early Years Hub
• Pacific Trust Otago
• Plunket
• Pregnancy Help
• Supergrans

There will be free giveaways for kids and a free raffle (one entry per family).

The University of Otago Centre for Theology and Public Issues and St Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin invite you to a public debate:

If you were Prime Minister would you sell New Zealand’s assets?

The Government is planning the partial sale of some state-owned assets, and expects to raise $5-7bn in the process. Is selling off our assets a smart move? Will New Zealanders be better off in the long-run?

Join us for an informed, provocative debate on the issues, with four distinguished witnesses presenting their evidence to an equally distinguished panel.

Panel

• Jacqui Dean MP (National Party MP for Waitaki)
• Assoc Prof Paul Hansen (Department of Economics, University of Otago)
• Hon Pete Hodgson (former Cabinet minister and ex-Labour MP for Dunedin North)
• Dene MacKenzie (Business and Political Editor, Otago Daily Times)
• Chris Trotter (Political commentator and editor of Political Review)
• Metiria Turei MP (Green Party co-leader)

Witnesses

• Dr Geoff Bertram (Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington)
• Gillian Bremner (CEO, Presbyterian Support Otago)
• Stuart McLauchlan (Vice President, Institute of Directors in New Zealand)
• Prof Robert Patman (Department of Politics, University of Otago)

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 5:15pm – 7:15pm
St Paul’s Cathedral, The Octagon, Dunedin

Printable Flyer (PDF; 105 KB)

Thursday 23 February 2012, 5:10pm to 6:30pm
University of Otago AV Studio, Owheo Building, corner of Forth and Union Streets, Dunedin

“Our Vulnerable Children”

A special Public Square discussion devoted to what must be one of the most pressing concerns in New Zealand today – the appalling record of child maltreatment and death in this country, and what should be done about it.

Joining Professor Andrew Bradstock in the University’s AV Studio will be an expert panel including Chris Trotter, Professor Mark Henaghan (Dean of Law, Otago, and specialist on laws protecting children), Jenny Munro (Otago Youth Wellness Trust, who works directly with some of the most troubled of Dunedin’s children and families), and Dr Pauline Gulliver (Injury Prevention Research Unit, Otago University, who recently co-authored an international comparative study on the maltreatment of children in such ‘progressive’ nations as Canada, the UK and NZ).

Please come and be part of the live audience in the studio, or watch live online – and encourage others to do so anywhere in the country – at:

www.otago.ac.nz/its/mediaproduction/streaming/mpstudio.html

A Managers of Volunteers Networking Meeting is being held tomorrow, Wednesday 15th February 2012, from 12:30pm to 1:30pm at Dunedin Community House.

This year the meetings will be located downstairs in the Brian Arnold Room.

Professional speaker Amy Scott is running one- and three-day communication courses in Cromwell on 25, 26, and 27 February 2012.

1 Day Course: Communication

If you want to become a communications expert or are looking for a deeper understanding of why you feel, think and act the way you do, or you simply want to improve your communication skills – then the one-day course is for you!

Feel free to bring along a couple of staff members with you (discounts are available for bulk bookings).

3 Day Course: Facilitator Training

If you are keen to do an odd day here and there (or more if you like) co-facilitating with a licensee, then the three-day facilitator training is for you. You are not locked into ‘having to co-facilitate” at any time – its completely up to you and your availability at the time as to whether you wish to help with co-facilitating.

It may just be another string to your bow; something else for your CV. This is also your chance to meet the amazing David Dickson who spent 20 years of his life creating “dots”. David doesn’t facilitate many courses now – so this truly is a fabulous opportunity to learn from the horses mouth… so to speak!

Registration

Spaces are limited so please contact Pam Wallace ASAP to register:

Phone/text 027 284 5966
Email pamela@lifeperformance.co.nz

For general enquiries, please contact Amy Scott:

Phone/text 027 368 8464
Email amy@amyscott.co

Further details are included in the attached document: Dots Training (PDF; 312 KB)

This book, by Vivian Hutchinson and the New Zealand Social Entrepreneur Fellowship, is being published in free fortnightly instalments at www.nzsef.org.nz/howcommunitiesheal.

A printed book edition of this project can be purchased at our bookstore online at tinyurl.com/hchbooksales for NZ$45 (+postage and packaging).

Electronic books, including Kindle, iPad, and PDF editions, are available for sale at tinyurl.com/hchebooks.

For bulk book orders (eg. for committees or trust boards) please contact howcommunitiesheal@nzsef.org.nz.

Entries are now open for the TrustPower Dunedin Community Awards. We need your help to make sure your community’s hard-working volunteers get the recognition they deserve.

Volunteers are the driving force behind all of New Zealand’s communities. TrustPower and the Dunedin City Council understand this and want to recognise and reward the outstanding contribution volunteers make to the Dunedin community through the TrustPower Dunedin Community Awards.

These Awards are open to any voluntary group or organisation. Right now we are calling for entries for the Awards. Anyone can enter a voluntary group for the Awards – voluntary groups can even enter themselves.

The TrustPower Community Awards are not grants – they are given to recognise work undertaken by volunteers and reward them for their efforts. This year TrustPower has more than $5,000 in prize money for the winning voluntary groups. The group named Supreme Winner at the TrustPower Dunedin Community Awards will also represent the region at the 2012 TrustPower National Community Awards, being held in March 2013.

So, how do you enter a group for the TrustPower Dunedin Community Awards?

Simply select this link - http://www.communityconnect.co.nz/en/Forms/Nominate%20Online.aspx - to the TrustPower Community Connect page and fill out the entry form, or phone Jess Somerville on 0800 87 11 (nomination over the phone). What have you got to lose?

For more information on the TrustPower Dunedin Community Awards see your local Council office or service centre, go to www.trustpower.co.nz, or call Jess Somerville on 0800 87 11 11.

Help us to celebrate the unsung heroes in your community – enter them in the TrustPower Community Awards!

7 March 2012 – Wellington only

New Zealand has changed. Has your organisation kept pace?

The goal of this workshop is to help community and voluntary sector organisations gain a better understanding of key issues currently impacting the sector. A panel of speakers will provide a breadth of valuable analysis, as well as new ideas for growing your organisation in ways you may not have considered.

Who will find this workshop useful

• Community and voluntary sector managers, and governing body members who:
• Set organisational direction
• Are closely involved in spotting both risks and opportunities
• Need to know how best to communicate messages to public, donors and beneficiaries
• Must brief others with the best information available on current trends and issues facing the sector
• Public sector workers who:
• Work closely with community and voluntary sector organisations
• Need to understand the sector’s views to develop responsive policy, funding arrangements or supportive opportunities.

Presenters

• Anna Kominik (Ideas Shop)
• Bert Aldridge (Small But Mighty)
• James King (Department of Internal Affairs)
• Sue Cooper (Prometheus Finance)

Venue

• School of Public Health, Newtown, Wellington

Price

• $195 for not-for-profit organisations (includes GST, lunch, and tea)
• $395 for public sector (includes GST, lunch, and tea)

To find out more, please visit the Development Action website. Places are limited for this workshop, so we encourage you to book early.

Contact Lee Sentes (email lee@developmentaction.co.nz) with any questions.

VJ Henderson Associates are running the following two courses in Dunedin in February and March 2012:

How to Manage Behaviours & Attitudes

22 February 2012

Aims:

• To assist all managers and front line team leaders to deal with personality behaviours which disrupt the working environment and create disharmony to the team.
• To assist people who have to deal with demanding and difficult colleagues, external contacts and customers.

Content:

• What is the difference between personality and behaviour?
• Which should you manage?
• What types of people do we have to deal with?
• Welcome to the animal kingdom
• The sheep – loses direction
• The donkey – is stubborn
• The puppy – needs attention
• Learning to understand people
• Domestication and conditioning
• Dealing with conflict
• Professionalism
• Dealing with your emotions
• First impressions are not always real
• Management vs leadership
• How to set measureable standards in behaviour
• Changing behaviour
• DOPE test – a fun self behavioural assessment

The Course for Team Leaders

20 – 21 February 2012 and 5 – 6 March 2012

Aim:

• To enable Team Leaders and Managers to understand and utilise the skills required to be more effective in today’s workforce through effective planning and management of staff and processes. These key personnel have hands-on control of output and quality, and can significantly influence productivity and therefore profitability in the organisation.
• Those attending will be given instruction and the tools to work through specific issues for implementation of action on the return to work. A practical experiential training programme within a supportive environment for people that allows participants to personally analyse and develop skills.

Level:

• An essential programme designed for all Team Leaders, First Line Managers, Supervisors, Production Managers, Operation Managers and Project Managers. A workshop for any people who have the responsibility of planning and controlling staff in the achievement of goals.

Content:

• The Changing Role of the Team Leader
• Conflict reduction and resolution
• Goal Setting – in performance and behaviour
• Performance Management
• Legislation -2012 requirements
• Delegation – tools for effectiveness
• Managing Change – planned/sudden
• Instructing a learner
• Communication – establish and maintain
• Re-instructing an experienced worker
• Handling relationship problems
• Imparting information to others
• Leadership – 4 Keys Styles
• Team Development – 9 Building Blocks

Benefits:

• Exposure to current thinking and practices in management development.
• Opportunity to learn and practice skills in a supportive and participative environment
• A full set of comprehensive handout material for on-going reference
• Improved productivity – Increased profitability
• Reduced frustration – Improved confidence
• Post workshop support

Registration

Please telephone Viv or Marilyn if you would like further details on either of these courses:

VJ Henderson Associates
Training and Management Consultants
PO Box 1687, Dunedin
Phone 03 453-4202
Email: vj.henderson@xtra.co.nz
Website: www.vjhenderson.co.nz

Early Bird Specials close 20 February 2012 for:

1. The Skills of the Effective Team Leader

20-22nd March 2012, 9am – 4:30pm
Subsidised Not for Profit Rates: $575+GST (reduced from $995+GST) / $449+GST early bird special (reduced from $449+GST)

Increase your confidence, skills & potential as an effective team leader. Discover your
key strengths, default leadership style, when different leadership styles are most
valuable & the skills & characteristics that make a truly effective leader.

2. The Essentials of Appreciative Inquiry

12-14th March 2012, 9am - 4:30pm
Subsidised Not for Profit Rates: $575+GST (reduced from $995+GST) / $449+GST early bird special (reduced from $449+GST)

The purpose of Appreciative Inquiry is to build on the root causes of success – not of
failure,to build on our strengths – not our weaknesses. This dynamic, proactive approach
is highly effective in: Personal, team & leadership development, strategic planning, change
management, organisational development, education & training, supervision, mentoring
& coaching, conflict management & performance management/reviews.

Subsidised Not for Profit rates for 2012

ONLY $449+GST for the full 3 days if booked & paid by 20th February, or $575+GST if booked after 20 February 2012.

Full details are available on the Free Spirit Training website and in the attached documents:

• Skills of the Effective Team Leader (PDF; 352 KB)
• The Essentials of Appreciative Enquiry (PDF; 588 KB)

“The complex Social issue of sexual violence requires a coordinated, resourced, well led and embedded response across the social, health, education and justice systems and in partnership with the community sector” (Taskforce for Action on Sexual Violence, 2009).

The aim of this workshop is to increase awareness of our justice system response to sexual violence, with a focus on supporting individual and family victim/survivors.

Please see the printable flyer and registration form (PDF; 570 KB) for further information.

Presenters

Detective Sergeant Stuart Harvey – Police Child Protection Investigation Team

Detective Harvey will discuss the role of the Child Protection Investigation Team (CPT), sexual offences and the law in the Crimes Act 1961, penalties in Law; summary of the court process, disclosures, investigation hearings, affidavits and child witnesses.

Dr. Vili Sotutu – Consultant Paediatrician

Dr Sotutu, Southland Community Paediatrician, will present on sexual abuse and child protection, including the determinants for examinations, and interpretations of findings to enhance the knowledge of professionals supporting families through this process.

Dr. Kay McKenzie – Clinical Psychologist

Dr Kay McKenzie has over 20 years of experience working with children and families, specialising in interviewing young children for child abuse investigations (forensic interviews). Dr McKenzie’s presentation will cover: evidential interviews; insight into the forensic interview and discussion of the child’s experience of the process; what parents and professionals can do to support a child – including some “do’s and don’ts”; debunking some myths and everyone getting child-focused.

Mary- Jane Thomas – Crown Solicitor

Mary-Jane Thomas, Crown Solicitor since 2005, will present on the law and the requirements of the law in cases of sexual violence; the balance between focusing on the offender and the victim in court settings; and key deciding factors in laying an indictment.

Louise Nicholas – Survivor Advocate- Rape Prevention Education Auckland

Louise Nicholas is a survivor of childhood and adult rape. Ms Nicholas was a victim of a crime committed against her by serving members of the NZ Police, and is a survivor of a justice system that saw her battle her way through 2 deposition hearings and 5 court cases. Louise liaises with survivors, their families and communities. She is also on the Tauiwi Caucus of the Executive Committee of TOAH-NNEST (Te Ohaakii a Hine – National Network Ending Sexual Violence Together).