Its about knowing… Where have we been? What we have been doing? Where are we going? “ Its what you do and how you act that will define where you go” Working Together Module Number Rev V3.0 Community Management Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©

Activity Basis for the need Capture the opportunity Direction Empowerment Working together to create Better Futures Work Together Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©

Achievable Best Practice Community Directed Enveloping Work Planning Working together to create Better Futures Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©

Access Building Community Equity Culture of Understanding Diversity Empowering Process Working Together (ABCD) Working together to create Better Futures Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©

ABCD Assets – Human and Physical Constitutional, P&P, Systems in Place, Networks, CAB Approach Backup (team support) Communication taking place Development Philosophy Community Process Working together to create Better Futures Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©

TOOLS Action Learning - ABCD - Learning through process development Balance of power - Towards Governance Change - Where is your team? Direction – Where to now Environment Community Management Working together to create Better Futures Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©

A flexible, eclectic process that engages people Forms of interpersonal interaction supported through the process helps people –Overcome blockages –Extend themselves –Build confidence and competence –Synergy emerges through the growth in personal and group awareness –Participate in relationship building –Creates new linkages with people in power Ron Passfield – Chapter 4 - Action learning for Personal and Organisation Transformation Action Learning Working together to create Better Futures Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©

Alternatives Carry out actions No blame – looking at the system Leverage the risk of not changing Look at deep issues Causal Analysis Shared Vision Openness to learning Allowance for change Balance Working together to create Better Futures Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©

Change - Where is the team? A B C ROI A ForceOutcomes A Energy Boost1 Loss of Focus B Energy Loss 2 Boredom (unexpressed potential) C The Pit 3 Irritable and Frustrated 4 Culture of Complaint 5 Anxiety 6 Depression 7 Incapacity TIME Colin James, Managing Director, Altmore International – Summarised by Andy Macdonald Seeing through change

Take opportunity to slow down, listen and take the time to look at what we have done Through research develop understanding Looking at global trends Acknowledge and access alternatives Gain an understanding of certainty Whole and fundamentals Subtleties and complexities Look at ranges Direction – Where To Now Working together to create Better Futures Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©

Venues and Accessibility Forces and power Commitment What it does Show by doing Meet Personal Objectives Achievable Mission Access to Real Services Environment Working together to create Better Futures Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©

Organisations are based on presumptions of synergy Sum of the whole is greater than all the parts. Workers that make up the teams can produce a better result than each working individually Synergy grows when there is awareness, commitment to collaboration and motivation for improvement and support of endeavours Needs change agents committed to organisation improvement Closing the gap between what is espoused and what is practiced When leaders themselves are not open to learning it places constraints on the flow on effects of personal and group learning and acts to block synergy Inflexibility of the leaders seriously erodes the benefits accrued through the process Synergy Working together to create Better Futures Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©

High Road, Low Road Check-Up’s Cures worse disease Time (Slower better) Creative Solutions In Front of Trends Not “Out There” It’s we as individuals that know where were are It’s what you do and how you act that will define where you are going How you do it A B C A 1 Working together to create Better Futures Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©

Financial Year End End of Reporting Cycle Cycle of Change July 2006 Dec 2006 Working together to create Better Futures Kur-rur-ka dEsign © Predictions

Thank You Empowering People through Community Organisation Working together to create Better Futures Kur-rur-ka dEsign ©