Welcome to a network of community service leaders! As a program participant, you will gain valuble insights from key strategic thinkers in a series of intensive workshops to navigate your organisation through the complex world of resourcing, politics and stakeholder management. This program is peer facilitated by Simone Zell (TasCOSS) with guest facilitators Mel Maddock (Madfinch Consulting), Kym Goodes (3P Advisory) and Rhys Edwards (RDME Consulting). The program schedule includes regular Community of Practice sessions to reflect and embed what you have learned.
Skills, Knowledge and Attitude — each workshop will focus on a particular area of strategic thinking and navigation with the aim to provide skills, knowledge and resources. Networking, Attitude and Support — each Community of Practice will provide opportunities to reflect and embed workshop resources and connect the participants. They will be exploratory discussions led through powerful questions. Program Schedule: Community of Practice 1: Meet and Greet 12noon-1:30pm, Thursday 8 April 2021 via Zoom Video Conferencing Workshop 1: Power with Mel Maddock (Madfinch Consulting) 11:30am-2pm, Thursday 29 April 2021 at Moonah Arts Centre Community of Practice 2: Reflection 12noon-1pm, Thursday 13 May 2021 via Zoom Video Conferencing Workshop 2: Advocacy with Government with Kym Goodes (3P Advisory) 11am-1pm, Thursday 27 May 2021 at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (Education Pod) Community of Practice 3: Reflection 12noon-1pm, Thursday 10 June 2021 via Zoom Video Conferencing Workshop 3: Judgement and Decision-Making with Rhys Edwards (RDME Consulting) 11am-1pm, Tuesday 29 June 2021 at TBC (Hobart) Community of Practice 4: Final Reflection 12noon-1:30pm, Thursday 8 July 2021 via Zoom Video Conferencing Page | 1
Workshop 1: Power with Mel Maddock (Madfinch Consulting)
Mel Maddock is the Director of Madfinch Consulting and a former political advisor. In her workshops, she helps people understand how power works in relationships and in systems. Participants come away feeling inspired with the practical tools to make a difference in their organisations and communities. We can all feel powerless sometimes, but you are more powerful than you know. In this session, you will learn how to use your personal power to be a leader who empowers others. You will gain insights into: The way power works and how to use it for good, The importance of emotional health for today’s leaders; and Your own personality using the Enneagram. You will identify your own adaptive leadership challenge that you will seek to address over the course of the program. Workshop 2: Advocacy with Government with Kym Goodes (3P Advisory)
Kym Goodes, the Principal of 3P Advisory, is recognised as one of the foremost public voices in Tasmania. She has two decades of experience working in government and the not-for-profit sector in social and economic public policy fields as diverse as education, employment, transport, energy, digital inclusion, health, housing and human services. She has worked across both the public and private sectors as a sought-after adviser, specialising in public engagement and evidence informed policy and program responses. What is the social policy vision or problem you want to advocate on? Who owns the problem or who is responsible for making a new ‘vision’ happen? In this interactive online workshop, we will explore: The strategic policy triangle — what is it and why does it matter in advocacy? What is your pitch? — where, who, how and when to pitch, Your inside/outside strategy; and What is your long game? Workshop 3: Judgement and Decision-Making with Rhys Edwards (RDME Consulting)
Rhys Edwards is a consultant, board director and leadership development professional with a particular focus on the government, university and not-for-profit sectors. Rhys loves working with organisations working to secure a better future. He works helping to develop leaders across public sector organisations in Australia and is a Director of the national Foyer Foundation, focused on housing solutions for youth at risk of homelessness. Our myths of heroic leadership imbue the leader with all the answers, wisdom and experience that is necessary for the task at hand. The reality is much more complex. How do we make decisions? What criteria do we use? How do we weight the factors that are important to decisionmaking? What lessons can we learn from decisions that resulted in poor outcomes? How do we ensure we have enough diversity of thinking perspectives in our teams? In this interactive session, Rhys will explore the nature of judgment and decision-making in leadership roles. He will draw on work of national and international thought leaders in this field and examples from his career running large and complex organisations. Page | 2