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2007 Current consulting projects and news 2006 Current work in 2006 2005 CURRENT CONSULTING WORK AND OTHER NEWS 2007 1. New consultants working with us this year are Sherinda Shea and Lyndon Shea. New Training consultants are Louise Osidacz and Lucia Doherty. 2. Congratulations to Dr Helen Paige who has announced the formation of The Paige Group. Helen is one of Australia leading experts in Knowledge Management and is renowned for her KM cafés and Fun food focus days. Click here to view a brochure from The Paige Group. 3. Flexible Workforce Management Conference. 4.News for Teleworkers Australia. 5. We deliver a successful tender wrting courses both in workshops in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane plus the online tender wrting course to cleints of Tender Connect (Reed). Trainers: Lyndon Shea, Phil Boyd, Margaret Aspin, Phil Walsh. 6. We deliver the same course but with a stronger grant submission focus for Infoxchange approximately every 6 weeks and also for other organisations in Health and Community Services, most recently the Bayside Division of GPS. Trainer: Margaret Aspin 7. We have the contract to deliver Care Manager training to cleints of Database Consultants Australia (DCA) and are delivering in theior Melbourne and Sydney offices. Trainers: Trevor Stone, Margaret Aspin 8. Police Academy Corporate Governance Project Evaluation. January-February This evaluation focusses on the learning journey of the Victoria Police Education Department as they bring a new Corporate Governance model into operation. Consultants: Margaret Aspin, Ron Aspin. 9. Justice of the Peace online course. January- March This course is being developed for The Department of Justice and Attorney General (Queensland) and Southbank Institute (Queensland). Project Management and Instructional Design: Margaret Aspin, Sherinda Shea. Multimedia development: Andy Bloye. 10. Mapping project for New Horizons Learning Centres. December 2006- March 2007 This project involves mapping Certificates in IT for this international training company. Project Manager: Margaret Aspin, Mapping: Trevor Stone. 11. Champion IGA Supermarkets online induction. December 2006- February 2007 plus updates in 2007. This project for IGA and SGILS involves developing the online induction program for all new staff. Multimedia: Andy Bloye. 12. We have opened two new offices in Brisbane at level 34 Riparian Plaza 71 Eagle Street Brisbane and in Adelaide at level 24 Santos House 91 King William Street Adelaide.
VICTORIAN E-LEARNING CONFERENCE 'CONVERGE' The conference is finished and was a great success. The conference showcased the Victorian Learnscope and OTTE E-learning Grant projects, other Federally funded Flexible Learning Framework projects won by Victorian TAFEs, Adult and Community Education and private Registered Training Organisations. The event was held at Victoria University Sunshine Conference Centre on October 12th and 13th. Conference site. We recently competed mapping and developing the Teacher's Guide for this new e-learning tool. The Suicide Assessment & Intervention: Men at Risk eLearning tool plus Teacher's Guide is a valuable training resource for teachers of specific units within the (CHC02) Community Services Training Package, and other Training Packages. It is appropriate to be used in several core units and elective units in nationally recognised qualifications. The tool is acknowledged as an important resource in the assessment of risk of suicide and intervention strategies and is endorsed by a range of agencies and initiatives. ( beyondblue, Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention) The teacher's guide is designed for teachers in registered training organisations who deliver units from nationally recognised training. It provides mapping documents for:
Learners in the above units may come from, or be entering into:
The tool is also suitable for several units in Public Services, Correctional Services, Health Training Packages. Interested RTOs can see a brief evaluation demo of the tool on Crisis Support's web site http://www.crisissupport.org.au/ It is best for RTOs to register interest in the tool PLUS the TEACHER'S GUIDE with Michael Ried or Tim Chamberlain at Crisis Support, as they will be able to explain cost, licensing for education and use on flexible learning labs etc etc. Michael is mried@crisissupport.org.au and Tim at tchamberlain@crisissupport.org.au Both are at 03 8371 2800. ‘SUICIDE ASSESSMENT & INTERVENTION: MEN AT RISK'
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RTO NEWS We moved into Level 27 Rialto South Tower 525 Collins St Melbourne 3000. The new office comes with excellent training rooms and is a quick walk from Southern Cross (Spencer St) Railway Station. NEW TRAINERS: TONY HUGHES AND TREVOR STONE CONSULTING NEWS - NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER PHIL WALSH, NEW MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPER ANDY BLOYE, NEW TENDER WRITER TESS EVANS, NEW CONSULTANT DR HELEN PAIGE On 23 March 2006 we became a Registered Training Organisation (RTO). All information about nationally accredited training we will deliver is now available on our new ASPIN training site.
Tony Hughes will be joining us as the trainer for Diploma of Business (Frontline Management) and the Certificate IV in Business (Frontline Management). Margaret Aspin will deliver the Diploma of eBusiness and the Certificate IV in eBusiness. Tony has been delivering accredited Frontline Management training for the last 5 years. The part he enjoys most is facilitating the exchange of experiences between participants. He finds people learn as much from each other as they do from himself. Tony has been involved with accredited training since 2001 when he joined Futurum Australia (RTO) as a Project Manager, managing the training for their key retail account, Baker's Delight. This involved delivery of both retail and frontline management training. He has been managing my own training consultancy since June 2004. Organisations provided with frontline management training by me have included Retirement Services Australia, Sensis, and the Pharmaceutical Society of Aust. Prior to entering the training industry, Tony had a long career in the clothing industry. For many years in senior management positions with companies such as Levi Strauss (as Marketing Manager) and Bluegrass Clothing (as Managing Director). During the 90's he ran his own successful clothing retail business before selling it to move into training and development. Trevor Stone Trevor Stone has joined us to deliver Certificate IV in e-Business and is currently delivering CARE MANAGER (management software for community services and health) for our client SCOPE. Trevor is a systems administrator with government, university and TAFE experience. More about Trevor is on our Training site. Phil Walsh Phil Walsh joined usin late June to be the new Business Development Manager for ASPIN training. See About Us for his bio. Andrew Bloye Andy Bloye started with us in July 2006. Andy is working on the Going Virtual web site, the OTTE funded Victorian E-learning Conference as both web designer and on the event team, and on WebCT projects. Andy has a background in hospitality management and recently undertook a career change to multimedia development. Andy continues his studies and works part-time for Aspin. Tess Evans Tess has had a long history in training management at NMIT. In fact Tess was Margaret's original manager in TAFE! Tess has now moved onto the next phase and is consulting with us, particularly high level consulting in tender writing and RTO management issues. Dr Helen Paige Dr Paige is a Knowledge Management expert and is based in Adelaide, South Australia. Dr Paige recently delivered training in Knowledge Management to our AMES NSW clients. Read about this online case study on our seminars page.
GOING VIRTUAL - The Future of Work Going Virtual was another great success this year with an outstanding line up of speakers. We've just returned from sunny Brisbane where we ran two workshops and Margaret co-chaired the Going Virtual 2005 conference. Last year our speakers were clear about the need for a focus on people not technology in virtual teams and the need for better management skills in managing virtual, remote workers. This year our speakers included Monika Altmaier from Seimens in Munich, Dr Laga van Beek from DCITA, Mike Sinclair from Shell plus many other excellent people from government, academia, vocational education and training, and industry. This year speakers focused more on Teleworking , management of remote workers, eLearning and mLearning training issues, and case stories from people working successfully in this way. This year has been a big year for teleworking in Australia , with government research, many new mobile tools available, and an interest in attracting and retaining older workers. Attendees asked our team (Margaret Aspin, Dr John Gundry from Knowledge Ability, and Kathy Nightingale from TNI) to hold another conference in 2006 as this event was seen as the premier event both organised and delivered by specialists in the field. The team are already discussing which city the conference could move to in its third year, plus some new ways to include many more from vocational education and training and academia. More about the conference at www.goingvirtual.com.au Dr Gundry visits Australia regularly and meets with government, education and training and industry. We are working with the ABC and eWorks to put the ePerformance Network online. Moodle is the tool used for this network. The network looks at perfomance management tools for Human Resources and Organisational Development managers. E-performance Network - Exploring E-tools for improving business results for training This network will explore emerging models, systems and tools for supporting the transfer of learning outcomes from training into performance improvement results in the workplace. The group will identify available e-performance tools, arrange online demonstrations and discussions, and gather case studies and lessons learned from organisations who are using these approaches. The network will be of value to anyone interested in planning, supporting and evaluating performance improvement strategies in their organisation. Contact Margaret at marasp@aspinonlineconsulting.com.au to find out more. You may also like to go to the network at http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=439 You may be asked to register before being able to log in. Margaret is on the steering committee for the Federation of Australian Agricultural Women's Teleworking project. The project aims to provide data on, and to enhance opportunities for teleworking by rural and regional women through research, the dissemination of findings to key stakeholders and the establishment of a database on the FAAW website. Visit the web site at http://www.faaw.org.au/ to discover more. Tony is working full time for the Australian Army. Tony is a Corporal in the Military Police and we are proud to release him to work for our country. Tony's other news is he graduated from RMIT in 2005, and now has yet another spectacular looking certificate to frame for the office wall. Andy Bloye is our new multimedia developer. Andy worked on the Going Virtual website, the Victorian E-learing Conference 'ConVerge' website and event team, The John Holland Group induction program, and multimedia projects in WebCT. OUR CURRENT OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS We moved into a new training office in the Melbourne CBD on October 16th 2006. The consulting arm is still based in Eltham. New details Small Business EXPO in Nillumbik 2005 We were at the business EXPO at Ashton Manor in Diamond Creek on Wednesday 19th October 2005. This was a great opportunity to meet and talk with people and businesses in the north eastern region of Melbourne and their training needs. We conducted surveys about their own or their staff's training needs, and gave hands on opportunities to find out more about eLearning and mLearning. Successful training for pharmacists, GPs and drug and alcohol workers 2005On behalf of the PSA (Vic Branch), we project managed the Pharmacists as Partners in Training Strategies on Alcohol and Licit Substances project October 2004 – June 2005. This project, funded by the AER Foundation was designed to enable health partners, in particular Pharmacists, General Practitioners and alcohol and licit drug related organisations particularly in regional and rural locations, to work in a partnership to develop training strategies. The Project Team included Margaret Aspin , Mez Wiseman , Russ Grosvenor a Pharmacist from the PSA, Paul Lumb a Drug & Alcohol Worker and Cheryl Martin an Evaluator from the Bendigo and District Division of General Practice. A Reference Committee was put together and advised the project team on the main alcohol and licit drug related issues within the Shepparton area. The reference committee and the project team were in constant communication through the use of TAFE VC. The Project was piloted in Shepparton and Wangaratta and included:
The project may roll out all over Victoria . The project has been strongly supported in the Shepparton and Wangaratta region, and the following organisations plus many more are involved in the project in some way: • Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (Victorian branch) • Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation • Bendigo and District Division of General Practice • Department of Human Services • Rumbalara Aboriginal Co-operative • Goulburn Valley Health If you would like more information about the project, contact Margaret Aspin on (03) 9431 1811 or via email at marasp@aspinonlineconsulting.com.au eHealth training for Pharmacists 2005 Margaret conducted Information Technology, eHealth and PDAs training for pharmacists around Victoria for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Victorian Branch. The eCommerce resources were supplied by Multimedia Victoria http://www.mmv.vic.gov.au/ , and information on using mobile devices for health has been brought together from a range of Australian, US and European sources. Pharmacists were able to join the PSA Vic eHealth Special Interest Group and keep up to date with the latest information and trends. This continuing education opportunity began with a grant from Multimedia Victoria. Contact Margaret Aspin to discover more about eCommerce roadshows and what Multimedia Victoria can do for your industry. Toshiba Flexible Working Guide 2005 In 2004, Toshiba sponsored research which revealed that many employers still haven't learned to trust employees they cannot see. A Flexible Working guide was then written in conjunction with a special interest group including Aspin Online Consulting. The media release of the guide states: “Toshiba was prompted to establish the Flexible Workplace Special Interest Group and develop the guide following the research it commissioned in 2004, which showed that management beliefs, including mistrust of employees, were one of the main reasons behind a slow uptake of flexible working. The difficultly in monitoring and supervising employees was perceived to be the greatest disadvantage of flexible working; in other words, many organisations simply didn't know how to manage staff when they couldn't see them. This indicated that there was scope to increase trust by using performance criteria rather than attendance-based evaluation techniques. To obtain a copy of the Flexible Working: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Flexible Workplace or the original Mobility and Mistrust report, please visit: www.isd.toshiba.com.au/sig/downloads or contact Toshiba on 13 30 70.” To find out more about how this guide matters to education and training contact Margaret Aspin marasp@aspinonlineconsulting.com.au New Practices in Flexible Learning Project 2005 We recently finished working with Chisholm Institute on their New Practices project which developed student communication packs. Our role was to facilitate and manage the Action Research process during the 7 month project. Visit the Flexible Learning Framework to discover more about this project and to see the packs. We facilitated a Learnscope professional development project this year. The project was funded by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework. Western Health and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (Victorian Branch) are two registered training organisations in health in Victoria who formed the 2005 team. The group worked on designing eLearning products for health education, designing for the TAFE Virtual Campus, looked at health Toolboxes and worked on their action research and action learning into health eLearning. The group discovered new skills for trainers, inducting, managing and assessing online plus learn about mLearning on PDAs and building an online learning community. The group did a presentation at the Learnscope conference in Ballarat on the 14 th of October http://www.ballarat.edu.au/vfed/learning_and_teaching/educational_projects/2005/learnscope/learnscope_2005.shtml The group are particularly interested in delivering the Infection Control Diseases Toolbox. View the Toolbox at http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/toolbox/series7/702.htm A state based ACPET presentation took place in Melbourne in December 2005 where the team presented a digital story of their experienced. Andrew Olivier - The Working Journey
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Andrew Olivier has arrived in Australia from South Africa and has set up his new offices for The Working Journey in Tasmania. Andrew works extensively with large firms in South Africa and Australia and has visited Australia over many years. He just grew to love the place! Andrew was one of our critical friends at our company dreaming day in 2004 and went on to deliver training to us and our colleagues. Download the latest news from The Working Journey. It is packed with excellent information of interest to CEOs, senior managers and HR professionals. 