The Victorian Public Service has three more meeting facilitators. Sharon Donnelly from Planning & Community Development and Grace Blau and Shiraz Engineer from Sustainability & Environment
The methods utilised by these facilitators were those recently described by Dr de Bono in his presentation to CIN members as essential in adapting to, and thriving in a very different and rapidly changing world, where more traditional thinking methods are less effective.
All three have now practically applied the de Bono thinking methods in work based facilitations designed to enhance the group thinking, provide a focused approach and ensure group sessions are more productive. The assessments undertaken were a action based learning follow up from formal training in the Six Thinking Hats.
Some of the Government topics the methods have successfully applied to have been:
- Reviewing processes for developing business systems manuals
- Generating ideas to incorporate into the planning process
- Examining the current version on an innovation blueprint
- Identifying gaps in the blueprint and developing recommendations to address
- Generating ideas to improve the process of developing the next "Govt Progress Report"
The Institute would like to congratulate these three on their work in attaining their status as Blue Hat Facilitators and in incorporating more design thinking into the business of Government.
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