Testimonials

3rd European Conference on Intellectual Capital- University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus 18-19 April 2011

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Running a World Knowledge Cafe for participants on the topic

'What Intellectual Capital Ideas and Developments Do You Expect to Live and See?'

'...Look forward to the opportunity of working with you again.'

Sue  Nugus
Conference Director
Academic-Conferences, South Oxfordshire, UK

and from the Participants:

• Great - unfortunately too little time
• Great exchange of perspectives
• Was a good experience. I had a good brainstorming session
• Creative and playful - very enjoyable

    

 

Alexandrina Council

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Alexandrina Council Testimonial – 28 July 2009

 

"Thanks our experience on the Wednesday was most enjoyable."

 

Karen Rokicinski
Team Leader – Environmental Health
Alexandrina Council

 

 

 

ALPMA

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Australian Legal Practice Management Association (South Australia) ALPMA Seminar - July 2008

 

The Best Feature of the Presentation Workshop was:

• The method of involving all participants
• Sharing of knowledge
• Ideas/communication
• Other peoples’ ideas
• Networking – discussion
• Practical application
• Interactive Nature
• Interacting with other attendees
  
  

Knowledge Management Presentations

Feedback from participants at The Australian Legal Practice Management Association (SA) on the topic of 'Learning to Share - Helping Lawyers Come to Grips with KM '

 

• 'the best feature of the presentation was the interaction between participants'
• 'the message being reinforced with regard to what you really already know. Gives you an incentive to take up active pursuit of this (Knowledge Management) again'
• 'the speaker was extremely knowledgeable and was cognizant of the challenges surrounding the introduction of KM in law firms ie knowledge sharing etc'

 

 

Ark Group

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Ark Group Testimonial – 15 February 2007

 

"You did a great job of guiding the delegates through the two days, and it was great weaving the interactive elements of the café into the programme."

 

Jacqueline Garcia
Head of Production
Ark Group

 

Ark Group testimonial – 12 August 2009

"The K-Cafe was certainly one of the highlights as it was an ideal way to ‘wrap up’proceedings on day one, and a great opportunity for delegates to meet and speak with each other before the second day of presentations.
Thanks again for all your hard work and we hope to work with you again very soon."

 

Valerie Moerbeck
Head of Production
Ark Group

 

 

 

Carer Support

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Carer Support Testimonial – 4 November 2008

 

1.       People were appreciative of the fact that they were able to have their say about raising the awareness of the issues  
          impacting on them.

2.       People felt included and consulted in setting directions and in identifying strategies to address the gaps.

3.       Everyone enjoyed the sessions and believed it enabled the outcomes of the day to be achieved.

          
Regards

Peter Sparrow
Chief Executive Officer
Carer Support

 

 

 

 

Coffey

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Coffey International Development, in association with the Canadian Urban Institute, engaged Dr Helen Paige to prepare and facilitate a Knowledge Cafe workshop in Manila to address two critical areas for our AusAID program - how donor organisations can improve coordination to maximise use of limited resources; and how to develop partnership approaches to ensure interventions deliver maximum benefit. The objective was to generate as many ideas as possible by exposing participants to meaningful discussions at all levels through a series of targeted questions. The main problem in the past has been that key experts in this area have become saturated in their thinking by continuous workshops and conferences and hence a new, more stimulating approach was needed. Dr Paige designed a workshop and series of questions that took advantage of the culture of the participants to socialise and talk, while providing the stimuli to ensure they stayed alert during proceedings and contributed new and exciting ideas in the process. Following the workshop, Dr Paige worked with the team to synthesise the results and distribute a summary of ideas to all participants within 24 hours.  Participants commented on this positive and uplifting approach and all felt like they made a valued contribution to something worthwhile. For Coffey it enabled the company to extract many more ideas within a shorter time period than conventional workshop approaches, and it has now been developed and used in other regions and activities.

Cheers

 

David Goodwins
Project Director
Geospatial Information Systems

'Just a short note to thank you for your valuable inputs into our KM activity relating to the LGDP project in the Philippines.

As you know, this was out first attempt to come to grips with the "active harvesting of knowledge" from an ODA project as it entered its final stages of activity.

The results of the Cafe methodology were judged as very positive by the stakeholders/ partners involved. We believe your guidance and oversight of the process proved critical in ensuring our company's investment in time and money was productive and useful.

I hope you find the resources developed as an outcome of this activity of interest.

I have just returned from PNG where we rolled out a country-wide KM strategy involving all our AusAID funded projects. Again the KM Cafe methodology was fully discussed and applied as a useful tool for the effective management of "lessons learnt" during the project life cycle.

Once again, our sincere thanks for your contributions to our ongoing work in this area.'

 

Best wishes

 

BOB WILSON                                             
Knowledge Manager                                
Coffey International Development        

 

 

 

KM Energy, Engineering and Resource Sector

Perth, 19-20th October 2011

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Ran a World Knowledge Cafe for participants

Feedback from attendees:-

"Excellent discussion and sharing information tool"

" Great way to end the event"

" Helen is obviously very passionate about the concept- it shows!"

 

 

 

O'Loughlins Lawyers

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We are building on this and appreciate your help in getting us started.

 

Peter Myhill
Partner
O'Loughlins Lawyers

 

 

 

           

Port Adelaide and Enfield Council

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Port Adelaide and Enfield Council Testimonial – 2008

"The Knowledge Café was a very useful tool for identifying key issues by individual members within the team in a non-threatening manner."

 

 

 

 

Tafe SA

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Tafe SA Testimonial – 5 August 2008

 

Dear Helen,

 

Re: TAFESA Professional Development Day

 

We want to thank you for all the time you put into facilitating the Professional Development Day for our staff on 4 July 2008 at Uleybury Wines.

Your commendable efforts on the day ensured a successful outcome for the Business Services team. You were able to energise a very diverse group of people in a creative and efficient manner. The day was facilitated in a highly professional style and your attention to detail was appreciated.

We would be delighted to use your services again in the future and highly recommend your services to any organisation with complete confidence.

Yours sincerely

 

Christine Medlin & Dr Baljit Bhela
Educational Managers
Business Services

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For tailored, personalised and high impact consulting, contact Dr Helen Paige at AKN.