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Dame Rennie Fritchie

Dame Rennie Fritchie

– Commissioner for Public Appointments– Mainstream Development Consultant– Vice-Chair Stroud & Swindon Building

Society– Pro - chancellor Southampton

University– Hon visiting Professor York University– Gloucestershire Ambassador– Charities - Pier Piper, Winston’s Wish– Radio Producer/Presenter

Session 1•Share personal journey•Analyse your interests/intentions•Tools and techniques•Biography Questions•Decision Making Process•Work Life Balance•Dealing with Feedback

Session 2

• Getting Started• Power Bases• Influencing Styles• Assessing your Support• Creative Thinking• Partnership working

My Personal Journey

Biography Questions

1. What kind of human being do you want to be?

2. What do you want to do with your life?

1. Where are you?

2. How did you get there?

3. Where do you want to go?

4. How will you get there?

5. What will you do when you arrive?

6. Where to next?

7. How do you begin?

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Decision Making Processadapted from Ben Heirs

Stage 1

• THE QUESTION

• Formulating (or reformulating) a question and gathering information.

Stage 2

• THE ALTERNATIVES

• Creating alternative answers to the question.

Stage 3

• THE CONSEQUENCES

• Predicting the future consequences of acting on each of the alternative answers and creating the necessary contingency and hedging plans to support each alternative.

Stage 4

• THE CRITERIA

• Having considered the implication and consequence list in order, the three or four main criteria which will guide the decision.

Stage 5• THE DECISION• Evaluating the alternatives

developed in Stage 2 that survived Stage 3 in order to make a decision to act (or not act) by selecting the best alternative answer, together with the best contingency plans, to the question posed in Stage 1

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Work Life Balance

1.As soon as you get a new diary go through it and put in all your important dates -

Birthdays, Anniversaries, holidays, special events etc.

This will prevent squeezing them around your working life.

2. Say ‘NO’ early if it is something you don’t want or can’t do. If you find this particularly difficult then give an indication of your direction of travel e.g. ‘I think it is highly unlikely, but I will come back and confirm’ or ‘I don’t think it will be possible but I’ll let you know.’

3. Recognise that things always take longer than you think, so build in ‘buffer time’.

4. In times of stress or pressure, prioritise. Only do, what only you can do.

5. Separate out the important from the urgent. Tackle the urgent in fast time but give slow time to the important.

6. Give yourself entry and re-entry time between work and home. Leave ‘baggage’ behind.

7. Perfection is not always a healthy aim. Remember, “not everything worth doing is worth doing well”.

8. Guilt can be a destructive and time consuming emotion, let it go.

9. Use speed-reading to churn through the paper work. E.g. Articles - First Paragraph. Last paragraph. First line in intervening paragraphs. Books - First chapter as above. First and last paragraphs in intervening chapters.

10. Practice delegating and mandating. If you don’t have the resources and staff to do this then negotiate for more or reduce your workload. Some jobs are just too big. Don’t agree to mission impossible and then blame yourself when you can’t achieve it.

11. Remember, being part-time doesn’t mean your contribution is limited. You can be wholeheartedly and wholly present and in this way add real value. It isn’t necessary to expand your time to almost full-time on part-time salary.

12. Think about the things you do just for you and make sure you have them plentifully scattered throughout your diary.

Remember nobody loves a martyr!

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Feed Back

4 questions

•Is the feedback valid to any degree?

•Do I rate or respect the person giving the feedback?

•Is it important that I take notice?

•What action can I take without compromising my integrity?

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Session 2

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•Getting Selected

•60% Image•30% Exposure

•10% Ability

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Power Bases

1. Formal Authority2. Expertise3. Resource Control4. Personal/ Communication Skills

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Influencing Styles

•REWARDS & PRESSURES•Behaviours•Evaluation. Prescribing goals and expectations. Using incentives

•PARTICIPATION & TRUST

•Behaviours•Personal disclosure. Recognising and involving others. Testing and expressing understanding.

•COMMON VISION•Behaviours•Articulating exciting possibilities. Creating word pictures and long term visions. Generating a shared identity.

•LOGICAL PERSUASION•Behaviours•Proposing. Reasoning for and against. Using factual language.

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Assessing Your Support

Allies

Bedfellows

Opponents

Enemies

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Creative Thinking

•Plus

•Minus

•Interesting

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Partnership Working

1. Consult2. Co-operate3. Collaborate4. Co-create

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TRAVELLERby

ANTHONY MACHADOTraveller, the only way is your footsteps,

there is no other.Traveller, there is no way, you make the

way as you go.As you go, you make the way, and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never

travel again.Traveller. There is no way only foam trails

in the sea.