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OUR BUSINESS
We have been amongst the pioneers working
on more personalised, enterprise-driven approaches to professional development
and training in Australia.
Because of the nature of our business - focusing on workplaces, education
agencies, families and communities - we have a wide cross-section of services
and products. Some are accredited qualifications while others are consultancies
or professional development activities. All are available to all sectors.
A theme of triple bottom line sustainable development is incorporated
in all programs.
STRATEGIC FOCUS
Beliefs
We believe we commit our personal and professional talents, skills and
resources to improving the human condition.
We believe that the world is an interdependent system where people, their
work and the environment need to operate in harmony.
We believe we make a contribution to society by being financially independent
and accountable for our work.
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OPERATIONS
Focus
Our synthesis of leadership, management and governance literature, suggests:
•in periods of rapid discontinuous change, we need constancy of values
and purpose to focus of our efforts while retaining maximum flexibility
of response
•capacity to deliver programs that develop the capabilities required
to address clients needs are enhanced by the culture, structures and systems
we create
•image is a product of demonstrated performance
We believe the most significant contribution
we can make for our clients is to:
•model highly principled , innovative planning, doing and reflective
systems to govern our internal operation
•share our learning about leading and managing our own business.
CAPABILITIES
Recent Achievements
•Use of MYOB to track individual program and project performance
and graph results to inform decision making.
•Establishment of an internal Social Auditing system to report on
our performance.
•Initiation of a "greening gild" program
to explore ways of reducing the ecological footprint of our operation.
Strategic Initiatives for 2003- 2004
•Establish a clear identity statement for gild and align our behaviours
to that intention
•Simplify and align planning, doing, measuring and reporting systems
•Build and maintain business driven alliances that add total value
to our focus areas
•Measure our results in terms of the Triple Bottom Line
•Build gild staff capability to lead business development
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