Learning Leadership at Harvard

by FIONA GRINGEL
Programs and Services Portfolio Manager

Imagine being seated in a large auditorium at a prestigious university. You are with a group of very smart, very successful people who are seeking to get better at what they do. The professor walks to the front of the room, and asks a very simple question: ‘Where do we begin?’ As people in the group shout out what they think the teacher wants to hear, he writes these things on the board. He neither comments on them nor adds to the ideas ... he just writes.

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70:20:10: buzzword or effective learning approach?

by KELLY KAJEWSKI
Alliance Director

Think of one event that has had a significant impact on your learning. Where did this event happen? In the classroom, a seminar or a workshop? Or when you were attempting to complete a task?

The 70:20:10 model has gained significant momentum in Learning and Development circles both in Australia and internationally. There are many interpretations of 70:20:10 and it has been given a number of labels including model, principle, ratio, approach, method and rule.

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Which way does your ethical compass point?

by PROFESSOR GREG WOOD
Head of Deakin Warrnambool Campus

Greg Wood is a Professor in the School of Management and Marketing at Deakin University in Warrnambool, Australia and the Head of the Warrnambool campus. He is running a long-term research study in seven countries that looks at codes of ethics in the top 500 companies in the private sector and at what they have put in to place to make them operational. His other main research interest is in cause-related marketing.

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Five minutes with Angie Taras

Angie Taras is the Director of Client Relations at DeakinPrime. Angie is accountable for new business development, collaborative  development with Deakin’s faculties, solutions consulting and market communications.

Interested in learning more about Angie? Then watch this short video where Angie shares what she has learnt over the last 10 years while working at DeakinPrime.

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Expert calls for greater transparency in super funds

by PROFESSOR GRAEME WINES

A Deakin University accounting expert is supporting recent calls by CPA Australia for an overhaul of Australian superannuation fund reporting, and is using the situation facing the fund of which he is a member to drive home the point.

Professor Graeme Wines is a member of UniSuper, the superannuation fund for Australian universities, which recently advised members of a potential shortfall in its defined benefit fund.

"But I am incensed that members are not receiving the necessary information to assess the extent of the potential shortfall," Professor Wines said.

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