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Strategic planning with Board members - Drive It NQ
Motorsport facility operator Drive It NQ
The Challenge: Now that the volunteer Board has realised the first part of their vision - to start constructing a motorsport facility - how do they come up with clear priorities and next steps to guide operations?The Solution: Renée designed and delivered an interactive strategic planning session focused on setting long- and short-term goals, together with immediate actions.
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Team reconnection session
Access Therapy Services (now Apricus Health)
The Challenge: Help team members reconnect after the significant changes of COVID-19, get to know new staff members, and strengthen the team culture.The Solution: Renée facilitated a team reconnection session with engaging activities to encourage discussion.
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Stakeholder workshops
Agriculture and natural resource management stakeholders
The Challenge: How to draw out the knowledge, skills and experience of diverse stakeholders, while equalising participation and ensuring that the meeting results in clear outcomes and an agreed way forward?The Solution: Renée facilitated workshops focused on talking WITH people, rather than talking AT people, while drawing on the existing knowledge and strengths already in the room (or the paddock!)
Training videos
Volunteering North Queensland
The Challenge: Make a series of low-cost, informative short videos for Volunteering North Queensland members to help them apply for grants.The Solution: Renée recorded engaging, low-cost videos that got the key messages across in 5 minutes or less.
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Strategic planning with Board members - Everglow
Aged care provider Everglow Community Care Links
The Challenge: How to fully draw out Board members' collective knowledge, skills and experience and support their ownership of the strategic plan, while providing the CEO with clear objectives and KPIs going forward?The Solution: Renée designed and delivered a hands-on strategic planning session based on a program logic or 'theory of change' approach.
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Steering Committee decision-making
Steering Committee for the Burdekin Natural Resource Management Plan
The Challenge: How to agree on what success looks like with Steering Committee members from diverse backgrounds - government, industry, community, research?The Solution: Renée facilitated a meeting with committee members to develop a rubric - a collaborative way to define what success looks like.
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Program evaluation in community services and the education sector
Community Gro Townsville, CatholicCare Toowoomba and Independent Schools Queensland
The Challenge: How to measure the impact of programs in a structured way, and gather useful feedback from clients and delivery partners?The Solution: Renée worked with program staff to develop practical, common sense evaluation frameworks.
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Tailored program evaluation training
Independent Schools Queensland
The Challenge: How to support highly qualified and experienced professionals to apply evaluation theory and techniques to their specific work environment?The Solution: Renée ran a participant-led training session based on real-life examples from the participants' working environment, with ample time for discussion and idea generation.
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Planning day with volunteers
NQ Speedway Kart Club
The Challenge: How to facilitate a planning session for a volunteer club that results in an organised and professional Action Plan going forward?
The Solution: Renée used a structured process and expert facilitation skills to keep the discussion on track and help members make effective decisions.
Grants training for community groups
Volunteering North Queensland
The Challenge: How to help not-for-profits and volunteer groups improve their grant-writing skills, when they all have differing levels of experience and knowledge?
The Solution: Renée delivered a series of interactive workshops that met the needs of all participants and avoided the dreaded 'death by Powerpoint'!