What a Good Management Skills Trainer Knows

July 22, 2011

“1.  Hand out the PLAY-DOH® and encourage participants to take a lump and play with it.”
Is this the beginning of a preschool daily lesson plan?
Or an art class activity for mums and bubs?
No.
It’s the first instruction in a training manual for Michelle Taylor’s Introduction to Management Skills Workshop!
Different Training Techniques Engage Learners’ Interest
As Michelle says, [...]

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Working to Support CRRMHQ’s Creative Livelihoods Initiative

June 16, 2011

Christine Barry, Senior Project Manager for Matrix on Board in Northern Australia, has “a fairly punishing travel schedule” these days. One of the reasons for her travels is her work supporting The Centre for Rural & Remote Mental Health Queensland in the development of Livelihood Assessment Plans for the Centre’s Creative Livelihoods initiative.
Before the month [...]

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National Disability and Carers Congress 2- 3 May

May 18, 2011

by Michael McGann
Senior Project Manager, Melbourne
On May 2 and 3 Michael McGann, Senior Project Manager in Matrix’s Melbourne office attended the National Disability and Carers Congress.  The main focus of the conference was the release of the Productivity Commissions report into a National Disability Insurance Scheme.  Here is Michael’s report on the Congress.

The National Disability [...]

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Close Encounters of a Virtual Kind

April 13, 2011

by Nuala Dent
Senior Project Manager, Matrix on Board, Melbourne
I’m excited to be presenting a paper at the ISPSO 2011 Annual Meeting in June. The theme of the conference is “Regeneration in Organisations: Psychoanalytic Perspectives” and my presentation will be based on research undertaken in 2010 on a virtual large study group (VLSG), and the application [...]

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Matrix Built on Strong Client Relationships

March 16, 2011

by Nonie Wales
Matrix on Board Managing Director for People and Culture
Strong relationships with clients are at the heart of Matrix’s business.  Strong relationships are what our business is built on and relies on in order to be successful.  Strong relationships with clients means the people we work with – the staff in non-profits and social [...]

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Darwin’s New Client Manager

March 16, 2011

by Leah Gardiner
Matrix on Board Client Manager
Hi. My name’s Leah and I’m the new Client Manager in Darwin. I mentor three organisations in the Top End of Australia, these being Mangretta, Tiwi Islands and Yirrkala.
Before I became a Client Manager I was employed by Laynhapuy Homelands as a Money Management Worker. I was shown the [...]

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“What if we did it differently?”

February 16, 2011

By Michelle Taylor, Matrix on Board General Manager, Darwin
This was the subject line of an email that I sent out to some of my colleagues in Matrix last August. I had just finished two days of ’speed dating’ style business plan reviews with Aboriginal Art Centre managers at the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. ANKAAA had [...]

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Financial Literacy Education

December 16, 2010

1 December
by Nonie Wales, Managing Director for People and Culture
Financial Literacy Education does change lives.  When individuals and groups have the knowledge and confidence to better manage their finances, the world changes.  The global financial crisis has its roots in individuals and groups not fully understanding their finances and making ill-informed decisions. 
Matrix on Board provides [...]

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Pump session, Boost Breakfast Darwin

September 8, 2010

Monday 6 September
by Nonie Wales, Managing Director for People and Culture 
Equipped with mega-sized coffees at The Boatshed Café in Darwin, a small team of dedicated ‘gym buddies’ kick-started the week with a Boost Breakfast led by Michelle Taylor, Matrix’s General Manager Northern Australia.
Warm up exercises: name three things you and your organisation are proud of [...]

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Overcoming the ‘Cultural Cringe’

August 5, 2010

By: Nick Corrigan, Senior Project Manager Sydney
Like the majority of white, British males I have an inflated sense of the importance of my position in the world. The English education system and the BBC do this to us – they remind us that our nationality and gender have been disproportionately influential for much of modern [...]

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