At Ease with Cloud Accounting and BushMob

August 22, 2011

A picture can be worth a thousand words. This photo of Alex Cowell of Matrix on Board and Chris of BushMob says it all. Alex, our Client Manager for Cloud Accounting™, made a trip to our Central Australia nonprofit client BushMob recently to help complete an intensive audit preparation and annual budget session. “The CEO [...]

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Student Assessment Visit for Certificate III in Community Services Work

July 22, 2011

KICKING THE DIRT IN THE NAME OF TRAINING: a field visit to Maningrida Brad Aitken, Training Coordinator for Matrix on Board Training recently took a field trip to Maningrida, a remote aboriginal community, to assess a student enrolled in the Certificate III in Community Services Work course. “It is always exciting to experience firsthand what [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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