A minimum of 20 registrants is required by Wednesday 24 September for this workshop to run. Conference attendees should register via the registration form.

Do what you’ve always done and you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. Does your organisation seek new levels through exceptional projects? Then get radical!

Peter Goldsbury offers an interactive workshop for organisational leaders, managers, project managers, and project teams willing to be radical for the day. Peter will walk you through a leadership model compatible with PMBOK that promotes organisational, team, and individual behaviours. The model, Tipu Ake, means finding and growing strength within us. Many project teams outside traditional engineering sectors are adopting this model to help them with rapid change, apparent chaos, high interconnectedness, uncertainty, opportunity, and ambiguity.

Prepare to be challenged! During this workshop you will:
• Become familiar with the Tipu Ake Model and use it to assess your own organisation, with emphasis on   prioritising multiple projects.
• Explore new tools for project initiation and risk management.
• Define visions, outcomes, and indicators in order to identify hidden opportunities.
• Discover how to drive projects by the collective wisdom of a group rather than by an individual sponsor or   project manager typical of the PMI/US approach.
• Learn techniques from case study examples to customise the model for your organisation.

The people of Te Whaiti-Nui-a-Toi where this model originated share Tipu Ake in the public domain. It can be accessed at www.tipuake.org.nz.

Peter Goldsbury, BE (Elect) Auckland, Diploma in Management Studies Portsmouth, Grad Dip in Teacher Education AUT Peter currently works in partnership with the Auckland University of Technology and others to deliver management workshops for New Zealand organisations. His old primary school and the people of Te Whaiti Nui-a-Toi have taught him more about change, innovation, and leadership than did almost a lifetime in senior engineering, project, management, educational, and organisational development roles.

Workshop 2
Integrating Risk Management Processes into Project Management
Centre for Advanced Engineering (CAE)

Dr. Dale Cooper, Principal, Broadleaf Capital International
Mike Wood, Strategic Risk Management Systems Manager, Telecom New Zealand
Kieran Devine, General Manager, Service Delivery, Transpower

Time: 1.00 – 4.30 p.m.
Venue: Rydges Hotel
Cost: $180

A minimum of 20 registrants is required by Wednesday 24 September for this workshop to run. If you are not attending the conference, please register directly with CAE. Email Sue McKenzie at sue.mckenzie@canterbury.ac.nz or telephone 03 364 2478.

While project management has developed as a specialist management activity, every project involves risk, and good project management requires establishing processes for managing risks in a systematic and consistent way throughout the life of a project. This workshop will give you an understanding of the risk management process as detailed in AS/NZS 4360: Risk Management, and how this can be implemented in conjunction with your current project management procedures. The three speakers in the workshop have extensive experience in both project management and risk management.

Dr Dale Cooper has a background in operational research, risk analyses for major projects, and interactions between organisational strategy, risk management, management information, and compliance. Dale currently runs his own consulting company, Broadleaf Capital International, offering high-level assistance and advice on all aspects of strategic and project risk management for large public and private sector clients in Australia and overseas.

Mike Wood has worked in the telecommunications industry for 25 years. In his current role as Strategic Risk Management Systems Manager for Telecom New Zealand, Mike develops and implements Telecom’s corporate policy framework, with particular responsibility for internal consultancy, tools, and methodologies for managing risk.

Kieran Devine, General Manager, Service Delivery for Transpower, has over 25 years of experience in the electricity industry both in New Zealand and overseas. He is responsible for all Construction, Maintenance, and Regional Operating on the New Zealand Electricity Grid, together with the provision of Information Technology, Telecommunications, and Procurement Services.

A question and answer session with the speakers will assist you in understanding the benefits that accrue from explicit integration of risk management and project management.

The Centre for Advanced Engineering (CAE) is an independent not-for-profit trust with the objectives of broadening national understanding of emerging technologies and raising the level of technical knowledge in matters of importance to New Zealand. Its programmes traditionally involve strong participation and support by industry, government and the engineering profession.

CAE has developed a platform of five programme areas, one of which is risk management. Many of the projects undertaken by CAE over the past 15 years have been about assessing, managing, and mitigating risk in society. In 1997 CAE adopted a more formal approach to risk management; running successful Integrated Risk Management conferences in Wellington and Auckland.