With the most recent Covid 19 lockdowns Cabonne Shire Council had even more obstacles to navigate to get them to where they need to be. With the Council’s aim of …
… building the capabilities of their Leaders was made harder by the fact the planned training, mentoring and skill development (face to face) was now increasing personal health and safety risk due to Covid. Thus they needed a different approach!
Three of their Leaders piloted a blended program consisting of Action Feedback Trigger based Activities with live online mentoring sessions. Learning and skill development was still individual, they still practised in their environment, however they then collectively reviewed their progress, discussed learnings and made adjustments to their next steps. The trio are close to finalising their Activities and this is the feedback about 2 weeks ago from one.
What I got most from this was we are all following the same Activities but in different areas of operations and I benefited a lot from discussing all our responses together. (Charlie Harris, Cabonne Shire Council. Charlie’s group was doing the Frontline Leader Quest.)
Find out more about the blended program here (2nd row down).