Jean Roberts

Jean Roberts: Research

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• One of my early lessons as a Trainer
• Knowledge and information transfer – how and why technology is a major problem
• 5-Levels of Quality Maturity in Nonprofit Board Performance
• In-house Research begins with an Archaeological Dig of your Organisation
• Making Ethics Work – Free Trial
• Opportunities for innovation abound in these ‘tough times’
• The critical link between Governance. IT/Technology, Staff Competencies and Resource Availability.
• Practical and Useful Hints for Demographers, Researchers, Marketers, Company Directors and Nonprofit Boards – website and conversation feedback
• Board Chairpersons need to understand how their Board Members talk
• Management Styles in SMEs and Nonprofit Organisations
• Guiding Principles relating to Measurable Consumer Outcomes
• Practical and useful hints – for Demographers, Researchers, Marketers, Company Directors and Nonprofit Boards
• Jean’s Making Ethics Work Checklist launch
• Jean’s Checklist: Making Ethics Work – Leaders and Managers must manage relationships within their workplace.
• Jean’s Making Ethics Work Checklist – the nature and impact of change
• Jean’s Making Ethics Work Checklist – Management and Leadership Styles
• Jean’s Making Ethics Work Checklist – Parameters and Focus
• Jean’s Checklist: Making Ethics Work – does this begin and end with Management and Leadership?
• Why did Jean Roberts choose William Shakespeare as her business mentor?
• Skills Involved in Tendering
• Understanding the relationship between Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
• Entrepreneurial Initiative as a Sole Operator
• Action-research projects in the nonprofit sector
• Highlights from my attendance at the 2008 Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) World Conference
• Planning and implementing a strategy for growth
• Opportunities for innovation abound in these ‘tough times’
• A decade of action-research in supporting services for people living with difficulty, disadvantage or disability
• Practical and useful hints – for Demographers, Researchers, Marketers, Company Directors and Nonprofit Boards

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Early reflections on establishing my chosen early career as a Trainer – which evolved into my now established career as a writer of training materials

My usual behaviour after presenting or facilitating a training course (back then) had been to …

Knowledge and information in the main are passed from one party to another through formal or informal conversation, in written or visual form, or through the use or application of technology.  The tool for knowledge and information transfer is EFFECTIVE …

In sequence, this article introduces:

1. Board performance
2. Why should a Board be concerned about quality in their own performance?
3. Tribute to the late Philip B Crosby – author of Quality is Free - the art of making quality certain, (Published

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By digging into the history of your organisation, you can uncover and connect with the passions, commitment and energy that contributed to the early stages and later growth.   Yes, each organisation will have a history – no matter how …

If an ethical nonprofit organisation or small/medium enterprise is your objective – you need to examine this newly developed Toolkit.
It is based on empowering staff to:

• define ‘ethics’ in terms of their individual work practices, in order to
• ensure

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It’s well and truly time to over-ride accusing opinions and predictions in our daily media with conversations that promote, encourage and praise endeavour, effort and resilience on the part of individuals, families, business people, community groups, education providers (to name …

This paper was presented at the Connecting Up 2011 Conference.

The key question for any nonprofit governing body whose organisation is using IT/Technology internally is this:

• Is IT/Technology working better than what it is meant to replace?

There are varying …

I’m pleased to share some feedback received to this March website article – mostly about generalisations and labels that thrive in the language of today:

• Are there any hints for Baby Boomers in managing Generation Xers?
• Why are we labelled

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Each Board Chairperson is responsible for the conduct of each Board meeting.

Introducing …