Jean Roberts

Jean Roberts: Research

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• Most common concerns about writing grant applications, submissions and proposals
• Where two or more are gathered, there is potential for conflict – free discussion paper
• Managing Fear in Relation to Change
• Delivering Quality Services – a free checklist for Service Providers
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation depend on HRD
• Is there such a thing as a non-community ?
• Complexity vs Simplicity
• 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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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 …

Consumer or Service-user Outcomes do not happen by themselves.  They require focus, practice, evidence, resources, structured planning and continuous improvement on the part of the service-provider.   Most importantly, agree on these key definitions for use throughout your commercial or …

When you find a useful hint, quote, example or checklist – never throw it away!  Here are some from my own ‘Useful hints’ folder:

1.   Mayo Clinic Health Information, accessible on their website, offered an article Workplace generation gap: …

Jean’s Making Ethics Work Checklist – for SMEs and Nonprofit Organisations

1.     The Corporate or Organisational aim relating to ethics is to establish and maintain an ethical workplace and work environment

2.    Establish performance indicators by which an ethical workplace …