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| FITT & Geek Girls North Ryde Social Event FITT and Geek Girls Dinner joined forces on October 29th at Microsoft’s office in North Ryde to provide members an opportunity to network, special focus was on fostering mentoring. Over 50 attendees met with like-minded individuals and provided a forum that celebrated skills-sets and ‘tricks of the trade’ that worked for them in their career.  Kindly sponsored by Microsoft, the first FITT and Geek Girls Dinner event was a great success. Catherine Eibner from Geek Girls Dinner also discussed her personal experience on having a mentor and FITT Steering Committee member, Maggie Alexander introduced the 2010 Mentoring program that commences March 2010. For more details on this program, please see the Mentoring Program page. |
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FITT Hudson Networking event Then Claire kicked off the evening with all about Happiness – the anchor theme being you can win the lottery to be happy for a year or two, but research reveals ‘happiness’ wears off – real happiness is about loving what you do! Claire provided us some ‘happiness’ research and insights that she uses in her coaching at Hudson and some practical techniques to assist. Next Diane Rogers, a familiar face to FITT who teaches our Powerful Leadership courses, talked about the disruptive change that is happening in organisations today. Both speakers presented very enlightening material which was obvious to all that we only scratched the surface on what skills we need and that happiness is core to being
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IT Trends Networking Lunch We were fortunate to have two fantastic speakers in Linda Price, the Group Vice President of Executive programs from Gartner, and Rhodi Burton, a Channel Manager from VMWare. Linda covered the necessary toolset the IT Manager of the future will have to be equipped with to meet the challenges of the future whilst Rhodi gave us an industry view what Cloud Computing actually is and how it fits in with the strategic picture of organisations. The afternoon was a great combination of food, networking and a view of the emerging trends in IT. |
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| FITT High Potential Leadership for Career Advancement Workshop What makes a good leader and how do I become one? Those were just a couple of the questions answered by Diane Hansen at the High Potential Leadership for Career Advancement workshop held on Saturday 25 July 2009. Over the course of the day, Diane took a group of FITT members on a journey to discover their inner leader as well as skills and tips to increasing your leadership potential. The day started with a fun exercise – drawing a picture to describe what embodies a successful leader. While the illustrations ranged from the ethereal to the material, all teams agreed on the core components that make up a successful leader. Throughout the day, the group had the opportunity to both discuss and debate examples of successful leadership as well as spending time on reflection to identify individual strengths and areas for development. Attendees were unanimous in their appreciation to Diane for running the course and all went away from an intense but fun day having learned a thing or two about leadership and themselves. |
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| Telstra FITT Senior Leadership Forum 'Creating Reflective Leaders' hosted and sponsored by Telstra A very special event was hosted by Telstra on the evening of July 28th for FITT members and invited Telstra staff in leadership/management roles within IT&T to discuss 'Creating Reflective Leaders'. Held at the Telstra Experience Centre in Sydney, we were extremely fortunate to have the time of Paul Geason, the new Group Managing Director of Telstra Wholesale and Rachel Argaman, CEO of Toga Hospitality and a past Telstra Business Women Award Winner to discuss what it means to be a reflective leader and the leadership models that enable reflection, empowerment, meaning. It was one of the most insightful sessions that FITT has ever run based upon the amount of emails that came flooding in the next morning giving such great feedback. The presentations from Paul and Rachel mixed latest theory, models and developments in leadership with practical examples and personal experiences on things they did (right and wrong!) and how they reflected, and really highlighted that often the quietest in the room can be the next leader! And that its not just about delivering on strategy, execution and capability but also the people element that forms the culture. As Rachel said, culture 'eats strategy' any day – the best strategy will not succeed without it being compatible to the culture. We must thank the Telstra HR Staff for all their efforts and commitment to this event and its sister event in Melbourne. The whole event provided real insight into how we as women in IT&T can be better leaders not only for good of the business we are in, but for our staff and society in general. This was followed up by networking drinks, giving the attendees an opportunity to meet other like minded women working in the IT&T industry. The feedback was overwhelming positive: 70% of the attendees rated the event excellent and 22% rated the event good and 10% were no-shows. It was unfortunate that we had many more registrants than we had capacity for (and then we had a large number of no-shows so disappointing for those on the waiting list). We have asked in the feedback survey what time suits people most and the 5.30-7.30pm timeslot won hands down over lunch, breakfast and 6.30-8.30pm. Finally, FITT always welcomes other organisations to host events of this type either in Melbourne or Sydney so please email events@fitt.org.au if you think your organisation might be interested. Click here to download a copy of the presentation slides. |
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Hudson partners with FITT for their inaugural Newcastle event
- Navigating through the Crisis Speaker: Samantha Alford, General Manager, Scenic Tours. Topic: Organisations can weather the current market conditions by focusing on Business Process Improvement initiatives. Information Technology and Business Process Design go hand in hand and our speaker will share her key learning experiences leading improvement projects in some of Australia's largest organisations. |
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Telstra partnered with FITT for Leadership through Technology
The inaugural FITT Melbourne event was held at the swish Telstra Executive briefing centre and sponsored by Telstra. Michael Lawrey, Executive Director for Telstra Network & Technology, facilitated a panel discussion with past Telstra Business Women Award winners including Professor Margaret Abernethy - Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, and Director of the Melbourne Graduate School of Management, University of Melbourne, Kirsten MacKelden - Director and co-Founder of Indigo Media Group publisher of the 2007 'Magazine of the Year', Real Weddings, and Amy Sznicer – 2006 Young Business Womens award winner. The panel discussion provided real insight into how these women were able to be so successful, and how they were able to juggle work, home and life balance. This was followed up by networking drinks, giving the attendees an opportunity to meet other like minded women working in the IT&T industry. The feedback was overwhelming positive: 75% of the attendees rated the event excellent and 29% rated the event good and 95% said they would goto another FITT event in Melbourne. It was unfortunate that we had twice the number of people want to attend than we had capacity for so for those that missed out, we are working with another sponsor to host another FITT event in Melbourne. Events do take time and money and onground resources to run so we do rely upon sponsored hosts and their speakers to keep the events free-of-charge. Once our FITT Melbourne sub committee are in a position to run a paid-for event where the event can be solely presented by FITT, we will do so. If you can assist, please do let us know. Developing Leadership through Social Networking
How to make the Net Work! FITT @ CeBIT 13th May
North Ryde Social Event Thursday 2nd April
Telstra FITT International Womens Day Luncheon Friday 6 March
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