Apply for the 2021 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Women’s Leadership Academy!
The Academy aims to be an avenue for participants to advance their leadership skills, to understand more of key gender differences and challenges in the public health sector, and to create a network of young Southeast Asian women leaders who work across national borders and drive collective action, and nurture a strong ASEAN identity and community. This will be done through a series of online webinars and activities with general leadership skill training, break-out sessions, mentoring, and networking opportunities with leaders from the region and the United States.
OECD Education and Skills Today
Recent years have seen a growing movement to teach computer science in schools. On the one hand, this makes sense. Robots, artificial intelligence, and automation are poised to change virtually every aspect of work and life; surely, public education must react and teach the curriculum of the future. On the other hand, school systems are already overburdened and still struggle to teach key foundations, such as language or mathematics. Does it make sense to teach a vocational skill like coding?
It may come as a surprise that we both agree on one answer: instead of focusing on the syntax of the latest coding language or technical tools of the day, schools should teach the essential concepts of computational thinking and digital technology. Those who don’t understand the nature of algorithms are most at risk of being manipulated by them, and of being disempowered by technology, rather than empowered by it.
Like other fields of learning, computer science and computational thinking, when taught well, can prepare students to apply problem solving, creativity, and collaboration in all sorts of domains – whether they be technical pursuits such as coding, cybersecurity, robotics and AI, or nontechnical pursuits such as law, logic or philosophy.
Three Leadership Skill Shifts For 2021 and Beyond
2020 has brought us many crises but has also offered leaders numerous learning opportunities. It has demanded an evolution of how we work and what we learn. The shifts in these skills are subtle, but they will better equip leaders to lead, whether it’s remotely from the kitchen table in 2020 or in-person as we navigate toward a more hybrid office environment in 2021.
The three skill shifts are:
- Communication to Empathy
- Emotional Intelligence to Emotional Agility
- Time Management to Context Management
1) Communication to Empathy
Effective communicators and productive leaders are intertwined. When I led learning and development functions at high tech companies, communication was the #1 skill leaders and managers wanted to learn and practice. This year has forced leaders to communicate constructively even without answers. They have had to push beyond their comfort zones; beyond sharing updates, asking questions, and even listening actively. Leaders have been asked to go deeper, and develop empathy. Brené Brown, a professor, and author, says empathy fuels connection: it’s feeling with people, and connecting with a person’s situation.
Australia could be cancelling all festivals until 2021
Australia could be set to cancel all festivals until 2021. According to Australia’s chief medical officer, Professor Brendan Murphy, festivals and concerts could be “out of the question” until 2021, due to the current global pandemic and the restrictions of public gatherings. Currently, Australia has a ban on gatherings of more than two people in public spots, however, Dr. Murphy suggested that the ban could be lifted particularly soon to allow for friends and families to get together. However, this may vary between states and territories. He also added that community sports and shopping centres are being considered in reopening with strict social distancing guidelines, but music festivals are not on on the cards.
AIM training: workshops and conferences
Our current list of PD workshops and conferences for teachers of French, Mandarin, Japanese and Spanish.
The Coronavirus pandemic has disrupted everything, and we’ve all had to change the way we teach to make sure everyone is as safe as possible. Here at AIM ANZ HQ, we’ve decided to offer both face-to-face and online teacher training. The choice is yours.
But, numbers are limited, so book and pay for your spot ASAP. Depending on the number of bookings, we may be able to add more days to accommodate.
Each day will run from 9:00-3:00pm each day, and will cost $220 per attendee. Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided.
Webinar Series: Effective Supervisory Practices
Leading and managing a community and staff can be an all-consuming challenge that leaves little time for local government supervisors to focus on their personal growth. Now, in a state-of-the-art online classroom, the Effective Supervisory Practices Webinar Series makes it easy to bring practical supervisory training to your jurisdiction without the high costs of hiring consultants.
Top 15 Most In-demand Job Skills in Australia 2020, According to LinkedIn
LinkedIn Learning, an online educational platform created by LinkedIn revealed the list for the most demanded hard skills and soft skills by companies in Australia 2020.
First, let’s understand what are hard skills and soft skills.
10 Hot Leadership Topics for 2020
As we kick off 2020, expectations are high for the changes the decade ahead will bring. According to top HR and leadership influencers, this year will challenge leaders to face a new level of workplace transformation. Hot leadership topics for 2020 will continue to be shaped by accelerating technology change, increasing consumer expectations, and hyper-connectivity.
For the past five years we have tracked and analyzed social data from top influencers (listed at the end of this post) to reveal the hot leadership topics emerging as the new year begins. This year influencer trends reveal not only the hottest topics now—pictured in the graphic below—but also the topics that have attracted sustained attention over the past five years and also those that have fizzled away.
Ultra Music Festival Returning to Australia In 2020
Ultra Music Festival Returning 2016
Ultra Music Festival will bang the beats in Australian next year for a two-city trek.
The third annual Ultra Australia is booked-in for Saturday, 7 March 2020 at Sydney’s Parramatta Park and the following day at Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse, on what is a public holiday weekend in Victoria.
The lineup has yet to be announced for the back-to-back Australian shows, which are expected to welcome 50,000 music fans across both dates, according to the Miami-based events brand.
Ultra Worldwide expanded into Australia for the first time in 2018 for a single Melbourne fest, with Dutch DJ Afrojack and Swedish duo Axwell ? Ingrosso leading the bill. The February 2019 edition took place in Sydney and Melbourne, with The Chainsmokers, Marshmello and Martin Garrix among the headliners.
AUSTRALIA SPEAKS 2020
Try out this interactive activity to test out your perceptions of Australian English speakers!
(works best on computer screens)
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