Auckland Programme

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Date & Venue	Slides/Resources	Topic	Presenter
August		NZ Women Taking the Lead Join Joana Kuntz online as she shares research-informed insights on New Zealand women leaders’ experiences at work. An increasing number of New Zealand organisations are realising the importance of diversity and inclusion, particularly at senior levels. However, New Zealand remains one of the lowest-ranked countries worldwide for women in senior leadership positions. The aim of this session is to share research-informed insights on New Zealand women leaders’ experiences at work. Areas covered span the contributions of executive coaching, mentorship, and sponsorship to women leaders’ career progression and satisfaction, and the impact of organisational culture on their sense of meaningful work. Further, the session will delve into the importance of, and approaches to, fostering engagement at work and supporting women to achieve performance targets, factors that emerged as key drivers of self-belief as leaders and career satisfaction. During the second half of the session, the speaker will facilitate a discussion of the role of HR/OD professionals in managing obstacles and creating opportunities for women in leadership in a post-pandemic environment, and apply an intersectional lens to the recommendations that emerge from this discussion. Attendees are invited to share insights, challenges, and dilemmas from their practice as managers/consultants supporting women’s careers, or first-person experiences as women leaders.	Joana Kuntz is an Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She gained her PhD from the University of Tennessee and worked in HR/OD in Europe and the United States prior to moving to New Zealand in 2009. She is the co-founder of the Employee Resilience Research group, a team of UC-based researchers who work alongside government agencies and private corporations across sectors to facilitate the development of resilience capability. Her current research and consulting areas span employee resilience and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, leadership development, and organisational interventions (design, implementation, and evaluation).
October 2021		This session will cover what teams need from leaders, and what leaders can do to grow and develop effective teams, particularly in the current context filled with challenge and uncertainty. We will introduce a robust team framework based on contemporary research and theory. We will also discuss a set of tools and resources that team members and leaders can use to raise the level of the team’s effectiveness, cohesion and subsequent wellbeing.	Mel Cash and Eugenia McGrath
April 2021	An introduction to HRM analytics		Dr Duncan Jackson
2020
June	Self Practice/Self Reflection: A new world of professional development for coaches Video case study	Self Practice Self Reflection	Dr Iain McCormick
2019
Wednesday 16th October – Breakfast meeting, 7.30 am – 8.30 am			Cameron Beazley
Tuesday 10 September, 5.30 – 7.00pm		Should we try to be ourselves at work? Findings from over 37,000 research participants from countries around the world show that authenticity has a significant positive effect on both well-being and engagement. What are the implications of these findings? Efforts aimed at encouraging employee authenticity could provide a valuable opportunity to improve key outcomes.	Dr Anna Sutton, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology
	Slides	Coaching for workplace bullying	Iain McCormick
11-Apr	Slides	Assessment centre and 360 ratings are reliable: but not for the reasons we assume	Dr Duncan Jackson a Reader in IO Psychology and HRM at King’s Business School, King’s College London  Please note: New Zealand Registered Psychologists and Chartered Organisational Psychologists can attend this event for free. Please contact Branch Events if you would like to attend.
22-Jan	Slides	Mindful Coaching	Iain McCormick
2018
16 August	.	The future of Organisational Development: Understanding Adult Developmental Science.	Elizabeth Howells
14 March	.	Focus in the age of distraction	Jane Piper
13 February	Venue Case Room 710, WF Building, AUT City Campus, 42 Wakefield Street	Differentiating Great, Good, and Bad leaders.	Joey Wuyts and Aylin Kocak (Winsborough)
30 January	Venue Case Room 710, WF Building, AUT City Campus, 42 Wakefield Street	Visible thinking – techniques and potential application in the workplace.	Ellen Manson
2017
21 November	Venue Case Room 710, WF Building, AUT City Campus, 42 Wakefield Street	Strategic Talent Management: Success in a VUCA World.	Prof Vlad Vaiman
10 October	Venue Case Room 710, WF Building, AUT City Campus, 42 Wakefield Street	The gender pay gap: evidence in New Zealand and implications for all.	Dr Gail Pacheco
12 September	Venue Case Room 710, WF Building, AUT City Campus, 42 Wakefield Street	Performing with the Heart in Mind: Performance Under Pressure. For elite athletes, as for all high performers, emotion regulation plays a significant part in how body and mind respond in the flow of high-consequence moments that can separate the best from the rest. Emotional Intelligence (EI) concepts have long been recognised as playing a role in sustainable performance, and now research provides insight into the physiological mechanisms that underlie this link. Dr Campbell Thompson will present an EI perspective on his work with high performers from a number of domains, and will summarise current perspectives in sport on Emotional Intelligence and sustaining performance under pressure.	Dr Campbell Thompson
18 July	Venue Case Room 711, WF Building, AUT City Campus, 42 Wakefield Street	Are you getting performance out of your approach to performance management? Our panel brings together a range of experiences. IBM CEBThree Trusts	Fiona Masson, Hayley Sullivan, Martin Fourie and convened Dr Gene Johnson
13 June	Venue Case Room 711, WF Building, AUT City Campus, 42 Wakefield Street	Bouncing Back from Adversity: Exploring an Organisational Resilience Psychological Climate in New Zealand	Prof Jarrod Haar
2016
11 April	Venue Case Room 711, WF Building, AUT City Campus, 42 Wakefield Street	Learning Agility	Dr Gene Johnson
31 March – 2 April	St Francis Retreat Centre, 50 Hillsborough Rd, Mt Roskill	2017 Mindfulness Meditation Retreat	Register here
21 March	Venue Case Room 711, WF Building, AUT City Campus, 42 Wakefield Street	Alternative Facts Panel: Research in Applied Organisational Psychology	Keith Macky, Cynthia Johnson, Carl Sanders-Edwards and Helena Cooper-Thomas
21 February	.	Rethinking feedback in organisations	Elizabeth Howells
8 November	.	Performance Appraisal Fatigue: How to Get Managers Talking about Performance.	Kaleena Muirhead and Suzy Randa
10 October	.	What’s new in newcomer research	Helena Cooper Thomas, Lisa Harris, Sophia Garcia and Tamsin Dehar
20 September	.	Using Schema Therapy in Executive Coaching	Dr Iain McCormick
9 August	.	Myths or Truths? Facts or Fads? Debunking the Common Beliefs about Psychology at Work	Kelly Bennion, Jessica Xu, Dr Maria Thomson and Daniel Ford
14 June	.	Engaging Effectively with Maori Clients	Lisa Stewart
12 April	.	“Workplace Cyberbullying: A Phantom Menace?”	Natalia D’Souza and Bevan Catley
2015
5 November	Chorus House, Level 6, 66 Wyndham Street	Helping leaders face their greatest challenge	Simon Moylan
13 October	.	Leadership Effectiveness: What Works	Tago Mharapara
28 September	.	Authentic Leadership Coaching	Jasbindar Singh
8 September	.	Muddy Mindfulness for Performance	Rod Corban
11 August	Room 620-501, The University of Auckland, Level 5, 49 Symonds St	Building Organisational Change Capability	Maria Thomson & Elspet Garvey
14 July	.	Bringing Intelligence to HR: Using data, research and insights to help solve people issues within organisations	Brett Wood
25 May	Southern Cross Health Society Level 1, Ernst & Young Building 2 Takutai Square Britomart Tamara Sallis	Neuroscience Insights: Leadership, Change and Organsiational Performance	Sue Langley
6 June	Tamara Sallis	The invisible majority culture – How white privilege harms us all	Belinda Borell
14 April	University of Auckland Tamara Sallis	Evaluation: Thinking beyond measurement	Julian King
10 March	The University of Auckland	Lessons for Aotearoa/New Zealand workplaces from Maori Leadership	Jarrod Haar
9 March	Parnell Community Centre	Marc Kahn: Coaching on the Axis – Breakfast Event	Marc Kahn
2014
11 November	Saint Columba Centre, 40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby, Auckland Plenty of parking at rear of building	Welcome Onboard – Steps for Assisting Staff Do Real Work From Day 1	Dr Sarah Burke
28 October	Titoki Room, Parnell Community Centre (Jubilee Building)	Enhancing ‘Balance’ in Our Daily Lives	Michael O’Driscoll
18 October	.	The invisible majority culture — How white privilege harms us all	.
12 August	St Columba Centre, 29 Vermont Street, Ponsonby	Neuroplasticity, memory and the aging workforce	Chris Thompson
25 July	University of Auckland Business School, Short St, Room 326	Psychology of Goals	Dr Paul Wood
8 July	IBM Centre, 82 Wyndham Street, Auckland	Global executives study reveals bold challenges for HR leaders of the future	Peter Johnstone
13 May	.	Workplace Wellbeing: Applied Positive Psychology at Work	Dr Aaron Jarden
8 April	University of Auckland, Room 336, Level 3, 1-11 Short St, Auckland Wilson parking (open air) is available opposite	NZ Employers and ‘The Global War for Talent’	Professor Peter Boxall
18 March	University of Auckland Room 336, Level 3, 1-11 Short St, Auckland Wilson parking (open air) is available opposite	Mindfulness in the Workplace	Melanie Cash
2013
12 November	Chancery Chambers Building; 2-8 Chancery St 6th Floor in Norman Shieff Room Auckland CBD	The Rising Popularity of Team Effectiveness Surveys – What’s all the fuss?	Michaela Drum Garth Cook
13 August	Centre for Continuing Education, University of Auckland Room 336, Level 3, 1-11 Short St, Auckland	Not Like Us: An Investigation into the Personalities of New Zealand CEO’s	Vathany Sambath
9 July	Centre for Continuing Education, University of Auckland Room 336, Level 3, 1-11 Short St, Auckland	The Invisible Majority culture: How White Privilege Harms Us All	Belinda Borell
11 June	Centre for Continuing Education, University of Auckland Room 336, Level 3, 1-11 Short St, Auckland	Accentuating the Positive and Minimizing the Negative	Tago Mharapara
14 May	Centre for Continuing Education, University of Auckland Room 336, Level 3, 1-11 Short St, Auckland	Enabling Women’s Career Progression	Kelly Bennion
9 April	1 – 11 Short Street, Room 336, Level 3, Building 810, Auckland City	Derailing Cultures – Organisational Blindspots	Dr. Jarret Shalhoop
12 March	1 – 11 Short Street, Room 336, Level 3, Building 810, Auckland City	Skills in the post GFC world: A look into how you can manage the future	Ganesh Nana
2012
9 October	.	Improving performance: Encouraging the transmission from research to practice, and back again! Streaming Media of Talk Downloadable Media of Talk Please Note: Actual Talk starts 30 minutes into the videos	Dr Helena Cooper-Thomas
11 September	.	Shrink Packaging: The Role of Solution Focussed Packages in IO Psychology	Anne Rundle
14 August	.	God Defend the Manager as Coach	Dr. Iain McCormick
10 July	.	A Socially Responsible Organisation: Where to Begin	Jeff Godbout
12 June	Centre for Continuing Education, University of Auckland, 3rd Floor, 1-11 Short St, Auckland	55 days trans-Tasman rowing: growing through painful experience	Stewart Forsyth
8 May	.	Getting the Best From People at the Worst of Times: Human Factors Before, During and After Disasters	Frank O’Connor
15 March	.	Counterproductive/deviant workplace behaviour	Dr Paul Wood
15 February	Centre for Continuing Education, University of Auckland, 3rd Floor, 1-11 Short St Auckland	The Psychological Work Contract: One Size Does Not Fit All	Dr Donald Cable
2011
8 November	Saint Columba Centre, 40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby, Auckland 1011	High-Involvement Work Systems, Work Intensification and Employee Outcomes	Keith Macky
11 October	Saint Columba Centre, 40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby, Auckland 1011	Experiences of NZ Human Resource Practitioners: Maintaining Well-being During Restructures	Dr. Andrea Polzer-Debruyne and Kelly Woods
13 September	Saint Columba Centre, 40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby, Auckland 1011	The Measurement of Senior Executive Performance With Dr Ann Hutchison	Dr Ann Hutchinson
12 July 2011	University of Auckland Centre for Continuing Education, Ground Floor, 1-11 Short St, Auckland	Bullying in the Workplace	Dr Helena Cooper-Thomas and Dr Dianne Gardner
25 June 2011	.	The Practices of Exceptional Executive Coaches	Dr Gavin Dagely
14 June 2011	.	Alliance Contracting Update	Ian McCormick PhD
13-14 May 2011	.	Foundation Coaching Skills Workshop	Sam Farmer
8 March	University of Auckland Centre for Continuing Education	What’s New in IO/HR Research?	.
8 February	University of Auckland Centre for Continuing Education, Tamara Sallis	NZ Economy: Deleveraging Continues Welcome To Our World	Shamubeel Eaqub and Professor Paul Spoonley
2010
9 November	.	Assessment for leadership development	Gary Grace
4 November	AUT Manukau Campus, Building MB, Room MB 317, 640 Great South Road	Professional Development Series: Team work	Jolyon Allen
12 October	University of Otago House, 385 Queen St, Auckland city	JRA and The Warehouse Stationary: Best Places to Work	JRA & Warehouse Stationary
14 September	Level 3, National Bank Tower Corner Queen St & Victoria St, Auckland City	Do Talent Management systems deliver meaningful information?	Leanne Markus
20-21 August	AUT Manukau Campus	Professional Development Series: Foundation Coaching Skills Workshop	Sam Farmer
9 June	University Of Otago	Can Conscientiousness Compensate For Less Intelligence?	Paul Woods
8 June	.	Research and innovations in assessment	Anne Fulton
11 May	.	Strategic HR	Jonathan Black
2009
April	.	Professional Development Series: Coaching Psychology: Adapting coaching to meet different personalities and needs*	.
13 April	.	Organisational Performance Management – is managing the organisation the same as managing individuals?	Bernie Frey
30 March	Auckland University	Taxonomies, traits, dispositions, motivations, and personality dynamics: how now to interpret personality test scores?	Paul Barret
9 March	Momentum Consulting Group – Maria Thomson	Implementing Wellness at Manukau City Council	Sid Sykes
14-15 November	.	Foundation Coaching Skills	Ian Mormick and Sam Farmer
10 November	Libby	Stress, fatigue and karoshe (not karaoke)	Maria Thomson and Wombats
13 October	The Auckland Club, Shortland Street, Tamara	Good teams, bad teams – what drives the difference	Gus MacIntosh
8 September 2009	BNZ Kristy	Giving effective feedback – How to maximise learning outcomes	John Hattie
29 August 2009	Massey	Professional Development Series:Applied HR Measurement	.
11 August 2009	Duncan	Joint-ventures, alliances, and other new organisational forms	Iain McCormick
8-9 August 2009	Massey, Kristy	Professional Development Series: Coaching CEO’s*	Iain McCormick
14 July 2009	Libby	Using assessment to add value to coaching*	Jaret Shaloop & Kevin Meyer
27 June 2009	Massey, Gary	Professional Development Series: The stats lab	Duncan Jackson
9 June 2009	The Warehouse Kristy	Validating competencies at The Warehouse	Duncan Jackson and Jane Davis
6-7 June 2009	Massey, Kristy	Professional Development Series: Foundation Coaching Skills*	Iain McCormick, Sam Farmer
16 May 2009	Massey Rosa	Professional Development Series: Applied HR Measures	John Bradbury
13 May 2009	41 George St, Newmarket	When coaching goes bad	Sam Farmer
5 May 2009	University of Otago House, 385 Queen St	Managing Toxic Personalities in the Workplace	Dr Elizabeth Holloway
21 April 2009	University of Otago House, 385 Queen Street, Auckland City (Room 4.01)	Deviant Employees and the Power of a Leader’s Face Eli Nana’s Talk Kit Peeble’s Talk	Eli Nana & Kit Peebles
14-17 April 2009	School of Business’ Commerce Building, University Of Otago	Performance Management	Prof. Kenneth Merchant Jim Harland Graham Henry Prof. Robert Chenhall Brian Rousseau Prof. Andy Neely
10 March 2009	Grafton Consulting Group, Libby	Organisation design and work-force planning	Ken Brophy
9 March 2009	PricewaterhouseCoopers	Coaching Psychology: Coaching for Complexity	David Lane & Mike Cavanaugh
2008
11 November 2008	.	Widgets, Wisdom and WOMBATS: The Improved Prediction and Management of Work-Related Fatigue	Maria Thomson
14 October 2008	Simpson Grierson	Developing legal leaders	Greg Eder, Simpson Grierson Greg.eder@simpsongrierson
9 September 2008	.	High Performance Work Systems in the Hospitality sector	Peter Haynes p.haynes@auckland.ac.nz
12 August 2008	.	When competencies work, and when they don’t	Duncan Jackson
August 2008	.	Master-class Workshop Series: Cognitive-Behavioural approaches to Coaching	Iain McCormick Rachel Percy
10 June 2008	.	Personality-based coaching	Iain McCormick iain@eccltd.co.nziain@eccltd.co.nz
13 May 2008	Auckland Business School	The reinforcement sensitivity theory of motivation and personality – why different people are motivated in different ways	Giles Burch Ann Hutchison
19-20 April 2008	Massey	Master-class Workshop Series: Practical approaches to measuring important HR and IO constructs	Duncan Jackson
8 April 2008	Auckland City	What’s the deal with on-line assessment?	Michaela Drum, Added Insight
March 11 2008	26 The Warehouse Way.	Sonar6 at The Warehouse: Great insights into how we’ve made it work for us	Jane Davis is Head of Talent Management for The Warehouse
2007
13 November 2007	DJ	Careers	.
9 October 2007	MT	Coaching	.
11 September 2007	KG	What’s Been Promised, What’s Been Delivered: Measuring the Psychological Contract	Dr Helena Cooper Thomas, PhD (London), C. Occ. Psych.(UK)
14 August 2007	? DJ	Competencies – do they work?	Helena Cooper-Thomas Keith Macky, Beryl Oldham
31 July 2007	Univ of Auck KG	NZ Leaders	Brad Jackson, Dale Pfeifer
12 June 2007	Opus   SF	Training parents – does it make for better employees?	Michelle Melville-Smith & Steven Haynes
8 May 2007	Grafton MT	OD in action	Client view of OD
10 April 2007	Sheffield   KG	Gen Hype – the reality behind attracting talent The differences	Stewart Forsyth
8 March 2007	Massey DJ	Beyond quantitative approaches in industrial psychology	Paul Englert
13 February 2007	Simpson Grierson SF	HR / I-O career opportunties	Career Analysts – Anne Fulton – Where are careers going? Pohlen Kean – Ruth Clavis Frog – Jane Kennelly Hudson – Kelly Wilson
2006
14 February 2006	111 Great South Road	Re-engineering Police Recruitment: 18 months later	Megan Jenkins, NZ Police
14 March 2006	Sheffield	High performance work practices and stress	Keith Macky Massey University
11 April 2006	Encore	Work stress in a military environment	Dave Cordery, NZ Navy
9 May 2006	Deloitte 8 Nelson St	Myths of testing Articles	Paul Englert,Opra
13 June 2006	Simpson Grierson Level 27, 88 Shortland Street	A modern method of assessing achievement: computer feedback on learning progress	John Hattie,University of Auckland
18 July 2006	Maunsen	Cyber-freeloading: Why people use work time to go into cyber reality	Andrea Polzer-Debruyne, Massey University
8 August 2006	PWC	Selecting for Creativity and Innovation	Giles Burch University of Auckland
12 September 2006	Centre for Psychology, Massey Albany Village	Motivational gravity: applications for manager development and performance management Motivational Gravity Explanation	Anne Rundle
26-30 September	.	Joint Aus-NZ Psych Conference	.
10 October 2006	Centre for Psychology, Massey Albany Village	What do Assessment Centres Measure? New perspectives on the situational approach	Duncan Jackson, Massey University
14 November 2006	Bell Gully	Talent Magnetism: impacts on staff retention	Brian Kirtlan, Fulton Hogan
2005
8 March 2005	TVNZ Level 4 – The Café Entrance	NZ Careers – Brain Drain & Brain Gain	Kerr Inkson, University of Otago
12 April 2005	NZ Police 111 Gt South Rd	Career development in organisations	Geoff Plimmer, Futureselves
10 May 2005	Auckland City Council	Evaluating the validity of I/O interventions	Paul Barrett, University of Auckland
14 June 2005	Massey Albany	How professionals maintain their wellbeing at work	Dianne Gardner, Massey University
12 July 2005	.	EQ, stress and career success	Martin Adams, SHL
9 August 2005	Sheffield	Testing for learning and development	John Hattie, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland
13 September 2005	.	Work/life balance	Mike O’Driscoll, Waikato University
11 October 2005	University of Auckland	Sense Making Strategies	Helena Cooper-Thomas University of Auckland
8 November 2005	Massey Albany	NZ Teams	Stuart Carr & team, Massey University
2004
23 March 2004	Old Government House	.	Prof. John Arnold
13 April 2004	Massey Albany	Success in China	Bill Watson, Access Asia Ltd
11 May 2004	Deloitte House	Improving recruitment processes	Donald Cable, Auckland Police Recruitment
8 June 2004	47 George St, Newmarket	Measurement & implications of organisational culture	Eileen Henderson, Henderson White Associates
6 July 2004	.	How learning organisations learn	Peter Carswell, Unitec
10 Aug 2004	Massey, Albany	.	Rachel Morrison: Impact of informal relationships on the workplace
27-30 August 2004	Te Papa	NZPsS Conference: Wellington	.
14 September 2004	East Tamaki campus – University of Auckland	.	Brenda Lobb
12 October 2004	North Shore Hospital – Learning Centre	How to create a high commitment workplace	Keith Macky, Greg McBain
9 November 2004	Massey, Albany	New Zealand teams	Dave Clarke, Dianne Gardner, Duncan Jackson, Gus Habermann, Heather Buttle, Jennifer Stillman, Richard Fletcher, Stephen Atkins, Stuart Carr
2003
18 February 2003	Bell Gully	Practical applications of optimism	Jamie Ford Foresight Group
18 March 2003	TMP	Organisational stress management	Hillary Bennett PsychAssess
8 April 2003	SHL	Making competencies pay (original NZ research)	Heather Lees
17 June 2003	University of Otago	Innovation and knowledge management (original NZ research) Copy Of Slides	Jenny Darroch
12 August 2003	SHL, Auckland Club Tower	Leadership	Chris Mitchell, SHL
16 September 2003	Ernst Young, Shortland St	Causal models of occupational stress – what causes stress, and what impact does it have on organisational effectiveness? Copy Of Slides	Peter Hart
28 October 2003	8 Nelson St, corner Nelson & Fanshaw	Performance Management Copy Of Slides	Graham Hart, Deloitte
18 November 2003	Massey	New Zealand teams Copy Of Slides	Stuart Carr, Stephen Atkins, Richard Fletcher