Facilitation & Workshop Design

Are you satisfied that your workshops provide excellent return on your investment? Do they deliver outcomes that create better business alignment? Do they generate breakthrough ideas that provide the foundation for discontinuous growth?

With Marketworthy’s assistance you’ll achieve outcomes faster. We design unique processes for collaborative, engaging and mentally challenging workshops. We match design and facilitation style to deliver the specific outcomes you are seeking. Through effective dialogue we will help you identify what matters most and organise your ideas into action plans that your team will want to implement.

Client Successes

Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board (APESB)

Industry: Standardisation and Professional Practice Guidance

The Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board (APESB) was established in 2006 as an initiative of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and CPA Australia. As an independent body, the role of the APESB is to set the code of ethics and the professional standards by which their members are required to abide.

Marketworthy designed and facilitated a collaborative workshop that included all members of the APESB board, secretariat and representatives of the founding bodies. The workshop established the foundation of the APESB Strategic Plan 2007-2009 and assisted to clarify and formalise thinking in regards to: mission, vision, values, product and service scope, management systems, operations systems, marketing and communications, infrastructure, human resources and financial management. This initial assignment was subsequently expanded to include the development of the APESB Strategic Plan an ‘activity based’ financial model.

Referee
Rachel Portelli, Secretariat Manager
www.apesb.org.au

CPA Australia – Continuing Professional Development Business Unit

Industry: Education and Training

The CPD Product Development Team is responsible for a growing portfolio of education and training products – delivered via training, conferences, events and new media (DVD, web casts etc.). The products are distributed within Australia and attract sales from CPA Australia members and others working in finance, accounting and business roles.

Including all members of the CPD Product Development Team, business unit executive and stakeholders, we designed and facilitated a series of workshops to establish strategic priorities and product innovation strategy.

Referee
Kerrie Bryant-Adams, Business Unit Director
Ann Quach, Group Product Manager
www.cpaaustralia.com.au

CPA Australia – Member Services Centre

Industry: Communications and Transactional Processing

The MSC is the communications and transaction hub of CPA Australia. The centre services over 112,000 members and manages the sales transactions of the CPD business unit with event sales to members and others in the field of finance accounting and business.

Marketworthy designed and facilitated a collaborative workshop to establish strategies and action plans to accelerate productivity improvement and return on investment of MSC clients. Through the workshop, staff and the management team evaluated current performance, explored driving and restraining forces, generated and ranked ideas to improve performance and discovered new structures to improve team alignment.

Referee
Mike Hayes, Manager - MSC
www.cpaaustralia.com.au

CPA Australia –Board SME Committee

CPA Australia – Board Small-Medium Enterprise Committee (BSMEC)

Industry: Professional Association - Governance

Unlisted businesses with less than 200 staff or annual turnover under $50 million represent the majority of businesses in Australia. The BSMEC is responsible for representing the interests of more than 25,000 CPA Australia members working in this sector. In particular, the BSMEC works to assist CPA Australia with strategic direction setting and seeks to ensure that services offered to SME sector members match their unique needs.

Using an approach that included a facilitated workshop, the Board Committee was able to establish and rank strategic priorities and develop initiatives for the BSMESC 2007-2009 Strategic Plan. The workshop included all members of the Board Sector Committee and business unit stakeholders of CPA Australia.

Referee
Richard Scott, Director Corporate Sector (Formerly SME)
www.cpaaustralia.com.au

Department of Defence – Corporate Services and Infrastructure Group

Department of Defence – Corporate Services and Infrastructure Group (CSIG)

Industry: Defence Personnel Services

CSIG is an organisation of 15,000 staff, employed Australia-wide, to support the work, living and operational environments of 65,000 Army, Navy, Air Force and Science & Technology personnel.

Niche Strategies and Marketworthy undertook a range of projects to inform communications strategy and generate initiatives to foster shared vision, team alignment and business process improvement – especially in the area of intranet services. Marketworthy supported the initiative by designing and facilitating workshops, running focus group discussions and managing depth interviews with staff, executives and clients. This project supported the broader organisational change program initiated by Defence.

Referee
Nicola White, Director Niche Strategies
www.nichesbc.com
www.defence.gov.au/csig/main.htm