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Hello <<First Name>>
In late January I drove into one of those tiny towns which are so easy to miss when barreling down the highway. Jugiong has more dogs than people. It also has a wonderfully named café, the Long Track Pantry, I entered and took a seat.
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The town’s very existence is from another time, when towns were spaced out, a day’s travel on foot from the last. Each stop providing an opportunity to halt, rest and consider the next stage of the journey.
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As my coffee arrives, the reflections of a traveller stir me to consider my own journey, and that of the AIPM over the last three years. 2013 saw the adoption of the AIPM's new business plan, designed to grasp the opportunities of our renovated site in Manly, and commit to a broadening of support for the police jurisdictions and all other public safety agencies. Like the travellers of old, we used 2013 as a waypoint to look back over the previous decade, and consider the way forward over the next ten. Jugiong, caught between Yass and Gundagai, was also a waypoint, never a destination, and likewise the AIPM, could not afford to remain long in one spot.
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I look around the café and wonder if the owners would be happy if they could triple their customers? Of course they would. So there is some satisfaction to be drawn from achieving this growth at the AIPM, enabling three times as many people to engage in leadership education.
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Next to the café door a dog sleeps. For me, nothing says ‘welcome’ more than the comfortable slumber of this kelpie who has obviously grown used to the crowd. Traditionally, the AIPM supported leaders at just one or two levels of their career, predominantly at the Inspector and Superintendent levels.
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But sometime in 2013, if that same lazy dog had been at our gate, its ears would prick up at who was wandering in. They came as Assistant and Deputy Commissioners for the ANZ Police Leadership Strategy, they came as Sergeants for the Developing Future Leaders program. They came as women for our Balance program. They came as post-graduates to our Bridging the Gap and Custodian programs. No comfortable slumber here.
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There are two things I enjoy about this country café, one is the slow service and the other is the local newspaper. There is pleasure to be had in the interpretation of national and global news stories into a local context. I am reading a Wagga Wagga newspaper. Global migration is distilled into the fate of the one Sudanese family in town. Likewise every year, there are mountains of publications about leadership, mainly from the private sector, most are just noise or regurgitation.
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Over the last three years, the AIPM’s Dr Victoria Herrington has been busy publishing her research. Each paper takes us closer to understanding the specific leadership challenges for public safety, and the different approaches to developing effective leadership within public safety organisations. There is satisfaction knowing there’s a place to go for leadership content which is contextually relevant. Like Wagga Wagga’s Sudanese family, we relate more easily from the global to the local through the experiences of our own.
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Jugiong was pretty dead a couple of years ago. Forgotten by the highway, it seemed doomed to go the way of hundreds of other towns. The transformation of the general store into a cafe started to draw in traffic. Soon the fruit shop was open on weekends, antiques became available, grey nomads in oversized caravans stopped for more than a night, and the small motel had to make a no vacancy sign. This one small decision at the end of the street, created a change affecting the whole town.
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In the same way the AIPM has also been asked to change, to help out at the end of the street. Strong demand for programs which build the collective leadership capacity of organisations has meant local delivery of programs including Frontline Leadership, Balance and Facilitation Workshops. We have transformed our Manly-centric focus to deliver in Adelaide, Brisbane, Townsville, and Melbourne. Who knows what impact this will mean for those at the other end of the street?
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Similarly over the last three years, the AIPM has become the place of choice to run critical meetings, workshops and programs. In 2015, the magic of Manly was used by many public safety organisations to help move their people and teams from impasse to possible. Don’t ask me to explain how, just know it does.
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Maybe part of Jugiong’s appeal is its contrast with the nearby highway. A thousand metres away and the pace of life is fixed at 110km/hr. But in town, the pace is slower, there is time and space to explore. The communal showgrounds is where locals make their discretionary contribution, it is where they give more, and the grey nomads feel at home.
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In the same way, executive education is so often about trying to catch someone racing down the highway with a long journey ahead and not much time. If we are lucky they might pull over for five minutes. No wonder finding solutions to our problems seems so difficult when the view changes every few moments. Down the end of the street, frontline leaders have a different view, and a different sense of time and space.
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As small as this town is, there is an artistic quarter. A local artist creating life size sculptures of horses using scrap metal. From a distance, the horse looks real enough, but up close the innovation and adaption becomes clear. Who would have thought this town could be a cradle of creativity? In using scrap metal, the artist incorporates the value of the past in the creation of the new.
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The horses remind me of the AIPM’s two public safety partnership programs, Leadership in Counter Terrorism and the Strategic Command Program. They continue to provide opportunities to rethink, rebuild and realign operational capabilities and expand professional networks in their most complex of environments.
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Jugiong is an easy town to avoid, just keep on cruise control. But pull aside, and give some time to look and listen, and the mini-metaphors for our public safety environment appear, at least to me. The links between history, tradition, continuity, change and creation are there on its main street.
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In the same way, since 2013, the AIPM has held in balance the tradition and continuity of its academic programs, with growth and innovation through the variety and flexibility of our non-accredited and bespoke programs. Just like Jugiong, success is created not just through the meeting of local needs, but aligning, changing and striving to meet the needs of others.
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Jugiong, NSW – population 303 – never have we lived in more exciting times.
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Andy Singh
Director Business Development
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2016 Professor in Residence
Professor Gloria Laycock
BSc, PhD, FRSA, OBE
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Gloria Laycock is a leading researcher in support of public safety. She is highly regarded internationally with senior criminologist appointments in the UK, UAE, US and Australia. She graduated in psychology from University College London in 1968 and completed her PhD at UCL in 1975. She worked in the Home Office for over thirty years of which almost twenty years were spent on research and development in the policing and crime prevention fields.
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In 1999 she was awarded an International Fellowship by the United States National Institute of Justice in Washington DC, followed by a four month consultancy at the Australian Institute of Criminology in Canberra.
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She returned to the UK to take up leadership of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science in 2001. The Institute engages a wide range of sciences and design experts in cross-disciplinary work in collaboration with police and industry to find new ways to reduce crime.
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In 2010 she established the Community Policing and Police Science Institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE. In 2008 she was awarded an OBE for services to crime policy.
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She has extensive research experience in the UK and has acted as a consultant on policing and crime prevention in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
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Policing Research: What works, what matters and what counts?
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What are the implications of Evidence Based Policing (EBP) for policing and what impact does it have on the relationship between academics and police practitioners?
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Explore the developments of EBP in the UK and discover how the EMMIE framework and the Crime Reduction toolkit, developed by the UCL Jill Dando Institute, is used to provide impact measurement ratings for police interventions.
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Date: Monday 29 February 2016
Location: AIPM, Manly
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Future Crime and the implications for policing
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The opportunity to prevent crime through better environment design has long been recognised. As our lives become more interconnected with the digital architecture of communications and commerce, new design opportunities and implications will rapidly emerge with possible repercussions on public safety outcomes.
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Date: Tuesday 1 March 2016
Location: AIPM, Manly
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Tips, Tricks and Office Hacks
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Deliver presentations that matter
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8 New Rules of Public Speaking
Powerful communication is no longer the formalised ritual it used to be, instead, we're embracing a more casual, direct, interactive form of public speaking.
How to Control Your Fear of Public Speaking
Surveys find that the number one fear of most people is not death, but public speaking.The difference between success and failure is how you manage your fears.
18 Powerful Public Speaking Tips For Absolute Beginners
Being able to effectively communicate your ideas to key decision makers, teammates, potential customers and investors is arguably one of the most important skills you need for building a successful career.
7 Little Tricks To Speak In Public With No Fear
Over the years, I finally overcame my fear of public speaking, even though the nervousness is still there, I am able to control it. It was not easy but I made it with some help from books and a few techniques I developed myself.
How to give a killer presentation
Over the years, we’ve sought to develop a process for helping inexperienced presenters to frame, practice, and deliver talks that people enjoy watching.
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We have moved through the halfway point of the financial year and there are still plenty of development opportunities left for you and your team.
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Don't get distracted by the summer and left in a budget quandary in the New Year. Secure your place today.
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DEVELOPING FUTURE LEADERS
4 - 8 APR
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(LIMITED AVAILABILITY)
CUSTODIAN: EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT FOR PUBLIC SAFETY ORGANISATIONS
11 - 15 APR
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(LIMITED AVAILABILITY)
ANZEBP CONFERENCE & MASTERCLASS
20 -21 APR
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(LIMITED AVAILABILITY)
NEXUS: BUILDING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
27 - 29 APR
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(LIMITED AVAILABILITY)
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE 2/16
2 - 20 MAY
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EVOLVE: LEADING IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS
6 - 9 JUNE
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STRATEGIC COMMAND PROGRAM
19 - 24 JUNE
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(LIMITED AVAILABILITY)
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Keep up-to-date with the latest public safety related research through the AIPM Library's Know It Now blog.
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Get a heads up on the most current journal articles available through the AIPM Library delivered weekly to your inbox.
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Supporting Your Learning Needs
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Finding scholarly info made easy
Part 3
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Plan out your strategy before you begin your search
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The Google search engine is getting quite clever at understanding your requests. It's ability to interpret natural language is improving every year. However, it's not perfect and still based on the types and number of words you place in the search box.
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The more words used means the search will return a greater quantity of results but not necessarily with a corresponding gain in the quality. This can mean further searching through pages of results to find the most relevant. How can you speed up your search process and get better results?
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Use only those keywords relevant to your topic.
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Sounds commonsensical I know and all it takes is a small amount of preparation and an ability to not write like a human. Firstly, look at the question you are trying to write your paper on. What is the topic? What are the keywords that are contained within it?
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Research question: What motivates adult learners taking online courses?
Keywords: motivates, adult learners, online courses
Words such as "what" and "taking" do not relate to the core concepts of the research question and are not effective keywords.
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The next step is to brainstorm for alternative words that authors may use to describe your topic. Try:
1. Different forms of the keywords - motivates: motivation, motivating,
2. Less similar descriptions - online courses: distance education, web based learning, MOOC
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You should now have a small list of keywords to help you discover those resources you need to complete your assignment. Don't throw them all into the search field at once, try different combinations usually no more that three terms at a time to help focus your results.
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When searching a phrase (multiple keywords together) remember to enclose the term in quotation marks - online courses: "online courses". This makes Google Scholar search for the phrase rather than just the individual words. This might save you from having to trawl through many pages of documents with just the word 'online' in them and other documents with the word 'courses' in them and trying to find those that have used them together.
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Finally, don't be concerned if you get back zero or little results. Research is not a linear process. Work through your list of keywords and try others by broadening your topic. Read the abstract of papers you have found and look for keywords in the text. Try a thesaurus.
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If you still haven't found what you need, contact your organisation's library or send an email to the AIPM library at library@aipm.gov.au for help.
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