Building a Team Culture

USQ Research Day November 25, 2013

Professor Mike Keppell Executive Director

Australian Digital Futures Institute Director, Digital Futures - CRN

Overview

n Begin with the vision

n Develop values n Role of project director/leader

n How teams can work

Vision

nTransforming the knowledge and skills of society through fostering digital literacies

MissionnTo innovate, research and collaborate to explore and influence digital literacies that impact society.

ADFI

Digital Classroom Six Regional Universities

NATA Five Tertiary Education

Associations

Improving access to Higher

Education

DF-CRN 90 Staff

ADFI Values

nInnovative nTransformative nInclusive nCollaborative nConnected nEvidence-based nImpact nOpen

NATA - Guiding principles nCollaborative Advantage: Partners create/co-design new value together as opposed to mere exchange through their involvement in the NATA project. !

nStrategic Alignment & Communication

NATA

nIntegrity: Partners work with each other in the spirit of mutual trust and respect… !

n Sustainability: The NATA will contribute to integrated, generative and future-focused strategies….

Project Leader

Set Clear Expectations

Start with the end in mind

Think win-win

Enlist diverse team

members

Be consistentNever

Compromise quality

Trust

Maintain

Scaffold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10

The Digital Rural Futures Conference 2014 Hosted by the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba

25 – 27 June 2014 Regional Futures - maintaining healthy, resilient and vibrant regional

communities. Agricultural Futures - increasing productivity, sustainable use of resources and

embracing digital technologies to optimise Australia’s farming future. Digital Futures – building capacity to design and utilise emerging digital

technologies and embrace their opportunities

The conference is a Regional Universities Network (RUN) initiative

For more information now, visit: http://www.usq.edu.au/digital-crn/drf-conference

Official Conference Website: (Go Live from December 2013)

http://www.usq.edu.au/digital-rural-futures/