SA Society Workshop: Annual reports and the meaning of life
Asking someone to take responsibility for the preparation of an organisation’s annual report has been likened to giving them a poisoned chalice. People who are tasked with this job often feel a sense of hopelessness—‘why me?’. There are a few souls out there, however, who actually like doing annual reports. What’s their reason?
This is the question that Virginia Wilton, principal of Wilton Hanford Hanover, and Lawrie Kirk, of Tanner James Management Consultants, who have successfully collaborated on three annual reports to date, set out to answer in this workshop.
The answer—and the secret to remaining sane while delivering a high-quality annual report—is two words: project management.
This workshop will show you how to use project management principles in the preparation of any annual report. We will draw on numerous case studies and offer participants an insight into how to put these principles into practice. By the end, we can (almost) guarantee that you will regard the ‘poisoned chalice’ as a Holy Grail of personal development!
Lawrie Kirk, Senior Consultant at Tanner James Management Consultants Pty Ltd and Virginia Wilton, Director of Wilton Hanford Hanover, both based in Canberra and both with extensive experience in producing annual reports for federal government agencies, will lead the workshop.
Date: Saturday August 23 2008
Time: 9 am –12.30 pm
Pace: SA Writers' Centre, Level 2, 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide (wheelchair accessible through Buongiorno restaurant)
Cost: $75 members; $125 non-members
Apply with payment to: Society of Editors (SA) Inc., PO Box 2328, Kent Town 5071, or by email to eds@editors-sa.org.au.
Limited to 20 participants
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