Management Seminars are one of the exciting initiatives organised by MILE. As part of our Knowledge Management strategy to position our municipality as a Centre of Learning, MILE is organising a series of exchanges on a range of relevant topics for management dialogue, within the local government context.
The intention is to provide a forum for Management and Executives to engage in expert-facilitated debate, discussion & dialogue, technical visits, case studies and video documentaries, with a view to encouraging executive networking, sharing of new ideas and creative thinking amongst our management and leadership.
A Management Seminar will be held quarterly, beginning in September 2010. For learning notes, presentations and reading material:
Click hereThe following Management Seminars are scheduled or have been held in 2012:
Key Events for 2012Management Seminar: Leadership in a Changing World
Key Events for 2011
Management Seminar : “Just how do we create those jobs?”
MILE hosted a Breakfast seminar
that focused on a question that we have been grappling with, not just as
eThekwini, but as local government practitioners all over South Africa:
Just how do we create decent jobs?
The event was held on May 27, 2011 from 07h30 until 11h00, at the
School of Catering, Durban University of Technology (DUT), Ritson
Campus. Entrance at Gate 1, opposite Curries Fountain.
The Invite for this event can be found below:
Management Seminar: “As City Leadership, are we appropriately managing and leading people that vary in age, culture, creed, religion?”
The management seminar focused on the above question. The event was
held on July 8, 2011 from 07h30 until 10h30 at the Durban Botanical
Gardens Conference Centre.
The invite for this event can be found below:
Management Seminar: Gearing up for COP 17: What every manager should know...
MILE
hosted its sixth Management Seminar entitled:Gearing up for COP 17:
What every manager should know... The event took place at Luthuli Hall,
City Hall on 12 September 2011.
The invite for this event can be found below:
MILE Management Seminar-COP17.pdf
Management Seminar: “What is Durban’s Carbon Footprint?”
MILE
in partnership with eThekwini Municipality’s Energy Office and the
Durban Industry Climate Change Partnership Project (DICCPP) hosted a MILE Management Seminar entitled: “What is Durban’s Carbon
Footprint?” focusing on eThekwini’s 2010 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions
Inventory, on 28 October 2011.
The invite for this event can be found below:
Management Seminar - GHG.pdf
Management Seminar: What does the technological revolution mean for local government practitioners?
The eighth and last
Management Seminar for 2011 took place on 22 November 2011 at the
Durban Botanical Gardens Conference Centre.
The invite for this event can be found below:
This Management Seminar was held on 15th April 2010 in association with Imagine Durban. The topic of discussion was "Can we create a safer city through planning and design?"
"As City Leadership, are we having those crucial conversations?"
On the 7th of September 2010 MILE hosted the second seminar in its MEDS series. Facilitated by Helene Vermaak, co-owner and principal consultant for "The Human Edge", the session focused senior managers attention on how we can recognise a crucial conversation that has high stakes and correctly handle the conversation to ensure that the best conclusion results. See attached the "Get Abstract" from the book Crucial Conversations.
"Developing a Green Economy: Are we ready?"
On the 11th of October 2010 MILE hosted the third seminar in its MEDS Series. Thought leaders for the day, Dr Ivor Sarakinsky of Economic Development at National level and Dr Guy Preston from the Natural Resource Management Programmes of the Department of Environmental Affairs, were invited to share their experiences with the eThekwini officials. The session was facilitated by Dr Sershen Naidoo from the University of KwaZulu-Natal who posed many questions along the way helping the executives to think about many of the issues surrounding the green economy. See attached Learning Note.