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Conference on Work-Life Balance with a strategic perspective

Tuesday 8 March 2005 the Danish Centre For Balance between Worklife and Family Life (CBAF) will be holding a full day conference on work-life balance in Copenhagen.

At the conference a number of both Danish and international researchers and business leaders will present a strategic perspective on how to create a framework for creating work-life balance for both leaders and employees.

The conference is addressed at directors, leaders and key employees with an interest in work-life balance.

Read more about the conference programme (in Danish) here >>

CBAF's think tank will 10 February 2005 be publishing a report with recommendations and conclusions. The report focuses on both the demands and expectations that future leaders and employees will be having of work life and family life, as well as on the children's demands for balance in their lives. The (Danish) report can be pre-ordered here >>

Read more about CBAF's work at www.cbaf.dk

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Presentation on future leadership in Denmark

Wednesday 26 January I will be holding a presentation on holistic leadership, based on my prize-winning essay A Future Leadership Model For Denmark.

The presentation sets the scene for future business challenges, gives an introduction to the concept of holistic leadership, including the new leadership roles and tasks, an insight into why this kind of leadership seems to become an important key factor for the success of businesses both now and in the future, along with examples of practice, an outline of the opportunities, challenges and barriers to practice, as well as some suggestions as to how a holistic business approach can be promoted successfully in Danish organisations.

You can read more about the presentation here >>

Time: 6.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. Doors open at 5.30 p.m.

Place: Rosendalsgade 11, kld. • 2100 København Ø. Road map can be downloaded here >>

Entrance: 160 kr. per person. Ticket can be purchased at entry.

Sign-up: Is recommended due to limited number of seats - sign up at inspiratorium@taniaellis.dk

You are welcome to forward this invitation to others with a possible interest in participation.

Welcome!



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Start-up of Inspiratorium™ dialogue groups in February

Inspiratorium™ is the product name for my presentations, workshops - and now also dialogue groups. Inspiratorium™ is the combination of a knowledge laboratory and en experimentarium - an open working space for generating new ideas that can be transformed into value-adding dialogue and action.

The purpose of the dialogue groups is to lift leadership and work life into a broader perspective in order to create new insights and reference frames that provide inspiration for new work practices.

In practice the Inspiratorium™ dialogue groups operate as an open learning and working space with interaction between theory and practice, between action and reflection. The course consists of five theme meetings of each four hours from February to June 2005. Each meeting includes lectures, presentations, exercises and discussions.

Sign-up soon is recommended due to the limited number of participants (max. 10). The planned meetings take place in Copenhagen. Other groups around Denmark can be established by arrangement. If you are interested in establishing an Inspiratorium™ dialogue group in your local area you are welcome to send an e-mail to te@taniaellis.dk

Read more about the Inspiratorium™ dialogue groups, programme content etc. here >>

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Book on career and family life

Apropos balance between family and work life Danish author Kirsten Stendevad recently published her new book "Moderskab som karrierefordel" (Motherhood as career booster). The book is - as the title indicates - first and foremost addressed to women, but contains a number of central points that both men and women can use as a source of inspiration as to how parenthood can be used as an asset in modern leadership and work life.

Among other things, Stendevad writes about the new labour market, and about how the (leadership) competencies that are in demand now and in the future relate to the competencies that you develop as a mother, along with practical advice on how women can use their maternity leave as a means of promoting their career.

...And men do not have to wait too long - Stendevad is already in the process of writing a book on fatherhood as career booster.

You can read more about the book in Danish at www.moderskabsomkarrierefordel.dk
or in English at www.motherhoodascareerbooster.com



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Tania Ellis :: Skt. Peders Straede 24 :: 1453 Copenhagen K :: Tel 26252295 :: te@taniaellis.dk :: www.taniaellis.dk