Comments and Musings

By Francis Lynch

This podcast by Francis Lynch sometimes has guests and has comments and musings on issues in the social justice, leadership, and community service spaces. It would be great if you would click the subs... more

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September 13, 2020 Karyn Walsh - Covid Impacts on Micah Projects - Homelessness
Karyn Walsh AM is the CEO of Micah Projects in Queensland. She has been leading the organisation for many years and also led many sector projects at a state and national level. Her commitments have included leading Chairing the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness, and being a past President of the Queensland Council of Social Services.
In this interview Karyn talks about how the outreach nature of Micah's services has been challenged, but been a key strength of how they have been able to support people in 2020. She also talks about how their existing integration of nurses into their outreach teams has been a significant factor in keeping homeless people in Brisbane well during these times.
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25min
September 05, 2020 Dr Nicky Howe - Covid Impacts on Southcare - community aged care
Dr Nicky Howe leads a community aged care and community services organisation in Perth, Western Australia. We discuss how Southcare has adapted to the Covid-19 challenges.
Whilst WA has not had a second wave of Covid, Southcare is acting as if they are in a high risk environment and has built its response as if they have Covid positive customers.
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19min
August 01, 2016 Standing Up for what is right
This is the speech that I gave as the opening of the ACOSS Conference in June 2014. This was only a few weeks after the horror first Budget of the Abbott Government. Many in the community sector were shocked at the attack on low income people and were afraid of the consequences for vulnerable people and themselves. An associated blog article is here. The ACOSS website is at www.acoss.org.au My blog is at francislynch.me
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10min
July 13, 2016 Organisational Culture
When people join an organisation, there’s usually some reason why they want to be there. Sometimes it’s just a job, but often it’s about connecting to the purpose of the organisation or the values of the organisation.
The big WHY – why does this organisation matter, why does it do what it does? Those things can be attractive. But the way that things get done here in this organisation can matter even more than the Why.
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8min
July 01, 2016 Why would a leader give away some of their power?
As leaders we all must work out the best ways of engaging people. there are new approaches coming up all the time. In this podcast I suggest that we need to act like startups and try lots of things, ditch what doesn't work, and keep doing what looks promising.
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7min
June 27, 2016 Winding up a Not For Profit
I was surprised when I was reading the Australian Institute of Company Directors report recently, it was a report on Not For Profit Governance and Performance in 2015. The report was saying that one of the factors was that 8% of all boards in the non-profit sector have discussed winding up in the last year. I was surprised by that. I know there’s been a lot of discussion around mergers over recent years, but that number, 8% of boards having discussed winding up in the last year, is surprising to me. And the interesting thing too, is if you look at the size of the organi
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11min
September 03, 2015 Seek the rewards of using your strengths at work
This episode refers to the benefits that I have received from using the Via Character Strengths test, and my belief that it is helpful for leaders to know how to use both their signature strengths and their middle and lesser strengths. The Via Institute on Character can be found at http://www.viacharacter.org/www/ The Character Strengths Test can be found at https://www.viacharacter.org/survey/account/register The Via Me! report that I mention in the podcast can be found at http://www.viacharacter.org/www/Resources-Courses-Reports/The-VIA-Me-Report I really encourage you to at least do the free test and get the short form report.
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11min
August 01, 2015 Who do I bring to the workplace?
Do I create the right workplace environment to allow people to bring their creative and playful selves into the workplace? Or are many people, including myself, leaving useful parts of ourselves at the front door of the workplace along with our dirty work boots.
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10min
July 27, 2015 7 Tips for keeping focused on what clients want
It's easy to get caught doing work that doesn't really add value to the clients that you are serving. So how do I keep focussed on what my clients want? I have 7 simple tips of what might keep me focused on doing the things that matter. The show notes for this podcast include a downloadable tip sheet.
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10min
July 24, 2015 Who gets to solve "wicked problems"?
It appears that some private corporations see a market opportunity in helping to address, and maybe even solve, wicked problems like homelessness and domestic violence. Is that ok? Does it matter? If it does what is to be done to create a different future?
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10min

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How many episodes does Comments and Musings have?

The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.