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Give the Chair power to call conversations off line

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Give the Chair power to call conversations off line

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Some processes are connected to university wide milestones, such as HDR confirmations that need to be scheduled. so would this be core?

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Some processes are connected to university wide milestones, such as HDR confirmations that need to be scheduled. so would this be core?

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Hi - we seem to often have presentations to update or provide information on core support services (eg. research office etc). Could we instead have easy to access to links with easy to read information that can be accessed at any time. Thank you.

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reduce working hours. Later starting times, earlier finishing times. No point in a longer lunch.

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Move to Teams more? Would love to have this integrated with CloudDeakin (so much easier to interact with students)

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Move to Teams more? Would love to have this integrated with CloudDeakin (so much easier to interact with students)

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Cut out meeting with this part of the team, then that part of the team, then the whole team.  Reporting at all those meetings on what we are doing.  Have faith that we know what to do and are mature enough to ask if we need help.

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Cut out meeting with this part of the team, then that part of the team, then the whole team.  Reporting at all those meetings on what we are doing.  Have faith that we know what to do and are mature enough to ask if we need help.

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Give blood, platelets or plasma. It's a good distraction for a moment, and you will give something back.

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Meditation (Relax) for few minutes to start your working day each day and after COB

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Meditation (Relax) for few minutes to start your working day each day and after COB

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Have a Faculty recommended email signature line re "no after 6 or weekend communications" 

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Have a Faculty recommended email signature line re "no after 6 or weekend communications" 

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Support flexibility around working hours - don't make it prohibitive for staff to set their own hours that work best for them and their situation. There can be indirect barriers to this such as expectations around email responses, meeting times, and notification/approval of working hours.

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Support flexibility around working hours - don't make it prohibitive for staff to set their own hours that work best for them and their situation. There can be indirect barriers to this such as expectations around email responses, meeting times, and notification/approval of working hours.

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Maybe just a challenge for newer staff but it is hard to find professional staff phone numbers especially for the core support areas. The generic support email is great but not always the most efficient approach. Thank you.

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"the only means of fighting a plague is — common decency". Camus, The Plague.

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Think before you CC in all staff to emails. 

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Think before you CC in all staff to emails. 

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Postpone reporting meetings and deakin achieve

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Postpone reporting meetings and deakin achieve

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4 day work week - a doona day per week until end of year.

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4 day work week - a doona day per week until end of year.

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have a faculty wide lunch time. You set a time for yourself and then people disrespect the time blocked out

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have a faculty wide lunch time. You set a time for yourself and then people disrespect the time blocked out

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Are there ways we can reduce administrative burdens in and around teaching? 

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Are there ways we can reduce administrative burdens in and around teaching? 

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Join the walking groups that have been set up 

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Join the walking groups that have been set up 

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Journalling has been incredibly helpfully this entire pandemic 

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Journalling has been incredibly helpfully this entire pandemic 

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2 week slow down like what other Universities have done for staff

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2 week slow down like what other Universities have done for staff

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Perhaps not assume that everyone wants to rush back to social activities?

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Perhaps not assume that everyone wants to rush back to social activities?

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Take time once a day to do something for you

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Take time once a day to do something for you

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Where you can (within guidelines) make a meeting with 1 person and take a walk

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Where you can (within guidelines) make a meeting with 1 person and take a walk

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Recognise the additional load teaching is taking in practice (actual time for tasks) and adjust workload to recognise this by 20%

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Recognise the additional load teaching is taking in practice (actual time for tasks) and adjust workload to recognise this by 20%

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Acknowledge research outputs need to recognise Covid 19 (lockdown) adjustment. The same outputs are not achievable in the workload allocation model 2020-2021/22

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Acknowledge research outputs need to recognise Covid 19 (lockdown) adjustment. The same outputs are not achievable in the workload allocation model 2020-2021/22

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If you send an email, specify what action the person needs to take (if any) or if it's fyi. and ask (respectfully) what time frame they can respond by. 

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If you send an email, specify what action the person needs to take (if any) or if it's fyi. and ask (respectfully) what time frame they can respond by. 

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Please be careful about stigmatising mental health and wellbeing, as many of these effects will take time to emerge, and may not be fixable by doing less "stuff".

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A lot of "low value" (actually important, but not directly productive) work is being pushed onto academics because of major workplace change in the professional staff.  How is this going to help the University in the long run?  The losses to Deakin will be hidden until some time in the future when reduced research productivity and increased researcher burnout rates start to surface.

To fix this, set up someone in the faculty to handle these tasks for academics.  We do them so seldom, but they are so complex and there are so many different ones, plus there's a huge learning curve each and every time.  This is costing us a lot of productive time.

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If a meeting can be handled offline via circulation it should be - only meet on Zoom if it cant be resolved

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If a meeting can be handled offline via circulation it should be - only meet on Zoom if it cant be resolved

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Make time to go for a walk with one colleague each week (where within guidelines)

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Make time to go for a walk with one colleague each week (where within guidelines)

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low value is better termed discretionary

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low value is better termed discretionary

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Processes that academic staff find cumbersome is not well understood.
If we could gather a hitlist in terms of the most time consuming, there may be options for improvement. Some will be out of reach (i.e. University led - such as assignment extensions), but others may be achievable even in the short term (e.g. research expenditure approvals).
That said, need to be mindful of introducing more change, and the impacts on staff. Ideas that are low change but high reward is what we're looking for.

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ACU gave their staff Wednesday mornings off for a period  as a well-being time - in recognition of the stress staff are under. In recognition that less stressed staff are more productive.  “It will provide a half day a week for you to focus on what you know makes you well … it might be a walk outdoors, an online fitness class, a coffee catch-up, reading a novel, or time spent in prayer or meditation,” Vice Chancellor Zlatko Skrbis tell staff.  (People with immoveable commitments can take their WWB at other times).

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ACU gave their staff Wednesday mornings off for a period  as a well-being time - in recognition of the stress staff are under. In recognition that less stressed staff are more productive.  “It will provide a half day a week for you to focus on what you know makes you well … it might be a walk outdoors, an online fitness class, a coffee catch-up, reading a novel, or time spent in prayer or meditation,” Vice Chancellor Zlatko Skrbis tell staff.  (People with immoveable commitments can take their WWB at other times).

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If there is no agenda - reconsider the need to meet.

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If there is no agenda - reconsider the need to meet.

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If possible - always start on time and end early. Everyone appreciates and early finish to a meeting.

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If possible - always start on time and end early. Everyone appreciates and early finish to a meeting.

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Focus on core business. Everything else needs to take a back seat.

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Focus on core business. Everything else needs to take a back seat.

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Pick up the phone (teams, skype whatever) - and have a quick chat. Often better than email.

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Pick up the phone (teams, skype whatever) - and have a quick chat. Often better than email.

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We have meeting free Friday's - how much better would an early finish be!

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We have meeting free Friday's - how much better would an early finish be!

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For those with children - of any age - I see you, I feel you.

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For those with children - of any age - I see you, I feel you.

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activate 'focus time' in microsoft outlook in calendar

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activate 'focus time' in microsoft outlook in calendar

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Use the thumbs up icon in microsoft outlook emails rather than to reply for agreement/thank you. 

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Use the thumbs up icon in microsoft outlook emails rather than to reply for agreement/thank you. 

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Can't see how doona days, long lunches and extra days off are "working simpler and smarter"? 

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Can't see how doona days, long lunches and extra days off are "working simpler and smarter"? 

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Change the way we approach Deakin Achieve to be more about staff wellbeing and development, rather than just evaluating performance. It should be a check-in rather than a big annual review.

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Do we actually need all of the committees that we have?

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Do we actually need all of the committees that we have?

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Look at the decisions that need to be made in the Faculty, where they are currently being made, and what committees we are required to have under policy (eg Faculty Board and APC) and use those committees more effectively rather than establishing new committees to cover niche areas.
We also have many staff who are on the same committees so their time could be used more effectively. Agendas are often full of reports and items for information that could be shared in other ways rather than holding a meeting.
My suggestion is to make better use of Faculty Board and reduce the number of discretionary committees in the Faculty.

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Any chance we could consider having just one Faculty newsletter? Exec Dean, DBS Dean, Head of Department, etc is too many.
Plus do professional staff and academic staff get the same news?

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Agree that we need to reduce the number of committees and get them working more effectively. Fac board seems to be under utilised and staff that have nominated don't feel that they have enough to do. 

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Agree that we need to reduce the number of committees and get them working more effectively. Fac board seems to be under utilised and staff that have nominated don't feel that they have enough to do. 

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Also aware that some staff end up on lots of committees so they are over burdened and the decision making group is narrow.