Terms of Engagement
The stakeholder engagement and associated training needs analysis activities deployed to set out the specification for the Centre of Excellence from which it was built established a clear importance on the value of the community learning from each other to facilitate the developments in skills and expertise required to boost capability in the region. Related to this is an acknowledgment that the Centre of Excellence therefore needs to be dynamic space where positive interactions can take place to foster a community that empowers collective learning. To assist with this endeavour we have the below terms of engagement to guide usage of the Centre of Excellence.
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Treat Others with Respect: Treat interactions with others like you would face-to-face interactions by being respectful. Feeling free to express your ideas but avoiding offensive or hurtful language.
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Be professional in communications: The Chat Forum is designed to be a safe space where ideas and thoughts can be shared and discussed in an open manner between those participating within any specific chat forum category. However, despite the privacy of the space it is still important to be professional in communications and not posting language which one would be embarrassed to reread in the future.
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Be curious: The Centre of Excellence provides an opportunity to learn more across the sector and from each other. If there is something you want to know more about that you cannot find on the site start a chat forum post about it and please use the feedback button to make queries and provide feedback on the site.
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Try to align comments to topics: As there are many different topics of conversation as much as is realistic, please try to post comments and replies that are relevant to the topics theme so that everyone can find the most useful content for whatever it is that they are trying to engage with. If there is not an appropriate topic in existence, then please start a new one and ‘create a new post’!
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Collaborate and Network: The Centre of Excellence is focused on enabling collaboration to facilitate opportunities and ideas in the sector. Therefore, please use the site as a networking hub to connect with fellow professionals in the region.
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Respect Privacy: Providing the right levels of access is key functionality principle for the Centre of Excellence therefore please be mindful that the Centre of Excellence is to be treated as a private space. Furthermore, please refrain from sharing personal information about others without their consent.