QNEWS - FEB 28 VK4 ON AIR 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------* DID YOUR CLUB TELL ANYONE ABOUT AMATEUR RADIO THIS WEEK? QUEENSLAND (VK4) STATE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PORTAL Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest news, key facts and figures, contacts and answers to your questions. tinyurl.com/uddvmx98 ------------------------------------------------------------* THE FOLLOWING NEWS CAN BE HEARD FROM OUR AUDIO SERVICE Available in Audio RIGHT NOW www.wiaq.org.au Also search QNEWS (make sure it IS the Ham Radio QNEWS) in your podcast. listennotes.com/podcasts/q-news-ar-news-from-queensland-qnews-vk4bb-SHd0OpZILt1/ ------------------------------------------------------------* VK4 SILENT KEYS @ JULY 2020- MAY 2021 WIA YEAR SK CALL SK NAME ADVISED BY ex-VK4KJO Joachim Ostrenski (Joe Ski) 9/9/20 (vk4zz) VK4CNP Norm Philips 20/10/20 (vk4bat) ex-VK4FPJT Paul J Turner 22/10/20 (vk4bb) VK4HBN Alan Whiting 20/11/20 (vk4zz) VK4KAL Gordon Loveday 24/11/20 (vk4zz) ------------------------------------------------------------* Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking. There are times when a bit of luck causes a person to re-evaluate their way of doing things. I seemed to have that bit during the past week when I went to do some things and the broadcast radio was playing in the background. I really wasn’t planning to be diverted but then the interview started to pierce the concentration. I caught up with things when the person being interviewed explained how he came to change his way of doing things. The program was around books and the author was one Professor Adam Grant whose latest book was released just days ago. Adam Grant is regarded as an expert and is an academic as well as a well published author and his speciality is organisational psychology. Prof. Grant is a teacher at Wharton College and, as an author, has been on the New York Times best seller list. He admitted to a type of dogmatism in presenting his ideas but then he underwent an epiphany which he now teaches and presents in this latest book “Think Again� is the short title. Using his personal experiences and well accepted research he demonstrates a technique which aids decision making in most areas of life. Sorry if this sounds like a dust jacket blurb but this is about where I caught up with the radio interview. He pointed out that if you try and rebut someone’s understanding it simply causes them to hunker down in their thinking and you will never come to a meeting point. I have been in encounters of this type so I know what he was saying. What Adam Grant has come to understand and practice is speaking ideas in a way that you know is right but listening to others as if you are wrong. Well that was part of that cover blurb. What he explained is we need to say what we think and express interest in the other people’s ideas. This might be seen as simply a management tool but when we think of our interactions in private life and within social groups like clubs this skill enables us to gain personal understanding which we might otherwise miss out on and more readily enable others to share their opinions. By letting people know you wish to improve things and that you wish them to give you input you start a process of cultural change. By telling people you wish to understand their point of view and not arguing the point but using open questions you get to understand and they get to understand your position too. In the speak of the times, this is a win win solution and our enterprise can grow in ways that perhaps we individually could not see. So in my type of paraphrase of Adam Grant and “Think Again�, I’m VK4ZPP Geoff Emery and that’s what I think�.how about you? ------------------------------------------------------------* QNEWS Social Scene QUEENSLAND (VK4) STATE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PORTAL Coronavirus (COVID-19) latest news, key facts and figures, contacts and answers to your questions. tinyurl.com/uddvmx98 Due to the COVID-19 situation, please check these events' direct for up-to-date status information. ALL USA grades of licence will be held at the Sunshine Coast Amateur Radio club March 13. All details on vk4wis.org or contact Trent vk4ts@wia.org.au (FBook) Central Highlands Amateur Radio Club will participate in the John Moyle Memorial Field Day Contest March 20 and 21st at the Model Aero Club, Mosquito Creek. 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