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Department of Communication and Applied Behavioural Science (CABS) Overview 2016
CABS has streamlined the substantially revised Commissioning Course content throughout 2016, and developed and deliv-
ered new courses such as the PQCC and the Leadership Development Course. Signi cant work has been undertaken in re ning and devel- oping material on the DLE, with Janet McCourt providing her IT expertise and experience in web design taking the lead for us. The CABS DLE page now has internally produced mini lms, interviews and podcasts for the cadets to access as well as the essential course material. CABS also joined Twitter in September, so staff have had to get their heads round ‘tweets’.
ship and has presented at two conferences in tandem with Anthea, Dr Mike Rennie has been advising emergency services as well as present- ing at conferences; Dr Stephen Deakin travelled to Norway to present and is actively publishing papers and articles in his specialism of ethical leadership. Dr Deborah Goodwin (HoD) spoke at the Defence International Symposium on Opera- tional Research at Royal Holloway in July, and is linked in to Home Command Engagement and BAME debates.
PGCERT Module Managers, Lt Col (Retd) Chris Jacobs and Sam Staples have worked extremely hard to rationalise some of the more cumbersome administrative aspects of the HE partnership and this has taken a signi cant amount of their time and effort. Both have also provided training workshops for their colleagues on various top- ics which have been received very positively, and gratefully.
CABS has also experienced staff movement in 2016. In April we lost Simon Taylor to a private consultancy in the big smoke, and in August Ann Stow left us to undertake the ACSC and move forward in her Civil Service career. Lt Col (Retd) Dennis Vincent has been promoted to Deputy Head CABS following Ann’s departure. We were pleased to welcome Sam to our ranks in the spring.
Despite a very busy teaching schedule, many of the CABS team are either undertaking higher level studies, or writing or speaking at various confer- ences throughout the year. Gareth Bloom eld and Anthea Lemmon have started PhD studies, Sarah Oliver is completing her PGCAP at Read- ing University together with Chris and Gareth; Dr Tulika Jaiswal is researching Adaptive Leader-
Throughout 2016 CABS has been involved in the growing number of courses for the Sandhurst Group and the General Staff Centre at Robertson House. Dr Deborah Good- win lectured on the Colonels Course and new General’s course, and Lt Col (Retd) Dennis Vincent lectured on the Colonels Course in December. Sarah has developed very well received courses for the Professionally Quali- ed Of cers, Reserve CC and the international cadets. In the autumn, Mike undertook the development and delivery of the CABS element of the new Leadership Development Course, and helped to run their eld exercise, while also role
playing a ‘dodgy dealer’.
The CABS team is helping to develop new mate- rial and formal thought for RMAS, Sandhurst Group and the wider Army. Throughout the year we have been involved in re-working pre-deploy- ment training course material for MTMC, creat- ing new instructional material such as decision- making cards, advising and contributing to new strategic level doctrine (especially stabilisation), researching and developing leadership frame- works and involvement in the pan-defence ethi- cal leadership debate. In addition, Dennis, Sam, Tulika, Anthea, Stephen and Gareth have run international Psychology of Leadership courses on behalf of the main building MoD IPP team, often in very unglamorous surroundings.
Both have also provided training workshops for their colleagues on various topics...
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