Day One Agenda
Wednesday 2nd November, 2011

9.00
Welcome remarks from the Chair
John Cross, Acting Executive Director, Workforce
Planning and Development
State Services Authority, Victoria
Laying the foundations
9.10
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Building workforce capability in the Department of Defence
Phil Minns
Deputy Secretary, People, Strategies and Policy
Department of Defence
9.50
Laying the foundations for the workforce of the future – DoHA's People Strategy

  • About the People Strategy 2010-2015 including how staff were engaged in its development and how it was closely aligned with corporate and business planning
  • Implementing the People Strategy – enhancing recruitment and retention initiatives and strengthening capability development initiatives (needs analysis, collecting data, reviewing and updating capability maps)
Samantha Palmer, First Assistant Secretary, People,
Capability and Communication
Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA)
10.30
Building leadership capability from within

  • The impact of Leadership Behaviour (Capability) on employee engagement and organisational performance
  • The 70/20/10 framework and the importance of informal learning
  • Considerations for developing, implementing and measuring a leader-led and informal learning strategy
  • Embedding the 'Develop Others' skillset within the people manager's role
Andrew Gerkens
Director of Organisational Learning
Blended (Exclusive Harvard Business Publishing Distributor)
11.15
Morning tea & networking
11:35
Presentation by Deloitte
12:15
Pinpoint HRM
Craig Aunger
Principal
Pinpoint HRM
Progressing initiatives
12.45
Identifying & addressing the key challenges to workforce planning implementation

  • Moving from analysis to implementation
  • The challenges that exist for small agencies and more broadly – executive buy in, business case/ROI/ benchmarking debate, budgets and ER frameworks, dominant paradigms in job design, culture, recruitment
  • Potential solutions via agency collaboration – sharing resources/skills, change champion networks, strategic communications
Helen Kidston, Manager, People and Capability
The Australian Communications and Media Authority
1.25
Networking Lunch
2:25
Creating HR capability after the Blueprint – green fields
& quicksand

  • Reflections on developing a full HR capability following the release of the Blueprint Reflections from the first 12 months and insights from the first Capability Review
  • Looking back at the recovery program following the closure of the Home Insulation Program
Jo Hart, Assistant Secretary, Human Resources Branch
Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
3:05
IP Australia's experience using the ICT Capability Framework

  • How IP Australia structured its ICT workforce planning around an industry standard framework
  • How this translated into workforce strategies and assisted with recruitment campaigns
  • Next steps for us – using the framework to drive career path development, succession planning and performance management
Grant Nicholson, Manager Resources and Planning
IP Australia
3.45
Afternoon tea & networking
4:00
INTERACTIVE SESSION
What constitutes quality leadership & embedding it in your organisation

  • The management of things – the leadership of people
  • The role of experiential learning in quality leadership
  • Making world class leadership a sustainable and embedded behaviour
Angus Macalister, Chief Operating Officer
Australian Institute of Management (AIM)
4:40
Targeted recruitment & retention programs & forging partnerships with the education sector to build required capabilities

  • TMR's targeted approach to attraction and retention – the successful Employer Brand advertising campaign
  • Attracting and retaining key technical professionals in a competitive talent pool – TMR's partnership with the University of Southern Queensland and its tailored incentive package to assist in retention in remote and rural locations
  • TMR's 'talent pipeline' approach and how it meets the challenge of delivering its promise to graduates
Ron Heffernan
Acting General Manager, People and Capability
Department of Transport and Main Roads, QLD (TMR)
5:25
Chair's closing remarks & close of day one

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