Day Two Agenda
Thursday 3rd November, 2011

9.00
Welcome remarks from the Chair & re-cap of day one
Andrew Gerkens
Director of Organisational Learning
Blended
Towards a more strategic, business-aligned approach
9.10
Unpacking the ATO's successful integrated approach to capability development

  • About the ATO's Workforce Capability Glossary and how it places domains, capabilities and their associated behaviours at the centre of all HR processes
  • The ATO's best practice Job Profiling – how Job Profiles were constructed and integrating them with resource planning
  • Building 'The Job' – a source of all information required in relation to each job type
  • Spotlight on the ATO's integrated approach to entry-level recruitment – Destination ATO
David Diment, First Assistant Commissioner, ATO People
Australian Taxation Office
9.50
Forging stronger links between HR & the business to build the workforce of the future

  • DIAC's capability development journey – challenges, frameworks, progress and future directions
  • Linking business and workforce planning and forging strong links between HR and the executive for a true 'human capital management' approach
  • What HR practitioners can do to build stronger linkages between HR and the executive – understanding the executive mindset, speaking their language and painting the picture with appropriate metrics
Craig Farrell, First Assistant Secretary,
People Strategy and Services
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
10.30
PRIVATE SECTOR PERSPECTIVE
Delivering strategic HR metrics for insight

  • The crucial role HR metrics play in gaining executive buyin/ support and ensuring business initiatives drive current and future goals
  • Transfield Services' approach to strategic HR metrics
  • Beyond data – telling a story with metrics and presenting the right metrics to the right people for real impact
Elizabeth Hunter, Chief Executive, Human Resources
Transfield Services
11.10
Morning tea & networking
11.40
The paradox of work/life balance – from surviving to thriving

  • Reflect on the effects of an intense and highly complex public service agenda
  • Ground truth the myths of work/life balance
  • Methods for increasing workforce effectiveness by integrating work and life
  • Strategies for optimising stress levels to avoid rust out or burn out
Helen Wood, Managing Director
TMS Consulting
12.10
A framework for strategic capability

  • ADHC's workforce capability journey
  • Finding the right workforce capability solutions for a large, complex public sector agency
  • Building ADHC's capability and capacity to deliver on its strategic and operational mandate
Jacqui Astolfi
Director, Strategic Capability
Ageing, Disability and Home Care
Department of Family and Community Services, NSW
12.50
Improving the efficiency & effectiveness of merit based
recruitment & selection processes to align with future workforce capability requirements
John Richards, CEO
Onetest
1.20
Networking lunch
2.20
Roundtable Session
Effective performance management, talent management, leadership development & beyond!
3.00
Developing leaders & building capability for a strengthened organisation

  • About our leadership development initiatives, our capability framework and our online self-assessment tool
  • Thinking outside the box to gain executive buy-in for people and organisational development initiatives – how we've made it happen
  • How our leadership and capability development programs are impacting the organisation culturally and leading to a strengthened organisation
Chris Corrigan, Manager Organisational
Development and Learning
Department of Sustainability and Environment, VIC
3:40
Afternoon tea & networking
3:55
Towards effective & business aligned performance management

  • Aligning HR with business needs – our partnering model
  • The importance of aligning employee effort to the achievement of corporate objectives – and how
  • Mutually Agreed Achievement Plans (MAAP) – the journey
Rory Martin, HR Senior Business Partner
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
4:35
Bringing capability to life – beyond the usual touch-points

  • How the Department of Primary Industries established it Capability Framework collaboratively
  • How the Department uses the framework in recruitment, has aligned learning options and includes capabilities in performance management
  • Gaining the greatest traction through using the Capability Framework in organisational change processes
Leanne Brown
Manager, Strategy, Solutions and Initiatives
Department of Primary Industries, VIC
5.10
Chair's closing remarks & close of conference

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