Day 1 Agenda
Monday 21st September 2009
8:30 REGISTRATION, COFFEE AND NETWORKING
9:00 WELCOMING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR
Tony Wallace
Director Strategic Workforce Planning
Department of Defence
CURRENT WORKFORCE AND FUTURE NEEDS
9:10 THE WORKFORCE PLANNING IMPERATIVE IN
THE
AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SECTOR
• Managing the workforce in turbulent
economic times
• Positioning your business for the economic recovery
• Using workforce planning as traction for direction
• ‘One’ plan – corporate, workforce, finance
• Workforce Planning progress in Australia – case studies,
networks and resources
Julie Sloan
Director
Workforce Planning Australia
9:50 INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
A Strategic Overview
• Addressing skills gaps
• Broadening labour supply
• Implementing innovation and sustainability
• Changing work practices
• Career management
Richard Millington
Director Innovation and Skills
Development
Department of Education, Employment and
Workplace Relations
10:30 MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING
LEADERSHIP
11:00 ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF WORKFORCE
CHARACTERISTICS
Keeping your Finger on the Pulse
• Emphasising the importance of quality
leadership
• Knowing your workforce and understanding your
environment
• Aligning workforce planning with culture
• Articulating your vision, objectives and drivers
Tony Wallace
Director, Strategic Workforce Planning
Department of Defence
11:40 BUILDING CAPABILITY FOR GOVERNMENT
Increasing Engagement with Staff
• Centrelink’s integrated approach to
workforce
planning and business planning
• Centrelink’s workforce realignment program –
supply and demand analysis in practice
• An insight into how Centrelink uses workforce
information to deploy its emergency management
and community recovery capability
Narelle Cameron
Business Manager,
People Strategy Branch, Centrelink
12:20 LUNCH
STRATEGY
1:20 THE FUTURE OF WORK IN THE VICTORIAN
PUBLIC SECTOR
Addressing Current Workforce Challenges
• Responding to the demand for the public
sector to
do more with less
• Approaching workforce planning in a volatile financial
climate
• Adapting to workforce planning needs with fluctuating
unemployment levels
Bernadette Fallon
Principal Adviser, Workforce Strategy,
Workforce Planning and Development,
State Services Authority, VIC
2:00 STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING:
Building Workforce Capacity
• Leveraging and building leadership
across diverse
contexts
• Aligning strategic business and workforce planning
• Promoting performance management, development
and career planning
• Fostering a partnering approach to workforce planning
Diane Wasson
Director
Human Resource Policy and Planning,
NSW Department of Education and Training
2:40 AFTERNOON TEA, AND NETWORKING
3:10 STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING WITHIN
THE
MEDICAL WORKFORCE
Opportunities for Reform
• Streamlining the medical education
continuum
and the clinical learning environment
• Focusing on people and place
Glenda Gorrie
Manager Medical Workforce, Service and
Workforce Planning Branch,
Department of Human Services, VIC
3:50 FROM PLANNING TO STRATEGY
Addressing the Future Clinical Workforce Shortfall
• Creating a new workforce
• Developing new roles
• Illustrating new ways of doing business
Glynis Schultz
Director, Workforce Planning,
Department of Queensland Health
4:30 CLOSING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR
5:30 WORKSHOP A (elect to attend ):
The Essential Nature of Leadership in
Workforce Planning
Workshop Leader: Tony Wallace
Director, Strategic Workforce Planning
Department of Defence
This workshop will include a
relaxed working
dinner for all participants.
