Day 2 Agenda
Tuesday  22nd September 2009

8:30 REGISTRATION, COFFEE AND NETWORKING

9:00 WELCOMING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR
Anna Lutz
Director, Workforce Planning and Recruitment,
Australian Customs and Border Security

WORKFORCE PLANNING DATA AND
INTELLIGENCE

9:10 THE DEVELOPMENT OF A WHOLE-OFGOVERNMENT
ICT WORKFORCE PLAN
(A Key Recommendation of the Gershon Report)
Developing a strategic Whole-• of-Government ICT
Workforce Plan
• Illustrating the key elements of the process
• The importance of governance structures and clear
objectives
• Transferring the learnings to other settings
Damian West
Project Leader, Cross-Agency ICT Skills
Reform Team, Australian Public Service Commission and
Australian Government Information Management Office

9:50 BUSINESS REPORTING AND ANALYTICAL TOOLS
FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Building Workforce Capacity
• Developing a workforce reporting framework that
underpins our workforce planning approach
• Innovative systems that provide data on HR workforce
indicators
• Providing data access to business areas and use of data
to complement other business reporting tools
Anna Lutz
Director, Workforce Planning and Recruitment,
Australian Customs and Border Security Service

10:30 MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING

11:00 WHOLE-OF-GOVERNMENT WORKFORCE
PLANNING IN A DECENTRALISED SYSTEM
• An approach to Strategic Workforce Planning within the
SA Public Sector
• Human Resource data - collecting it and using it
• Qualitative and quantitative data
Jan Ellis
Director, Office for Ethical Standards and
Professional Integrity, Commissioner for Public Employment,
Department of Premier and Cabinet, SA

11:40 IMPLEMENTATION OF STATE-WIDE
WORKFORCE PLANS
Overcoming Obstacles
• Aligning needs of diverse government agencies
• Planning for the short term needs of line agencies and
long term needs of central agencies
• Balancing the workforce needs of the public and private
sectors from a whole-of-state perspective
• An overview of innovative e-Recruitment Public Sector
Reform project

12:20 LUNCH

1:20 A FRAMEWORK AND METHODOLOGY FOR
NT WORKFORCE PLANNING APS
• Developing consistency across agencies
• Recognising the differences and allowing for
those using a consistent framework
• Highlighting the need for workforce planning
before development
• Developing better ways to generate best-practice
workforce planning data and solutions
Cameron Tyrrell
Principal Advisor, Strategic Workforce
Planning and Development Team,
Office of the Commissioner for Public Employment, NT

2:00 STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING AT
A LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL
A South Australian Approach
• Engaging local business communities in
workforce planning and development
• An explanation of the Supply Gap Calculator:
obtaining meaningful data and intelligence on
overall workforce profiles
• Responding to and evaluating regional
workforce planning needs and initiatives
Bridget Ransome
Economic Development Officer,
City of Marion, SA

2:40 AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING
MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS

3:10 THE CHANGING FACE OF TALENT POOLS
AND ORGANISATIONAL EXPECTATIONS
Adapting Workforce Planning Needs
• The role of strategic planning in building a
future workforce
• The value of data – quality, reliability, measurement
• Measuring the impact on the business from
workforce plans
• Review and renew – keeping the plan going
Michael Stanley
Manager, Workforce Capability,
Human Resources Strategy Branch,
Roads & Traffic Authority, NSW

3:50 IMPLEMENTING AND REVIEWING
WORKFORCE PLANNING
Attracting and Retaining the Mature Age Market
• Planning and assessing the risks of workforce
plans in a changing environment
• Budget analysis of your strategic workforce plan
• Managing the needs of mature age staff looking to
retire Transferring knowledge management between
exiting and existing employees
Jennie Hunter
Principal HR Consultant, Human Resources
Unit, Executive & Strategic Services,
Department of Justice and Attorney General, QLD

4:30 CLOSING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR