Workforce Development Strategy 2003-2005
This strategy establishes a whole of organisation approach to professional learning and training and will:
- Build the capacity of staff as individuals and as members of
the Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET);
- Position DEET to better meet the education, employment and training needs
of the Territory now and in the future;
- Implement the professional learning sections of current Enterprise
Bargaining Agreements and a number of recommendations from the
Learning
Lessons review of Indigenous education;
- Contribute to positioning DEET as a learning organisation.
DEET Workforce Development Strategy booklet
One objective
Effective, targeted professional learning and training that are aligned with system goals and meet the needs of staff throughout their careers.
Seven underpinning principles
- To build and embed a culture of lifelong learning and reflective
practice
- Professional learning and training is integral to a quality
workforce
- Workforce development is aligned to the needs of the system,
the workplace and the individual
- Professional learning plans are aligned to system priorities
and needs
- Workforce development is based on mutual obligation:
- All staff share and apply learning
- Leadership supports a learning culture
- Workplace learning communities support sharing of knowledge,
skills, diversity and innovation
- Transparency and equity underpin access to, and provision of professional learning and training.
Contact Details
Workforce Development and Learning
People & Learning Division
Department of Employment, Education and Training
Phone: (08) 8999 5775