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Public Sector
Human Resources 2014
An active planning and transition guide


This highly unique and cost effective guide will give you the practical knowledge
via a forum setting hear from your industry peers while also engage in a hands-on interactive workshop on
Linking Strategy and HR Action, all set across just one day.
Your time is crucial now, more than ever before!
Plan, Adapt, Create & Forge Ahead

Australian Public Service Commission
Australian Defence Force
Department of Finance
Australia Post
LinkedIn
NAB
Forum-Integrated Workshop by:
Workforce Planning Australia
ONE DAY ONLY - 15 September 2014, Rydges Capital Hill, Canberra
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The aim of the workshop is to provide
practical insights about initiating, implementing
and integrating workforce planning into normal
business operations in a Government Agency.
The workshop is highly interactive and uses
case studies to explore the key topics in
workforce planning. Given the impending
changes in the government sector, it is now or
never for workforce planning.
Only $995 plus gst to attend - $895 if you join before the early bird
Monday, 15 September 2014
Public Sector Human Resources 2014
15 September, 2014 Rydges Capital Hill, Canberra
AGENDA
Plan, Adapt, Create & Forge Ahead
8:30 Registration and refreshments
9:00 Chairperson's opening remarks
Tony Wallace, Principal, Workforce Planning Australia
9:10 Stakeholder Engagement - Slow Learners vs Learning
Organisations
Mapping stakeholders - differentiating between the need-to-know
and knowing the need
Stakeholder Agendas and Priorities - clash of the inter-agency titans
Tactical Advantage - Common Operating Picture or Contested
Terrain?
Barbara Butler, Lieutenant Commander, RANR,
Joint Operations Command, Australian Defence Force
9:50 Managing Absence in the APS
Understanding the nature of workplace absence
Drivers of workplace absence
Good practice in managing workplace absence
Tony Cotton, Director Human Capital Research and Analysis,
Australian Public Service Commission
10:30 Morning refreshments and networking
10:45 Post People 1st Australia Post Case Study
How Australia Post is responding creatively and proactively to the
global postal decline with the Post People 1st initiative
Post People 1st - providing every employee access to the jobs,
skills and career support they need to make an informed choice
about their career - whether thats inside of Post or outside in the
broader labour market
Rebecca Houghton, Head of Recruitment & Transition,
Australia Post
11:30 Workforce planning in an uncertain environment how do you, the
HR professional, support the organisation?
Building a workforce plan and capability framework that allows
flexibility for change
Explaining the benefits of workforce planning in managing volatile
and changing priorities and environments
Engaging with the business in a practical and client centred way
Robyn Black, Director, Strategic HR, Department of Finance
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12:15 Business networking lunch (let us know if you have any special dietary
requirements two weeks prior to forum)
1:15 Effective Social Media Strategies
What is social recruiting?
How professional networks are leveraged for efficiency and cost
saving by public sector
Its a journey where do we start?
Global and Australian social media perspectives
What the future holds
Ian Jensen, Head of Enterprise & Government Sales A/NZ, LinkedIn
2:00 Reinventing your organisational culture in times of uncertainty and
lack of trust
Why should you care about culture?
Engagement and Collaboration: Why it's important to focus on your
people and how they interact through their networks - and not the
tools they use
The Paradox of Culture and Openness: How to create a co-
operative culture in times of complexity, volatility and change
Helen Blunden, formerly at NAB as a Digital Learning Consultant

2:45 Afternoon refreshments and networking
3:00 Workshop: Workforce Planning Linking Strategy and HR Action
The aim of the workshop is to provide practical insights about
initiating, implementing and integrating workforce planning into
normal business operations in a Government Agency. The workshop
is highly interactive and uses case studies to explore the key
topics in workforce planning. Given the impending changes in the
government sector, it is now or never for workforce planning.
The workshop will give insights about how effective
workforce planning supports the Agencys strategic
direction and helps to maximise the impact of HR action.
Gaining executive support developing buy-in and ensuring
that it is not seen solely as the domain of HR
Making a difference identifying and working on the areas that
have the greatest impact
Building resilience ensuring that workforce planning thrives,
and does not become the latest fad
Facilitated by:
Tony Wallace, Principal, Workforce Planning Australia
About the workshop leader: Tony is an experienced workforce
planning practitioner. His experience has been gained through
senior workforce planning roles in the Department of Defence,
and consulting engagements with public, private and non-for-profit
organisations. Tony is able to provide significant insights into the
art and science of workforce planning to help people understand
its importance and to develop processes and methods to support
the development and implementation of effective workforce plans.
Tony is a confident facilitator and is willing to share his knowledge
with others to enable them to enhance their strategic and workforce
planning capabilities.
5.00 Workshop ends closing remarks by the chairperson
Time and costs are crucial now, more than ever before within the Australian Government. The (new) economic scenario, ushering a wave of
budget cuts and drastic changes in the workforce as a result, has already had far reaching repercussions on multiple departments within
an organisation and for the stakeholders outside of it. It is precisely during such critical phases when certain departments assume pivotal
focus - for managing, contributing and securing an organisations standing. At such unpredictable times, Workforce Planning & Human
Resources is your answer. How best then, can it enable you to plan, adapt, create & forge ahead
Pricing Forum + Workshop

Standard $995 + GST
= $1094.50
Regi ster before the 15 August 2014, and recei ve $100 from
the cost to attend
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Forrest, Canberra, ACT 2603
Phone: 02 6295 3144
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Public Sector Human Resources 2014 - An active planning and transition guide
15 September 2014, Rydges Capital Hill, Canberra
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