2016-11-14 General Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                                            8 NOVEMBER 2016


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                            RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                              CURRENT PRIORITIES                            THE NEXT QUARTER
                                                  Noosa District State High School and
                                                  Noosa Pengari Steiner School.

Develop an approach and methodology for         WFP pilots being conducted in the            Undertake and evaluate WFP pilot              Deliver   WFP       across  Council
WFP tailored to the needs of council              Records and Civil Operations                   project.                                        Branches     with HR facilitating
                                                  branches.                                    Develop        corporate  framework             sessions with all branches.
                                                                                                 incorporating the learnings form the
                                                                                                 pilot project.

Develop       and      co-ordinate     the      Implementation        of    skills  and      Continue to support users           and       Use the modules capability to inform
implementation of HR T1 Modules - Skills          qualification self-service modules T1.         address systems issues.                         training practices, workforce planning
and Qualifications, performance appraisal.      Implementation        of   performance                                                         and project delivery.
                                                  appraisal system.
                                                PA      system      training     material
                                                  developed and coaching sessions
                                                  delivered to all users.

Recruitment and induction of new staff          54 positions have been recruited               Ensure the new staff are inducted           Continued HR support new staff and
                                                  since 01 July 2016 as a result of new            well into Council and supported               their supervisors.
                                                  approved positions, retirements and              through their probationary periods.         Continue to improve the induction
                                                  resignations.                                  Monthly review of the corporate               process.
                                                Design of specific and innovative                induction    process    incorporating
                                                  recruitment strategies for each                  feedback from participants and
                                                  position.                                        managers.

HR organisational metrics                       HR have provided the Leadership                Coordination of a project that              Use the benchmarking and workforce
                                                  Team with 50 workforce metrics to                involves comparison of the 50                 metrics to determine the future HR
                                                  enable more informed decision                    workforce metrics of seven (7) similar        strategies for Noosa Council.
                                                  making and risk assessment.                      Councils from SEQ.


Develop and implement management/             Two follow up sessions have been                 Each participant is required to             There are 3 more follow up sessions
leadership development program aimed at         delivered focusing on behaviours that              consciously      monitor      their           planned for the next 6 months as the
delivering ‘high potential’ leadership          demonstrate the desired leadership                 improvement in the elements of the            LPI program is completed.
                                                practices.                                         LIP program.




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