RSTAQ
Planning Day – 1 February 2003
Individual Objectives
for the Day
- Airing of Issues
- Efficiency
- Future Direction
- Clarifying Purpose
- Goals
- Strategies –
paths forward
- Sharing the Load
- Realism in Goals
- Harmony
- Communication
Rules for the
Day
- Team NOT Individuals
- No Put Downs
- Constructive
- Solutions
- Respect
Summary of Strengths
and Weaknesses
Team 1
Strengths
- Expertise of
members – willingness to meet needs of others
- RSTAQ more visible
- Commitment
- Advocacy of Role
to Ed QLD, QTU, JCTU
- Links – spread
the word
- Opportunity to
get together to share ideas, frustrations, hopes. To be able to assist
the LS fraternity to move forward.
- Training
- Networking
Systemic leadership support
- Sharing of information
and issues – support
- Informal sharing
– PD
- Longevity – RSTAQ
continues
- RSTAQ is a forum
(not an aginem) for ST to have a voice for department
- Primary and Secondary
able to work together
- Quarterly – quality
excellent
- Web site
- Conferences
Weaknesses
- Reach wider audience
– members and others
- Collecting concerns
to improve advocacy
- Inability to
engage large membership
- Take things too
personally
- Accept others
personal commitments and shortcomings
Opportunities
- Re-conceptualisation
of role across primary and secondary (STLDs etc)
- Web site expanded
- Committee roles
re-conceptualised
- Chair meetings
– rotate
- Learning
- Devolution
of work
- Time issues
- Use of electronic
media
- Quarterly – half
yearly
- Publications
- Conferences
- Maximise meeting
time
- Agenda
- Social occasion
- T’chair within
meeting
- Know when
to shut up
- Teaming
Team 2
Strengths
- Good intent of
the group
- Generally cohesive
- Knowledge, skills
of members good/v good
- Quarterly very
professional, high standard – widely respected
- Knowing our history
– "our story" – our "characters"
- Web presence
- External/public
awareness of RSTAQ
- Ed QLD links
and power holders recently
Weaknesses
- Not enough people
- We don’t give
"value for money"
- Probably not
relevant to STLD in isolated/remote areas of QLD
- Distance between
committee member’s homes …. Hard to get together
- Not enough use
of sub-committees – small groups of people are carrying an extra load
- Committee meetings
– structure of, format, etc
Opportunities
- Change format
of monthly meeting
- Ed QLD is re-morphing
so we may be able to influence some issues/etc
- Use of electronic
communication – distances, time overcome
- To attract more
members eg actively recruit
- PD days in
regional areas
- Timeframing
events – 3 year plan
Threats
- We limit our
thinking/planning to 12 months only – should it be longer?!
- Atmosphere under
which we work – degree of uncertainty Department flux at present
Consolidation
of Thoughts (Perhaps the Key Result Areas for consideration in future
Planning)
- Re-conceptualisation
of roles/advocacy
- Committee
- Meetings
- Structure
– Responsibilities, Sharing, Strategies
- Planning
- Publications
- Professional
Development
- Conferences
- In services
- Informal
gatherings
- Membership
Actions
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Action
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By
Whom
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By
When
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Key
Performance Indicator
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Summary of the
points of today’s session
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Rob
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6 Feb
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Summary presented
to Jennie
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Outcomes tables
to AGM/Monthly meeting
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Jennie
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22 Feb
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Outcomes tabled
to members
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Decide on path
forward for Planning
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New Committee
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1 Mar
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Date set for
future planning
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Rob’s Comments
for the Next Steps
You may wish to
consider some more work on the way forward. In determining how this
is done, you could take several approaches. However, simplicity is perhaps
the best way.
If you agree that
the five outcomes are the agreed way forward, you should confirm/develop
your Vision and Mission statements. Following this, you should develop
a "Strategy on a Page" This can be done by focusing on what
you define as your Key Result Areas and then work as sub-groups (for
each area) to propose the way forward for the team. An approach to consider
here is that the President and Vice President do not belong to these
sub-committees but maintain a "Global" view, oversighting
the work of the teams. In developing this, a table such as the one below
is worth considering.
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Key
Result Area
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Objectives
(or Strategies)
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Actions
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Responsibility
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Action
Date
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Performance
Indicator
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Re-conceptualisation
of roles/advocacy
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There may be
a number of these
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Actions for
each objective
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Who is responsible
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Realistic dates
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How do we know
if we’ve been successful?
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Committee
- Meetings
- Structure
– Responsibilities Sharing, Strategies
- Planning
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Publications
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