Budget 2003 -- Government of British Columbia.
         
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• Minister's Letter  
• Accountability Statement  
• Introduction  
• Strategic Context  
• Ministry Overview  
• Highlights of Changes from Previous Plans  
• Planning Context  
• Ministry Goals and Core Business Areas  
• Objectives, Strategies, Performance Measures and Targets  
• Consistency with Government's Strategic Plan  
• Resource Summary  
• Summary of Related Planning Processes  
• Our Employee Learning Strategy  
• Appendix 1 — Summary of Performance Measures  

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2003/04 – 2005/06 SERVICE PLAN
Ministry of Education

Our Employee Learning Strategy

Goal Objectives and Strategies
1. Leadership in a Learning Organization • Develop leadership criteria, provide appropriate development opportunities to support criteria
• Adapt development opportunities to constituent groups
• Identify staff roles and responsibilities in context of new culture
• Develop continuous improvement through coaching, mentoring and ongoing staff development activities
• Ensure understanding of the linkage of each job to government and ministry and department service goals and objectives
• Develop a long term succession plan based on leadership criteria and relevant training, including staff participation in government’s Leadership and Management Development program, “Leading the Way”
2. Employee Performance and Learning • Adopt core competencies for all staff positions
• Clearly identify staff who show aptitude for interest in leadership
• Develop growth-oriented performance plans with ministry staff that include career portfolios (EPDP)
3. Flexible and Motivating Work Environment • Provide staff with the tools to effectively manage time and resources
• Promote a culture that values and respects staff and encourages balance
4. Learning and Innovative Organization • Develop effective learning plans, to prepare training needs assessment and to provide staff with increased access to personal and professional development and training activities
• Investigate opportunities for interaction with the field
• Encourage interaction with the field
• Investigate how to facilitate and encourage staff secondments within ministry, government, outside the BC Public Service (e.g., School districts; public sector)
• Develop and successfully implement innovative business practices and profile these practices across the ministry
• Encourage staff to take reasonable risks, to learn to manage within changing environment and to be responsive to changing needs of clients
5. Engaging Staff • Engage ministry staff in the implementation of the Ministry Human Resource Plan
• Communicate regular and timely, including interim communication across all levels the organization
• Design ongoing feedback mechanisms for staff
• Implement the Ministry Human Resource Plan and develop implementation teams for this purpose
• Report regularly on progress of achieving ministry goals
• Establish a protocol for ministry staff to monitor the success of the Ministry Human Resource Plan
6. Progressive Employee/ Employer Relations • Provide orientation/training opportunities to ministry staff regarding the provisions of collective agreements and terms and conditions of employment
• Maintain ministry support for Article 29 committee, through regular attendance at meetings, maintenance and communication of meeting minutes, timely follow-thru on action item commitments, etc.

 

 
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