Improve Workforce Development

Partnerships that support the capacity of employers to attract, retain and develop their workforce and the capacity of individuals to be productive in the workforce contribute to workforce development.

Workforce development embraces a range of elements critical to Tasmania’s future economic growth, including innovation, productivity, skills formation, workforce planning, job design and high performance workplaces.

Central features of Workforce Development are:

• businesses being better at attracting and retaining skilled labour:
• partnerships between businesses, between businesses and training organisations and between these and government;
• businesses taking leadership and ownership of skill formation, particularly in relation to upskilling their existing workforce;
• integration of workforce and business planning;
• promoting the links between skill formation, innovation, productivity and business success; and
• eliminating the waste of people’s potential to participate in local  business activity.

Skills Tasmania, in partnership with the Department of Economic Development and Tourism has developed a Workforce Development Plan. The Plan intends to increase the capacity of employers to attract, retain and develop their workforce; and to increase the capacity of individuals to participate and be productive in the workforce.
 

Skills Tasmania, along with the Department of Economic Development and Tourism, supports workforce development in a variety of ways. Access further information about workforce development generally on the Department of Economic Development and Tourism web site www.development.tas.gov.au People Directions is a long-term strategic framework to people and workforce management for Tasmania’s State Service workforce. People Directions is in effect a ‘blueprint’ for what the Tasmanian State Service workforce, as a whole needs to do, now and into the future to address immediate and longer term people and workforce management issues. It identifies and provides integrated and interdependent people management solutions and approaches for common people and workforce management issues faced across the State Service workforce as a whole, which are relevant at both whole-of-State Service and Agency levels.
		Di Edgerton, Managing Director, SERS Sheet-metal and Roofing Services “Attracting, retaining and training skilled people is essential for business productivity growth and success. Businesses that plan for workforce development are able to adapt more readily to changes within their industries and plan for better growth and sustainability making them a happy workplace and smarter business.”

Performance Measures & Targets:
 

Activity in this area:

• Workforce Development Plan (Skills Tasmania) (Word 27KB)
• Workforce Development (DEDT) 
• Apprenticeships for existing workers (Skills Tasmania)
• Disability Services Workforce Development Strategy (Health & Human Services)
• Keeping the Skills in the Workplace (Premier & Cabinet) 
• People – Directions for the Future (Premier & Cabinet)

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