Skills Australia
Using Skills Productively Conference
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- Conference overview
- Full program booklet for Conference
- Main program speakers presentations
- Sponsors of Conference
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Conference overview
- Develop a shared agenda and recognition of the challenges and benefits of enhanced skills utilisation
- Influence Government policy to achieve balance between skills supply and skills use
- Enterprises better able to adopt longer term acquisition, development and utilisation strategies
- Education/skills providers balance course delivery with partnering and skills development, responding to enterprise needs
Skills Australia’s conference Using Skills Productively was held on Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 September 2010 at The Hilton Hotel in Sydney.
It was a highly informative event attended by over 300 enthusiastic delegates including industry leaders, business executives, professional associations, members of Industry Skills Councils and Advisory Boards, employers, education and training providers, HR professionals and representatives from government.
The conference outcomes were:
Main program speakers presentations
Day one – Monday 6th September 2010
High Performance Working
| Skills – The Critical Issue for Australia | Philip Bullock, Chair, Skills Australia |
(PDF 704KB | RTF 106KB) |
| Building and Using Skills Successfully | Heather Ridout Chief Executive, Australian Industry Group |
(PDF 138KB | RTF 83KB) |
| What’s in it for workers? (No Presentation) |
Ged Kearney, President, Australian Council of Trade Unions |
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| Ahead of the Game: Blueprint for the reform of the Public Service
(No presentation) |
Stephen Sedgwick, Commissioner, Australian Public Service Commission |
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| Management matters in Australia | Professor Roy Green
Dean, Faculty of Business University of Technology Sydney |
(PDF 999KB | RTF 126KB) |
| Enterprise Capability – skills use in context | Steve Vamos, President, Society for Knowledge Economics |
(PDF 164KB | RTF 138KB) |
Day two – Tuesday 7th September 2010
Productivity and Partnerships
| Day two - Welcome & Introduction | Robin Shreeve CEO, Skills Australia |
(PDF 384KB | RTF 58KB) |
| Targeted Workforce Capability Programs to Boost Future Enterprise Capacity
(No presentation) |
Karen Lonergan Executive Manager, Performance & Culture Qantas |
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| Developing World Class Employment and Skills: An International perspective | Lesley Giles Deputy Director Research and Policy UK Commission for Employment and Skills |
(PDF 714KB | RTF 155KB) |
| Cluster-based approaches: The benefits of partnership | Dr John Buchanan Director, Workplace Research Centre University of Sydney |
(PDF 194KB | RTF 99KB) |
| Skills use in SMEs | Peter Anderson Chief Executive Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry |
(PDF 325KB | RTF 97KB) |
