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Agenda

 
Day One: Thursday 13th May 2010
| Day One | Day Two |
8.30
Registration and coffee
9.00
Speed networking session

Get to know your peers right from the start in this relaxed and informal speed networking session. Bring your business cards!

9.20
Opening remarks from the chair
Tania Davies, Manager Rail Careers, Rail Skills & Career Council
RAIL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT – COLLABORATIVELY DRIVING THE SOLUTION
9.30
ARA Presentation – Rail update
  • An overview of the rail industry in 2010
  • Understanding the changes and challenges ahead
  • The rail workforce into the future
Bryan Nye, CEO, Australasian Railway Association
10.00
PANEL DISCUSSION
Rail Skills and Career Council update
  • Insight into the projects and initiatives being undertaken by the rail industry in 2009/10
Tony Higgins, Human Resources Manager, WestNet Rail
Jenny McAuliffe, Human Resources Manager, ARTC
Ron Devitt, General Manager, RailCorp Training
Brian Appleby, Executive Director People, Public Transport Authority WA
Jenny Kelman, General Manager Human Resources, V/Line Passenger
10.55
Morning tea
WORKFORCE PLANNING
11.20
Strategic workforce planning solutions
  • Analysing workforce demographics and how it relates to rail
  • Rail workforce trends
  • Workforce planning in a service and project-driven world
Robin Shreeve, CEO, Skills Australia
12.05
CASE STUDY
Redesigning work for an ageing society
  • Understanding the Work Ability framework
  • Possible future applications of the model to the Australian rail workforce
  • Evaluating workability factors and the extent to which they can be increased and sustained
Elizabeth Brooke, Director of Research, Swinburne University’s Business, Work and Ageing Centre for Research
12.50
Lunch
ATTRACTION AND INDUSTRY IMAGE
1.50
Attracting talent to the rail industry
  • Strategies to attract the best talent. What works well and what are the lessons looking forward?
  • Branding rail to attract qualified applicants
Tony Wiggins, Convener of the Australian Human Resources Institute’s Brisbane Recruitment and Retention Group, and HR Manager for QLD Health
CULTURE, EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND RETENTION
2.35
Retaining talented employees through improved engagement
  • How culture works to encourage or discourage engagement and productivity
  • An update on strategies being used to create cultural change and employee engagement
  • Best methods of ensuring employee loyalty, not just their compliance
  • Making retirees a part of the plan – workplace policies to retain retirement aged employees
  • Workforce development to keep employees engaged
Dr Amanda Gudmundsson, Director of Graduate Studies, Queensland University of Technology
3.20
Afternoon tea
3.40
CASE STUDY
PTA Better Workplace Project and improved engagement
Brian Appleby, Executive Director People, Public Transport Authority WA
4.25
PANEL DISCUSSION Attraction, development and retention of staff from the perspective of current employees
  • What attracted rail’s new recruits to the industry?
  • What keeps rail employees within the rail industry for the long term?
  • Understanding what it is employees want out of their career or job
Facilitated by Danny Broad, Executive General Manager - Freight Services, Downer EDI
5.10
End of day one
 
Day Two: Friday 14th May 2010
| Day One | Day Two |
8.30
Registration and coffee
8.50
Opening remarks from the chair
CAREER PATHWAYS
9.00
Developing talent by strengthening career pathways
  • Developing career pathway programs to strengthen the rail workforce
  • Targeting skills shortages by developing current employees
  • How an effective strategy can work to attract, develop, engage and retain your workforce
  • What models can be utilised by the rail industry to develop career pathway information?
Ian McMillan, Executive Officer, Transport & Distribution Training, Victoria
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
9.45
Developing consistent national skills and capability for rail
  • Developing talent pipelines
  • Developing capability
  • Who is responsible?
Ron Devitt, General Manager, RailCorp Training
Vicki Leaver, Manager Capability Development, RailCorp
10.30
CASE STUDY
Victorian Education and Training Committee’s inquiry into skills shortages in the rail industry
Peter Thomson, Senior Project Manager, Department of Transport VIC
11.00
Morning tea
IMMIGRATION
11.20
Skilled migration for the rail industry
  • Identifying the issues
  • Offshore and onshore recruitment
  • An overview of industry case studies
Dr Ros Cameron, Lecturer, School of Commerce and Management, Southern Cross University
Dr Deborah Joyce, Research Associate, Skilled Migration Project, Southern Cross University
SUCCESSION PLANNING AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
12.05
Ensuring the knowledge of rail’s retiring workforce is passed on to the next generation
  • What is succession planning and knowledge management?
  • What methods of capturing and formalising the knowledge of retiring staff to develop the incoming workforce are currently being used and are they working effectively?
  • How to practically transfer knowledge and motivate the retiring generation to part with their knowledge
Tony Higgins, Human Resources Manager, WestNet Rail
12.50
Lunch
FLEXIBILITY AND INNOVATION
1.50
Creating a more flexible workplace
  • Understanding the new Modern Award for the Rail Industry and the Fair Work Act 2009 and how they will impact the rail workforce
James Simpson, Senior Associate, Clayton Utz
STRATEGIES USED IN OTHER INDUSTRIES
2.35
CASE STUDY
Resourcing and skills development in a project-by-project world
Senior representative, Novo Rail Alliance
3.05
CASE STUDY
AustRoads National Skills Marketing Plan
Peter Mitchem, Chairman, Capability Task Force, AustRoads
3.35
Closing remarks from the chair
3.40
End of Conference
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