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
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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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