Developing Australia's VET workforce to
implement the national training system
New Ways of Working in VET Forum 4 - November 2007
This lively and interactive national forum showcased how VET organisations are implementing the national training system in 2007 and enhancing our human capital. The forum provided an opportunity to network with VET practitioners from around Australia and encouraged fresh thinking about innovation, flexibility and responsiveness in the VET system.
Keynote speakers
Professor Victor Callan
Professor of Management, University of Queensland Business School
New Ways of Developing Managers and Leaders
As an organisational researcher and management consultant, Victor has expertise in the fields of organisational behaviour, change management and human resource management and has published several books and a large number of international research reports and journal articles. He is among Australila's most cited researchers in management. Victor is working with senior executives and managers in a large range of Australian and New Zealand private and public sector organisations, completing consultancies on leadership development, organisational change and program evaluation.
In the VET sector, over the last five years he has completed National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) funded reports on the capabilities required of VET leaders and managers, generic skills, the nature of innovative VET organisations, strategies for management and leadership development and the responses to skills shortages. In addition, he has completed consultancies for VET organisations in various states.
Viv Read
Crosstech Pty Ltd
Relationships that Work
Viv has been actively involved in organisational transformation and renewal provesses for three decades as a contingent and portfolio worker.