Professional Development Plan HESTA

Please make sure you answer the questions in detail and make sure you backup the answer with enough sources. Please take as much as information from the annual report of HESTA and the assignments case study. https://www.hesta.com.au/members.html

HESTA is passionate about supporting employees to continue their personal and professional growth. The industry super fund knows that supporting learning and development is integral to ensuring employees are equipped with the most up-to-date knowledge and the skills required to be leaders within their individual roles.

Superannuation is a complex industry and as such the learning and professional development requirements include a combination of compliance, professional development, soft and interpersonal skills training and CPD all in play, ensuring that you can keep on top of everything can be a challenge.

The Company

HESTA is the industry super fund in Australia when it comes to health and community services. They are well established as the largest super fund dedicated to this sector, and have a history of strong, long-term returns. They are committed to improving the retirement outcomes of their members so that they may live comfortably when they retire.

Commitment to providing benefits that their members want, and allowing members take control of their future with quality education and advice about super has allowed them to gain the trust of their members and keep their services relevant to their needs.

The Challenge

Like many organisations, HESTA have conducted their training, whether they be face-to-face or virtually, with attendance being recorded in Microsoft Excel. The sessions were about keeping up-to-date with industry knowledge, internal processes or skill development, but there is no central place to see all the learning available, access online learning or report on all the learning happening across the organisation.

The team are manually tracking internal training, however, if a team member went to an external training program not run by HESTA, it was up to the employee to keep their own records, and visibility of all learning happening across the organisation was stored in multiple locations. Having a large portion of their team working remotely, this is proving to be challenging and with the organisation expecting to increase their workforce in the coming years, it was important to have oversight of learning holistically.

After a deep review of their learning and compliance practices, the HESTA team has made a decision to take a different approach on how they provided and managed learning so that they could improve the delivery and tracking of learning material across the organisation.

Having a scalable solution is a key priority and HESTA has started to review several training platforms, and reflecting on her past experience with usability from both an administrator and users perspective, HESTA’s Capability Consultant, Renee McCoy is looking into the pain points and what they need in the future.

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You have been hired as a new Training Manager of HESTA to improve the professional development within the organisation. Lisa Samuels is the Marketing Strategy Executive. Your first task is to work with her and create a Professional Development Plan for the Marketing Team Leader Helen Brown.

Helen is 32 years old single mother who emigrated from Canada with her family 4 years ago and she has been working full time at HESTA for six months. She is a valued member of the team. She has excellent experience from her previous work at a Marketing agency in Ontario. For the last three months she has been very stressed because her 5 years old son has started at primary school and she has been unable to find a suitable after school care for him.  Secondly, some of the people in her team have been unhappy as they believed that they deserved the Team Leader positon. So leading a team of very experienced professionals is also proving a challenge for Helen.

Design a Professional Development Plan for Helen Brown for short term as well long term.  You will present the Plan to Helen as well as to the Marketing Strategy Executive, Lisa.

Detailed requirements and direction

Presentation

1. You must prepare a 10 minutes presentation that summarises all the major sections of your Professional Development Plan. Therefore, you can complete this task only after you have completed and handed in the Plan.
2. Please note the presentation will be recorded by your lecturer (i.e. videotaped) for the purpose of post-moderation. You are required to hand in all presentation visuals (e.g. poster, slideshow, flipchart paper), as well as any props and handouts used in this presentation.
3. Your presentation is an individual presentation, i.e. no group presentation is allowed
4. You must hand your presentation material to your lecturer at least one day before the presentation.
5. You need to prepare presentation visuals that guide and lead your presentation. Please note:
   1. Visuals must support your presentation and should not distract from your presentation (e.g. too crowded, illustrations that are not linked to the content)
   2. Visuals must be of high quality (e.g. free of grammar and spelling errors). Good visuals will have a combination of words and graphics
   3. While MS PowerPoint slides are very popular, please remember they are not the only visuals available
   4. Please use handouts as you see fit
6. Please ensure you speak in a clear and concise manner and engage with your audience
7. You may use presentation notes to support your presentation but please ensure you do not read of such notes. Your notes should be a backup only in case you get stuck, or in case you need to cite data that is difficult to remember (e.g. statistics/data).
8. Please refer to the marking guide for more detailed information concerning the presentation task.

1)Identify at least Four personal goals of Helen?

Helen personal goal is become a successful manger in this new company and will need to proof others member that she the right candidate for this position.

Personal goal for Helen will be to have a good communicate with the other members this will help her to get closer to other members Therefore Helen will be able to have a good relationship with other team members.

2) Identify HESTA’S purpose and vision?

Purpose website

The purpose of Helen is to make a real difference to the financial future of every member.

Vision Web site

The vision of Hesta is to Be the super fund for Australian health and community services and prepare and empower our members for wellbeing in retirement.

3)Evaluate to what extent Helen’s personal goals align with HESTA’s purposes and vison?

Helen’s personal goals and vision is are similar to purpose and vision of the company for example Helen’s and Hesta’s are similar as Helen personal goal is to be successful manger and if she does good in financial, she could have a better pay. Helens and Hesta’s have similar vision as her personal goal is to become a successful manger