This strategic direction focuses on the importance of providing a supportive and empowering environment where students and staff can realise their potential and aspire to their own greatness - feeling supported, valued, safe, and celebrated.

Key Performance Objectives (KPOs)

• Relevant and valued support services for students and staff
• Leading Work Health and Safety (WHS) performance
• Employer of choice

Key Priorities

• Access to mental health and wellbeing support
• Enhanced support services for students and staff
• A welcoming and supportive culture where people feel like they belong
• Work Health and Safety (WHS) systems, programs, education, and behaviours embedded into working and learning environments
• Greater career pathways and engagement

What we will be known for

Through our empathy, support, and genuine care, Wodonga TAFE is a safe learning and teaching environment where everyone can be their authentic selves, every day.

Our staff, students, and partners must have a nurturing and safe experience with Wodonga TAFE, underpinned by enhanced and relevant support services.

We foster an environment that encourages positive relationships, security, belonging, and respect, enabling individuals to actively engage in their pursuits and realise their potential.

We have cohesive, welcoming, and supportive learning and working environments.

What this means for our stakeholders

• We provide a safe, empathetic, and supportive environment that is reinforced by our culture, processes, and accessible services.
• A nurtured sense of belonging to a like-minded community, seeking inspiration and fulfilment.
• Our staff and students have access to holistic support services.
• We have the relevant tools, systems, and knowledge to create healthy environments and reduce risk.
• Enhanced opportunities for people to realise their potential.

This strategic direction focuses on embedding future-focused learning in everything we do. We provide accessible skills of the future, encompassed by forward-thinking practices, innovation, and technology.

Key Performance Objectives (KPOs)

• Expanded models of learning delivery
• Leading student satisfaction outcomes
• Connecting students to industry

Key Priorities

• Develop engaging blended learning options 
• Enhance learner experience
• Identify emerging skills including clean economy
• Future skills mapping

What we will be known for

Our learning and delivery models will be modern and accessible - enabling new, intuitive, and preferred ways people choose to engage with education.

Our engagements are enhanced and expanded, ensuring to identify and address emerging skills, and that future education and employment needs are supported.

We have aligned industry pathways, and enhanced student satisfaction and outcomes through our teaching, support, accessibility, and innovations.

Through an enhanced learning journey our students will be empowered to realise their potential, providing greater opportunities to ultimately develop better-prepared graduates.

 What this means for our stakeholders

• We provide training and support that evolves ahead of the needs of our stakeholders, building future-aligned learners who are better-connected and prepared for industry.
• Our learning resources, delivery models, and teaching are supported by professional development, and improved systems and tools.
• By enhancing technology and future-focused learning, it enables increased student audiences and engagement, and creates future training opportunities in expanded industry sectors.
• Our innovative training and engagements lead to real outcomes with real futures, enhancing student, staff, and industry satisfaction.

This strategic direction focuses on utilising technology, innovation, data, and analytics and reporting, to enhance learning journeys, while growing our operational capability to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency in decision making.

Key Performance Objectives (KPOs)

• Tech-enabled learning environments
• Data-driven decision making
• Responsible AI integration into service delivery

Key Priorities

• IT systems integration
• Online course delivery
• Analytic infrastructure and tools development
• Governance and data alignment
• AI integration

What we will be known for

Employing data-driven and tech-enriched business expertise and decisions, our offerings and services will be elevated.

Our modern learning and service tools and environments will ensure engagement with our stakeholders will be intuitive, seamless, and accessible - putting customer needs first.

The experience of our students will be innovative, consistent, and high-quality, to enhance their learning and engagement journeys.

We focus on technology and how it can support embedding skills innovation, responsible AI usage, and tech industry collaboration - leading to growth and success.

What this means for our stakeholders

• We are efficient and effective, and have enhanced responsiveness to the needs of our stakeholders.
• Engaging with us in all capacities is accessible, intuitive, and high-quality.
• Our graduates have enhanced capability and are at the forefront of technology in their relevant fields. They are future-ready.
• Our environments are modern and innovative, fostering aspirations and supporting success.
• Our decisions are evidence-based, clear, and transparent, driven by expert data and analysis.
• We engage with technology industries to develop relationships and enhance futures.

This strategic direction focuses on being a leader through collaboration, where we strategically utilise our expertise, resources, and capabilities, to create shared benefits for our organisation and our partners. We plan, invest, and grow with diversification, collaboration, sustainability, and social responsibility at the fore.

Key Performance Objectives (KPOs)

• Diversified revenue portfolio aligned to vision 
• Enhance public delivery by strategic utilisation of Fee For Service (FFS) activity
• Purposeful strategic investments 

Key Priorities

• Environmentally and socially responsible 
• Proactive and purposeful partnerships 
• Growth in fee for service activity
• Diversification in revenue generating activity
• Skills mapping and development programs
• Change management and workforce engagement

What we will be known for

We lead by example, and are renown as an exemplar organisation.

We are ambitious and deliberate in our strategic activities, and create growth and positive change for our stakeholders.

We focus on continual evolution and improvement in all aspects of our organisation.

We collaborate with our partners and communities to work towards common goals, and enable them to leverage our standing, capacity, and capabilities, to realise shared benefits.

We are a financially and environmentally sustainable organisation.

What this means for our stakeholders

• We are a leader in strategic partnering, and grow our fee for service activity to support and enhance public training.
• We create avenues for partners to engage with us and utilise our capabilities to realise shared benefits, and gain access to a national and global audience.
• Our services, facilities, equipment, and learning environments are enhanced and modern. 
• We continue to expand our areas of interest, driving revenue diversification, and meeting the needs of our skills economies.
• We provide our staff with the environment, structures, and pathways to enhance their own development and to fulfil their ambitions.

This strategic direction focuses on our people and the integral contribution they make to our organisation and our stakeholders. Our workforce culture fosters ambition and aspiration, and we are committed to developing our staff to recognise and realise their potential.

Key Performance Objectives (KPOs)

• High-performing talent management programs
• Develop workforce skills and capabilities
• High-functioning and performing culture

Key Priorities

• Optimise operating model
• Commitment to strategic objectives 
• Refocused professional development programs
• Leadership development and succession planning
• Cultural development and embedding values and operating principles across the organisation

What we will be known for

We are a capable and aligned workforce with a high-performing, engaged, and aspirational culture.

Our leaders model and operate with our values and principles at the fore, ensuring aligned operations and outcomes.

We focus on developing our staff through professional development and enhancing capabilities to meet future needs, leading to expansive career pathways and opportunities.

This develops a cohesive workforce, where everyone feels they can aspire to greatness and can fulfil their potential.

What this means for our stakeholders

• Our teachers and trainers are actively engaged with our learners, creating an enjoyable environment and learning experience.
• Our systems of engagement, learning, and business processes, are intuitive, transparent, and accessible. They are a positive experience, and simplify ways of working and learning.
• As a high-functioning learning partner, our stakeholders can expect our workforce to be engaged, clear, capable, efficient, and purposeful.
• Our staff are inspired and have clarity around organisational decisions. They have career pathways and opportunities, accessible through enhancing workforce capabilities, succession planning, and professional development and leadership programs.

This strategic direction focuses on sustaining and creating meaningful and strategic collaborations that enhance experiences and opportunities for our partners, staff, and students.

Key Performance Objectives (KPOs)

• Retain and expand existing partnerships
• Strategically grow local and national partnership portfolio
• Realise the potential of strategic and innovation assets

Key Priorities

• Develop partnership capabilities
• Streamline partner engagement function 
• Diversify partners and operating industries 
• Stand up Logic Innovation Precinct
• Develop public-facing partnership communications
• Expand National Technical Education Network (NTEN) footprint and capability

What we will be known for

We will be trusted by our partners to assist them in realising their potential, navigating complex environments, and by providing creative problem solving to meet their future needs.

Our culture enhances our engagement and collaboration with our partners, adding clear and proactive value to their operations.

We thrive in the complexities of our industries, specialising in educational partnerships to expand and enhance national offerings and services.

Our role within the Victorian TAFE network is proactive - leading or engaging in collaborative projects that realise benefits for the TAFE network as a whole.

What this means for our stakeholders

• Through purposeful partnerships, our students will have enhanced access to industry - creating learning and career pathways.
• Our learning facilities, equipment, and technologies will be aligned with industry, teaching, and learning needs.
• We have avenues for partners to access our national footprint and collaborative networks.
• Our workforce will realise the potential for increased investment opportunities, as well as career opportunities, as operations and partnerships expand.
• Our partners can expect high-quality and streamlined engagement, with advanced functions in reporting, complex problem solving, and capabilities.