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Focus area: Connection

Our goal

Work together as a connected workforce with shared purpose to deliver excellence in customer service.

Action

Engage and connect with our employees on our strategic priorities.

Our key activities

  • Ensure employee achievement and development plans are linked to team objectives and organisational priorities
  • Communicate strategic direction and priorities regularly through various channels
  • Cascade strategic updates regularly through leadership forums
  • Promote success stories that showcase how individual work contributes to strategic priorities

Our measures

  • Percentage of Achievement and Development Plans completion
  • Improved Working for Queensland survey results for contribution to strategic objectives

Action

Engage employees across the employee lifecycle from attraction and onboarding to performance and contribution.

Our key activities

  • Build early engagement through a people-centred experience across attraction, recruitment and onboarding
  • Strengthen onboarding and induction experiences to support connection, clarity, and alignment from day one
  • Promote visible leadership to build engagement and connect employees to shared purpose
  • Ensure communication and engagement practices are inclusive and timely

Our measures

  • Improved Working for Queensland results for employee engagement
  • Measure candidate experience through recruitment and onboarding surveys
  • Benchmark and measure attrition rates, including by role segments

Action

Strengthen collaboration and engagement across the department.

Our key activities

  • Support leaders to embed work practices that promote collaboration, engagement and knowledge sharing within and across teams
  • Facilitate cross-organisational networks (for example, Communities of Practices, lessons learnt workshops) and structured internal mobility opportunities (for example, short-term secondments, project-based assignment) to break down silos
  • Establish regular opportunities for employees to connect, share, and collaborate
  • Recognise and celebrate contributions to whole-of-department initiatives and shared goals

Our measures

  • Improved Working for Queensland results for employee engagement
  • Participation rates in activities such as Communities of Practice and internal mobility programs
  • Benchmark and measure engagement with recognition initiatives and internal communication channels used to recognise and celebrate collaboration