Public Sector

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TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT

• Public Sector
• Performance Reporting
• March 1, 2006

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Introduction

• Public Sector Performance Reporting
• IPAC networking dialogue
• Exchanging knowledge / promoting education
• Literature such as New Directions No. 16/ and
  Citizens First 4.

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Trends
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Trends

• More accountability through performance
  indicators outcomes / deliverables
• Here to stay
• Gomery Report Restoring Accountability

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Trends (Cont)

• Federal Conservative Party Platform
• The first piece of legislation - Federal
  Accountability Act will complement Gomery
  Report
• Strengthen auditing and accountability within
  departments

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Trends (Cont)

• New Brunswick State of the Province Address
• 4th progress report under our Prosperity Plan
  released
• believe in accountability
• can see what more we need to do
• 5 goals in 5 key areas education, jobs,
  wellness, the environment, and inclusion.

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Greater Opportunity

• New Brunswicks Prosperity Plan 2002-2012
• 4 Building Blocks
• Investing in People
• Creating a Competitive Fiscal and Business
  Environment
• Embracing Innovation
• Building Strategic Infrastructure

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NBs Prosperity Plan (Cont)

• To achieve prosperity, we must target
  prosperity
• Ten-Year Prosperity Targets
• Economic prosperity
• Employment prosperity
• Income prosperity

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NBs Prosperity Plan (Cont)

• Ten-Year Competitive Targets
• Innovation
• Productivity
• Export Orientation

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Report Card NB Prosperity Plan

• Each year the government releases a report card
  Progress on Prosperity
• i.e. Employment Prosperity - NB will increase
  its employment per working age population ratio
  (expressed in relation to national average) by 5
  percentage points to reach or exceed 95 of
  Canadian average by 2012
• Report Card released in February 2005 showed
  increase from 55.4 in 2000 to 56.8 in 2003,
  rising from 90.4 of national average in 2000 to
  91 in 2003.

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NBs Prosperity Plan (Cont)

• TED is a key contributor to the Prosperity Plans
  success.
• Lead on Investing in People (IIP) Building Block.
• Strategic Goal New Brunswick has an educated,
  well-trained, skilled and adaptable labour force
  supported by culture of life-long learning.

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NBs Prosperity Plan (Cont)

• IIP - 4 cornerstones
• Quality Learning Agenda
• Skills training and Retraining
• Recruitment, Retention and Repatriation
• Reducing Barriers to Work

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TEDs Strategic Framework 2002-2012

• Supports and describes our context relative to
  the Prosperity Plan.
• Contains our vision, mission, values and
  operating principles.
• Describes critical challenges we must face in
  order to meet the goals of the Prosperity Plan.

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Strategic Plan 2002-2004

• Strategic Plan 2002-2004 is companion document to
  TEDs Strategic Framework
• Outlines the strategic actions and their
  activities to focus our activities on our
  contribution to New Brunswicks Prosperity Plan.

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Strategic Plan 2005-2008

• The Strategic Plan, 2005-2008, builds on our
  previous plan to provide greater prosperity for
  New Brunswickers.
• Reflects improvements over the last plan
• more clearly focused strategic directions.
• enhanced accountability through performance
  indicators that measure how well we are achieving
  the strategic goals and objectives of our
  programs and services.

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Strategic Plan 2005-2008

• Performance of these actions will be guided by
  the vision, mission, values and operating
  principles established in our Strategic Framework
  for Action, 2002-2012.

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Example of Performance Indicator

• Goal - To increase access to and success in
  adult education and training.
• Performance Indicators
• An increase in the number of adult learners
  taking literacy training for the first time.
• An increase in the percentage of adult learners
  who improve their literacy skills by a full or
  partial grade level over the course of a program.
• An increase in the number of the Departments
  on-line adult learning products.
• An increase in the number of persons who
  successfully complete New Brunswick Community
  Colleges or Apprenticeship and Occupational
  Certification programs.

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One Step Further

• In 2005, further reflecting our commitment to
  enhance accountability, performance indicators
  linked to objectives, were established for all
  Divisions / Branches / programs.
• Inclusion of indicators identified in the
  Departments Strategic Plan 2005-2008.

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Monitoring and Reporting

• Each Fall, the Strategic Planning and
  Departmental Coordination Branch will prepare a
  report on our program and service performance.
• It will include suggestions for senior
  managements consideration for new or revised
  objectives and indicators as appropriate .

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Monitoring and Reporting

• Key achievements of the program and service
  targets for the previous fiscal year will be
  published in the Departments Annual Report.
• Also report through Public Accounts.

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