It’s been another great week of feedback on our Operating Plan 2020-2024 via our digital engagement platform, with 1000 staff now participating. We’ve had a total of 70 ideas contributed now, with 120 comments and 900 votes on them.
Have your say on these ideas or contribute your own now.
Ideas are flowing: Finance staff have shown strong engagement with the Operating Plan, with Chief Financial Officer Robin Payne hosting a staff morning tea and a finance leaders meeting last week to introduce the operating plan and discuss potential ideas to be shared on the digital platform.
Ideas already contributed by finance staff include finance Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), the potential co-location of central services, and moving cash expenses onto Concur.
Here are the top five ideas for each of the Plan’s five key focus areas at the moment:
Students first
- Genuinely Understanding Students’ Needs
- MQ welcome ceremony for new students
- Elevate Student Experience to a whole of University priority
- Investing in User Experience to Understand the Student Journey
- Use technology to enhance interaction in lectures, not to replace coming to the lecture
Coursework suite and delivery
- Industry involvement in course design
- Assurance of Learning at the end of a course that is comprehensive and resourced
- Recognition of Course Coordinators
- Market Research for New Courses
- One unit, one purpose
Focused investment in research
- Role of Philanthropy
- Picking “winners”, learning from our successes and our misses
- PhD scholarship accessibility
- Rethinking the MRES
- Computational and Data Intensive Research Strategy
Our people
- Professional staff – internal job shadowing program
- Future Leaders Program For Professional staff
- Collaboration across professional staff
- Professional staff development- ATEM membership
- Culture eats strategy for breakfast
Ways of working
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