Our Human Resource team and Information Services team developed an online orientation package which was nominated for a category in this year's Chief Ministers awards. We didn't win, but we were a finalist which means we came second or third as they don't distinguish between the two. Maybe the saying that nobody remembers who came second could be rolled out, but personally it was wonderful that the program was nominated and then made into the final three.

For awards like this, teams have to be nominated. Without nominators and endorsers, there would be no nomination and no chance to share publically what your agency is doing to make a difference.

This award event gave us a chance to demonstrate to all government agencies what we are doing with an online package delivered via our Learning Management System. This was definitely not to show off, but to share. I have always been and advocate of cross agency sharing and even if one agency contacts us to find out the details of how we developed it, then we have added value to the collective NT Government.

The fact that the awards were held on the evening that the President of the United States briefly visited Darwin added an additional sense of excitement to the event.

So rather than blather on about presidents and awards... what was the "value proposition" of our orientation package?

  • We created it in PowerPoint - everyone has PowerPoint, everyone can view it, deliver it and edit it in PowerPoint. That means updating and sharing the basic product is easy.
  • We designed it as a visual dashboard that provided a reasonably time resistant overview of each division, but linked to more detail on the Intranet and Internet where policies may change and more up to date content lives in the place we call the "single source of truth" - This means less updating of the package.
  • We transformed the PowerPoint into an Articulate package with quizzes and then put it into our Learning Management System - Moodle. This meant we knew who had attempted the course and how they had gone.
  • It was all developed internally and by recording our senior management we were able to vitually get them face to face with new staff regardless of where they work in our Northern Territory.

After we developed it we offered the PowerPoint and a place in our Learning Management System for other agencies to experiment with this form of delivery which some have taken us up on.

DET Orientation

Thank you to Kerry, Carol and Marcia plus all the folks who contributed content and arranged meetings to carry out recordings.

 

 

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