Resources for implementing the strategic plan

As UTS staff, you play a vital role in owning our future. The resources available on this site can help you better understand the plan and how it relates to your faculty or unit and day-to-day work.

Resources for communicating the UTS Strategic Plan

• Presentations about the current Strategic Plan at the  UTS Senior Managers' Forum in late 2008
• Presentation on the UTS Model of Learning (ppt, 374Mb)
• Managers' Strategic Plan Communication Toolkit: to assist Managers and front line supervisors to engage their staff in the strategic plan. Templates, activities and worked examples are in the toolkit.

  Activities include:

  • Sample meeting agenda template (pdf): for a planning and goal setting meeting 
  • Reviewing the strategic plan (pdf): an activity that links the UTS vision to the team/unit/faculty and individual levels
  • UTS objectives brainstorm (pdf): staff will identify the strategic plan objectives critical to their work unit and set standards for the work unit
  • DEEDS - putting UTS values into practice (pdf): an activity to enable staff to demonstrate how they can put the university's values into practice
  • Local SWOT analysis (pdf): a method to identify workplace strengths and address workplace weaknesses
  • Strategic plan and workplans (pdf): staff will identify one or two work priority objectives in their work plans that contribute to the university's operational objectives
  • Preparing workplans (pdf): a SMART guide for developing a workplan.

UTS values

UTS' third decade is set to be a period of significant change in Australian higher education.  The UTS Values: DISCOVER, ENGAGE, EMPOWER, DELIVER, SUSTAIN are intended to have a cohesive effect across the university and to guide the kind of performance that typifies an entrepreneurial, innovative and performance-oriented culture. While the UTS objectives describe 'what' UTS needs to achieve to become a world-leading university of technology the values help describe 'how' we intend to achieve these objectives.

The UTS Values are not intended to replace the Code of Conduct or the Workplace Behaviour Statement - instead they look to the quality of relationships and individual behaviour that will get the best results for UTS going forward - so they become 'the way we do things around here'.

• What makes the UTS Values different?
• How will UTS demonstrate its commitments to these values?
• What resources are available to support me to implement the UTS Values?
• How will we know we are living the UTS Values?
• How will UTS measure the impact of the Values?

This information is also available at UTS Statement of Values (pdf).

All staff are responsible for looking at how the UTS Values can apply in their work and to incorporate those into discussions with colleagues and external parties wherever possible.  Staff are also to consider the UTS Values as a dimension of performance and as such, incorporate them into individual work performance plans in negotiation with peers and supervisors.

Own the Future - the movie

This short movie explores the UTS strategic plan in a different way by combining world-real footage and UTS staff as avatars in a virtual world. In taking this approach we have capitalised on the things that make UTS unique – the use of innovative approaches and technology, the collaborative culture we have and the willingness to learn and adopt new ways of doing things. Over fifty staff participated in the making of this movie. Enjoy ...