VET Workforce Week: Leading with Integrity: Ensuring Compliance and Excellence in Registered Training Organisations

Topic

This session delved into the critical role of leadership in ensuring compliance, supporting staff, and driving excellence within your organisation. Gain practical strategies for empowering staff, managing risks, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

It covered key topics such as compliance requirements, decision-making, risk management, financial oversight, and establishing effective operational systems. 

This webinar recording is targeted at CEOs, Senior Leaders, and any 'Governing Person' within RTOs.

What was covered in the session:

• Leadership and Accountability in an RTO:
  o Understanding the importance of leadership and accountability in RTOs.
  o Exploring the specific responsibilities placed on leaders by legislation.
• Compliance Requirements:
  o Overview of Fit and Proper Persons requirements.
  o Definition of a governing person and the need to inform ASQA of any changes.
• Decision-Making and Compliance:
  o The role of leadership in making informed decisions that facilitate compliance with the Standards.
  o Strategies for leaders to support staff in understanding relevant standards.
• Supporting Staff:
  o Importance of allocating budget and time for staff activities related to compliance.
  o Techniques for empowering staff to meet compliance re-quirements.
• Risk Management and Financial Oversight:
  o Identifying, managing, and reviewing risks within the organisation.
  o Monitoring financial performance and managing conflicts of interest.
• Operational Systems and Compliance Monitoring:
  o Establishing structured systems for monitoring and evaluating performance with the standards.
  o Leadership's role in reviewing outcomes and ensuring continuous improvement.

Webinar content targeted towards:

• CEO’s, 
• Senior Leaders
• any “Governing Person”

Webinar duration: 90 minutes

Bio of presenter:

Melanie has held a variety of roles within the Academic and Vocational Education and Training (VET) sectors over the past 25 years including trainer and assessor, Head of Faculty, Program Manager, RTO Manager, and Head of Quality Assurance and has won awards for practice excellence in teaching and learning, and outstanding leadership.

In recent years, Melanie worked as a Senior Lead Auditor, conducting regulatory audits and registrations against the current VET Quality Framework and Standards for RTOs 2015, and has authored and built a number of online professional development programs to support VET practitioners nationally.

Today Melanie works as an Education Services Advisor of Vocational Education, Skills and Training for Queensland schools and provides consulting support services to RTOs as a VET Consultant in her own right.

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