Strategic Plan

Provides information on the NZSTA Strategic Plan for the 2007-2012 period.

October 2007 Update

Following the acceptance of the Strategic Plan at AGM earlier this year, the committee was asked to reconvene and was given a brief to provide more detail around the proposed new structure of NZSTA, define roles and responsibilities and provide a cost analysis for the new positions.

A meeting of three of the committee members was held in Auckland, unfortunately Julia Cantrell was unable to attend but did provide a detailed report. Prior to the meeting consultation had occurred with Speech Pathology Australia and Siobhan Molloy -Executive Officer at NZAOT. Both these discussions provided greater insight into how NZSTA’s proposed new positions could work within the existing structure. Since the meeting we have had similar feedback from RCSLT in the UK.

Taking all this information along with information gathered from Ngaire – who probably knows how NZSTA currently and historically functions better than anyone – we were able to provide the Executive Committee with an overview of the roles and responsibilities of new positions, elected, voluntary and appointed and how this team can work together to achieve the objectives outlined in the Strategic Plan.

The Committee presented questions and issues for the Executive Committee to consider around terms and conditions, financial implications and recruitment process. Once feedback is provided on these areas the next step is to finalise job descriptions and succession planning process before presenting them to members for approval. Once this has been achieved we can begin the recruitment process and begin our journey to the development and improvement of NZSTA.