Professional Development

What is Development @ Unitec?

Here at Unitec, learning is what we do. We’re committed to lifelong learning; for our students and for ourselves.

Our approach to Professional Development has a strong emphasis on competency-based development and applied learning.

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We focus our development efforts on the specific competencies (skills, knowledge, behaviours) identified as supporting our people to deliver on our Kaupapa e.g. Leadership Competencies, Teaching Competencies, Research Competencies
When setting development plans, we integrate organisational, team and individual learning goals and prioritise accordingly.

We use an adaptation of Pohatu’s Mauri model to evaluate competency – a developmental model which focuses on fulfilling one’s potential through self-evaluation and continuous learning.
We invest in professional development to enable success in our current roles while balancing this with the need to move forward on our personal career development pathways.

We have a 70/20/10 development mindset; acknowledging the importance of multiple ways of continuously acquiring and applying learning in our day to day mahi – learning happens everywhere, everyday.
It’s not just about participation in courses or conferences – it’s an approach that focuses on outcomes and evidence of learning however it occurs.

We use the Performance Partnering process to identify, agree, and review our development goals

We plan and allocate our professional development leave to achieve these goals.