Quick tips: Team Planning Tool
The Team Planning Tool helps bring Let’s get real and the seven Real Skills to life in teams
and individual practice.
Using this tool helps identify where teams are working well and areas for development
within teams. Using the tool gives a team the opportunity to discuss together the
knowledge, skills and values that exist in the team, and to identify any areas for
development.
Purposes
1. The Team Planning Tool provides processes that support services to include Let’s get
real in planning, budgeting, delivering and evaluating their services.
This may include any planning activities and service development projects as well as day to
day practices of the organisation.
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Go to page 12 of the Team Planning Tool to see how to include Let’s get real in
service planning.
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Go to page 14-31 of the Team Planning Tool to see examples of how the templates
provided can be used in each stage of the team planning process.
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Some examples of areas that could be identified follow.
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Include stakeholder feedback (service users and family/whanau in particular)
in annual service planning.
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Include Let’s get real implementation in your organisation’s district annual
planning (DAP) or strategic planning.
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Identify mechanisms to strengthen stakeholder participation within
governance of your organisation, particularly Pacific people and
family/whanau.
2. The Team Planning Tool helps services develop a team profile and workforce plan to
improve team members’ skills in the seven Real Skills.
The tool helps you identify the Let’s get real skills and knowledge that exist in your
organisation or service and those that need to be developed. You can choose which
templates are relevant for you or you may choose to use them in their entirety.
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Go to page 32 to see how to develop a workforce plan to upskill teams in the seven
Real Skills.
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Go to pages 34-65 to see the templates that serve as a guide for each stage of the
team planning process.
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Some examples of areas that could be identified for improvement by working through
the Team Planning Tool follow.
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Working with service users – a mental health team may identify the need to
increase knowledge about addiction.
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Working with Maori – a team may realise it needs to strengthen networks with
local Maori organisations and networks.
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Working with families/whanau – a team may decide it has to strengthen the
way it seeks family/whanau input into service users’ recovery plans.
Quick tips: Team planning tool