Te Tōtara Workforce Capability

Te Tōtara Workforce Capability

Te Tōtara: Development Journeys

Te Tōtara Capability Framework is for strengthening a diverse library and information workforce. LIANZA supports and empowers library and information kaimahi in their career development.


Our library and information sector will grow and strengthen with a knowledgeable, flexible, diverse workforce. Continued learning and development as an individual, a team and team leader is the way forward.

Take your own journey to find out where your strengths lie and where you have areas to grow. Take a team leader journey to support your team in working on a shared goal. Take a strategic journey as recruiters and planners.

Click a journey from the menu to explore!

Your Journey

Team Leader Journey

Strategic Journey


Te Tōtara: Development Journeys

Te Tōtara Capability Framework is for strengthening a diverse library and information workforce. LIANZA supports and empowers library and information kaimahi in their career development.

Our library and information sector will grow and strengthen with a knowledgeable, flexible, diverse workforce. Continued learning and development as an individual, a team and team leader is the way forward.

Take your own journey to find out where your strengths lie and where you have areas to grow. Take a team leader journey to support your team in working on a shared goal. Take a strategic journey as recruiters and planners.

Click a journey from the menu to explore!


Development Journeys

Your Journey

Team Leader Journey

Strategic Journey

Case studies

Learn from the experiences of other library and information kaimahi who are already using Te Tōtara in their workplace.

Matamata Piako

Rachel Fisher says Te Tōtara “gave me a framework to work off rather than my own self-created framework. And if everyone has the same framework, then expectations are clear. People have a clear pathway to grow.”


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Hamilton

“A critical point for me was to develop a business-as-usual development culture. It means that staff could start seeing work in libraries not just as a job, but as a career.”

Sarah Corbet, Hamilton City Libraries

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Further information

Take a look at the other resources to help you here:

  • Sector endorsement >
  • How long will it take?
  • Introduction to Te Tōtara flyer to introduce Te Totara to your team and organisation.
  • Te Tōtara poster for your wall.
  • Watch this video introduction to Te Tōtara >
  • Find out more on the kaupapa of Te Tōtara >
  • Use your Te Tōtara journey learnings and reflections when writing your professional registration journal >
  • Join the Te Tōtara Community of Practice >
  • Contact LIANZA for support >

Quicklinks

Te Tōtara Capability Framework

Taku Tōtara Workbook

Pātōtara Worksheet


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