Te Tōtara shows the team as a forest made up of individuals with different capabilities and experience. Together they provide a capable service for their organisation and communities.
Like in a forest, your role as team leader is to support growth and sustainability. You can use Te Tōtara to embed a learning and development culture in your team.
Read Introduction Te Tōtara to find out about it and why you would adopt it for your team.
Te Tōtara shows the team as a forest made up of individuals with different capabilities and experience. Together they provide a capable service for their organisation and communities.
Like in a forest, your role as team leader is to support growth and sustainability. You can use Te Tōtara to embed a learning and development culture in your team.
Read Introduction Te Tōtara to find out about it and why you would adopt it for your team.
Use the Te Tōtara Team Map to assess your team’s current capabilities and to explore areas for development.
How to use this mapping tool
Use this tool to plot current capabilities. This is an interactive tool to help you rate areas of strength and quickly see gaps.
Explore Te Tōtara values and capabilities as a team, rating the current levels of capability on the map. Determine the capability areas for development, then create a Team Action Plan.This tool provides a gap analysis to support you and your team in identifying areas for learning and development.
A goal of Te Tōtara is to enable kaimahi to be lifelong learners throughout their career. It will enrich the learning and development conversations you have with kaimaihi.
STEP TWO - Make time to kōrero to review together. Adjust the goals and plans accordingly.
STEP THREE - Copy and paste the goals into the PDR template you use.
STEP FOUR - Put time or other resource in place to support the agreed learning and development plan.
The framework will help you get a clear picture of the capabilities of your team and areas for development. It will help you select learning priorities to be built over the coming year and to create a shared team goal.
STEP ONE - Introduce Te Tōtara to the team.
What are our strengths as a team?
Where are the gap areas?
Where would you like to put a shared focus?
STEP TWO - Identify a priority or priority area.
STEP THREE - Set a team goal or goals using the ATAMAI guideline in Taku Tōtara (on page 32).
STEP FOUR - Create a team action plan using your own template or use the one in Taku Tōtara (on page 33).
STEP FIVE - Identify the resources and support to achieve the goal(s).
Consider: How do these fit with your training plan? What needs updating? Are the needed capabilities inside your team, or do you need to bring it in? Do other teams have similar needs? How can learning and development be shared between teams?
STEP SIX - Put up the Te Tōtara poster in a place where the team gather. Highlight the areas you have chosen as a team.
STEP SEVEN - Hold review sessions as a team. Celebrate your capability building!
Start the cycle again next year. You have created a learning and development culture!
