Interrelate Annual Report 2015-16 | Page 96

• Incorporated the acknowledgement of our 90th anniversary into Interrelate’s marketing plan for 2016. The 90th provides Interrelate with an opportunity to celebrate our 90th milestone with staff, clients and the greater community; increase overall awareness and raise our profile as leaders in the field of relationship support services; and promote our services and programs. • External tendering for Intranet platform and website development. • I-Relate Campaign continued with the Anti-bullying poster competition, presentation at the Say No to Bullying Conference – Gold Coast, hosted the 2015 (October) National Men’s Health Gathering – Terrigal NSW, National Indigenous Women’s Network Conference (Darwin – September 2015) and presented at the FRSA National Conference (Brisbane – November 2015). • Established corporate sponsorships/partnerships with Faber Castell, Concourse Chatswood, College of Event Management, Australian Film Television and Radio School, Filmpond and Stockland. • Established Memorandum of Understanding with Startech Solutions Pty Ltd and Kudos Knowledge. Priority 5 Foster organisational commitment to sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Objectives • Organisation operates efficiently to maximise the benefit from available resources. • To be an environmentally responsible organisation within available resources. • Performance of Interrelate surpasses accepted industry standards. • Agency investment plan developed to ensure future service needs are met and expansion is supported. • Be a good corporate citizen that engages in ethical behaviour within our communities. Progress achieved in 2015-16 94 • Penelope and IT champions appointed to regional centres. • Staff received training to maximise the use of technology – Outlook and email, Word and Excel, the Interrelate network, Penelope (Client Management System), Windows 10, Office 2016, ConnX. • Pilot to full transition of Paperless Penelope process in all regional centres. • Interrelate has purchased three modules of an online system called PeopleStreme: 1. Welcome and On-boarding, which has the ability to run some e-learning work. 2. Performance Management, which allows the organisation to have online processes for performance reviews, probation reviews, one-on-one line support meetings. 3. Complaints (staff and clients), which will provide systemic analysis information. • Continued to achieve milestones of the Environmental Strategy to reflect strategic objectives. Achievements include; installing LED lights in regional centres, waste audit – new colour coded bins, celebration of Earth Hour and continuation of reviewing utility invoices. • TQM framework on the principles of ISO via SAI Global. Training plans for implementation 2017. • Purchase of Port Macquarie site at 1 Merrymen Way, Port Macquarie. • Performance and Risk Framework dashboard now includes trend data. • Transition to TPG for landline & mobiles phones, Internet, WAN.