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ANNUAL REPORT 2017 E N G A G E D F A M I L I E S , STA F F A N D O T H E R STA K E H O L D E R S Our staff: the heart of KU KU 20 17 KU recognises that staff are our greatest asset, and we work hard and invest strongly in making sure the best and most experienced professionals choose and stay with KU. We know the best results are achieved when we can connect our organisational goals and values to personal values. At KU, our leadership model is clearly based around living the clearly articulated KU values, and pleasingly in the 2017 Employee Engagement Survey 95% of staff believed KU lived its values. In 2017, KU was again honoured to be awarded as an Employer of Choice for the second consecutive year, by the Australian Business Awards. This recognises that KU’s integrated Employee Value Proposition remains at the forefront of the early education sector. This brings together our individual working environments, our approach to remuneration and benefits, the opportunities offered to staff to engage in ongoing professional learning, and our approaches to career and succession planning. In order to remain an Employer of Choice, KU is constantly looking to improve our environments, systems and processes, and an important part of this is that staff have a strong voice in the ongoing development of KU. In 2017, staff provided critical input into the IT advisory group which informs the significant investment 6