Increase your awareness of your placement team

Throughout your six month placement, you will build an understanding of your placement team’s goals, roles and responsibilities. Be proactive in building this understanding:

• Identify where your team sits in the organisational structure. Find out the name of your division/directorate, your branch, and your business area.
• Set up a meeting with your placement manager and ask them to show you the business plan for your team and explain how it relates to the broader organisational goals.
• Set up a meeting with each team member to find out what they do. Prepare a list of questions to make the most out of the meeting. Ask about their current priorities, key stakeholders, challenges and how they overcome them.

Albert Einstein said “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t know it well enough.” By the end of your placement, you should be able to explain in simple terms what your team does and how it contributes to Agency goals and the Premier’s priorities.