Developed through considerable research, data analysis, interviews and consultation, the following industry and workforce development plans contain actions and recommendations aimed at ensuring the best vocational education outcomes.
The plans incorporate what we heard from the interviews with industry and the wider consultation. Toi Mai would like to acknowledge and thank those who shared their invaluable feedback and insights.
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Ngā Awa Kōrero workforce development plan lays the foundation for empowering the journalism sector in Aotearoa, to make it more resilient and sustainable, supported by a diverse and highly skilled workforce.
This plan is the result of data analysis and both in-person and online engagements with a broad range of people from the sector. The research, engagements and wider consultation have informed the recommendations and actions made to empower the journalism sector.
Kia Mura! is the first workforce development plan for Toi Puaki (performing arts) created by Toi Mai Workforce Development Council and supported by the results of engagements with over a hundred people working in theatre and live music – including empathy interviews and creative talanoa – as well as sector analytics and data. The plan does not claim to cover the whole sector, but represents a snapshot in time, sharing insights about what the sector needs now to become a thriving workforce in the future.
Currently, Te Ahi Toi Puaki (the fire of Toi Puaki) is burning low with the funding that fuels it in short and sporadic supply. Without a fair and sustainable funding model, the fire will become a few embers and eventually go out. If Te Ahi Toi Puaki can burn fiercely, then audiences and practitioners alike will flock to enjoy its warmth and undeniable beauty.
The recommendations and actions contained in Kia Mura! incorporates what we heard from the interviews with industry and wider consultation.
He rangi whawhati kō, he tau hāwere is the first workforce development plan (WDP) we have developed for Toi Ora. This WDP focuses specifically on the exercise industry and is the result of interviews with 17 industry leaders and further engagements with 80-plus industry people, supported by sector analytics and data. The engagements and understandings developed during this process inform the recommendations to initiate the changes needed to ensure a thriving workforce and productive exercise industry.
The WDP contains three recommendations for industry and other organisations as well as four actions for Toi Mai to tackle these challenges and work towards a thriving exercise industry by 2035.
Te Waha o Tāne, the second workforce development plan (WDP) for Toi Pāho, follows the inaugural WDP by Toi Mai, Te Wao Nui o Toi (2023). While that highlighted the challenges facing the screen industry’s below-the-line workforce (production crew roles), Te Waha o Tāne focuses on the needs of the above-the-line workforce (producers, directors and writers). Given the interdependence of the above- and below-the-line workforces for success, many of the insights gained through the development of Te Wao Nui o Toi are still relevant in this plan.
Te Waha o Tāne gives an overview of the sector’s training needs for those in creative leadership roles. It provides actionable guidance and recommendations in order to amplify the voice of the industry, build a diverse and capable workforce, and enable our Toi Pāho industry to thrive by ’35.
Te Wao Nui o Toi conveys industry views on addressing the acute shortage of skilled below-the-line production workers in Toi Pāho: defined for the purposes of the report as the film, television and interactive media industries.
The findings in Te Wao Nui o Toi were developed from August to December 2022 through consultation with:
To address challenges such as attracting, training and developing Toi Pāho employees, Te Wao Nui o Toi recommends better alignment between below-the-line workforce needs and vocational training and education, initiatives to make Toi Pāho careers more attractive/accessible and increased collaboration across education, government and industry.
Toi Ora, Tāngata Ora; Toi Ora, Whenua Ora is the first industry development plan (IDP) for Ngā Toi Māori, the Māori creative arts sector. While recognised socially as a sector, there is no formal, legal classification, and so accurate statistics on who is working in the sector and how many – needed to aid workforce development initiatives – are currently impossible to gather, and any formal coverage of the sector includes Māori doing work in other sectors that don’t necessarily fall within Ngā Toi Māori, such as graphic design, architecture and media.
This IDP has been developed through a human-centred research process where 12 empathy interviews and one wānanga were conducted with ringatoi (artists) from across various disciplines, whose kōrero informed the themes, challenges and opportunities as outlined in the plan.
Kia Ita! is the first workforce development plan (WDP) for Toi ā-Ringa (the art and design sector) created by Toi Mai Workforce Development Council. This plan specifically focuses on the barbering and hairdressing industry and is supported by the results of sector data/analytics and interviews, wānanga and other engagements with barbers and hairdressers from across the motu.
In our engagements and research, Toi Mai found that barbers and hairdressers faced many different but similar challenges. To tackle these challenges, the plan has identified various solutions-focused recommendations and actions. Our hope is that these, if enacted, will bind together the loose strands of dishevelled hair within the industry and unite the hair and barbering communities as we work towards a thriving workforce by 2035.
Te Wao Toi Whānui is the first workforce development plan for vocational training for Toi Whānui (Enabling Technologies), the digital technology workforce of Aotearoa.
This plan highlights the challenges and opportunities in attracting, training and retaining Toi Whānui employees and offers actions and recommendations for building a thriving and sustainable workforce.
Toi Mai offices are closed from midday on Friday 20 December and will reopen on Monday 6 January 2025.
We will not be checking phone messages or emails during this period, however please feel free to leave a message and we will respond when we return in the New Year.
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