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The Journey to Strategic Workforce Planning
 We recently had the opportunity to spend some time with a group of strategic workforce planners who have moved past forecasting and headcounts to true strategic workforce planning. Each person had a different story and journey - because each had different organizational circumstances, different skills and experiences, and different personal qualities. However, there are certainly themes and similarities in these areas between the different people. Unfortunately, each person had been forced to work out for themselves how to make the journey, because there was no reference book to call on. It's a story that is familiar to all too many strategic workforce planners, and it got us to thinking - forget all this research on what organizations are doing, we need to find out how individual practitioners can be more successful! What a valuable resource that research would be for workforce planners.
So we are developing that resource! Aruspex is sponsoring a research effort to find out what skills, tasks and qualities are the most helpful for people performing strategic workforce planning. Some of the areas the research focuses on are:
* The activities that successful strategic planners place the most emphasis on
* The location and importance of the function inside the organization
* Which activities are done with the business, and which for the business
* The most useful skills and experience to have
* The most valuable personal qualities to develop/focus on
We're asking the entire strategic workforce planning community to contribute to this research, and of course the many subscribers to our newsletter are a key part of that community! We need responses from people with all levels of skill and confidence in strategic workforce planning, so please take the survey now!
If you would like to find out more about the strategic workforce planning community and how you can make a difference to your organization, visit our website, or contact us.
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What Got You Here Won't Get You There
 Just as the skills and qualities that make a good operational workforce planner aren't necessarily what you need to be a great strategic workforce planner, there are often times in our lives where we need to change to move forward. In “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”, Goldsmith examines 21 bad habits that are keeping you from realizing career and personal goals.
The book is aimed at executives who are already successful, but may need a little bit of help to reach their full potential. According to Goldsmith, successful people tend to focus on their successes rather than their failures, which can impede future success.
The habits include goal obsession, passing judgement and speaking while angry, often very unconscious small flaws that could hold you back and lead to negative perceptions. Goldsmith provides pro-active direct approaches to overcome these habits, such as monetary incentives.
Strategic workforce planning requires new skills and for some people that can mean overcoming some bad habits you picked up along the way. Goldsmiths’ book might give you a few ideas about how to take the next step towards becoming a true strategic workforce planner.
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