Scenarios - Scenarios and scenario planning is at the center of workforce planning, and it's very important that you do it right! Real scenario planning can help you explore the future in a non-threatening but very insightful way.

However, some people see scenario in a more simplistic way that can adversely affect your results. Scenario planning is not about looking at the "best, worst, most likely" forecasts. While this model usually produces interesting forecasts, it is not true scenario planning - forecasting is only looking at slight variations on the current/historical paradigm...not at real alternative futures. Looking at only three possible options makes makes planners tend towards the middle, "most likely", scenario, and, as futurist Joseph Coates puts it, "it misses the point that alternative futures are real possibilities".

Real scenario planning can help your organization produce effective, targeted talent strategies for competitive advantage - best, worst, most likely forecasts only look at slightly alternative staffing projections...which is much less useful!

If you want to know more about how strategic workforce planning and scenario planning can help your business suceed, visit our website or contact us for more information.

HR experts have expressed concern about using analytics to pinpoint employee productivity and job satisfaction. According to Talent Management, productivity and collaboration are key to employee satisfaction. They also look at the different expectations of workers and employers when it comes to the workplace.

 

Human Capital Magazine predicts changes in hiring and job seeking behaviours in early 2010. However, Talent Management has advice for recruiting for hard-to-fill positions. Meanwhile, workforce planning is becoming big news due to new kinds of software.

 

Workshops - Our next workforce planning workshop (with certification from the Human Capital Institute!) will be taking place in Boston on November 11-12. To find out more about these workshops, and when we are next coming to your city,  visit our website.