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Where to Start Workforce Planning? |
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The answer to the question Where to Start Workforce Planning is raising awareness. In essence, show the business why they need to Workforce Plan before you show them how. |
So how do we show why? Here are a few ways to raise awareness of the need to Workforce Plan:
- Conduct a Job Board Search – If you know there are certain roles that the business is experiencing pain in or are critical to your organisation’s strategy then search on your job board how many other employers are recruiting for those positions at any particular point of time. Perhaps do nationwide first then your State or district and then your more immediate area. You could also hone the search to those positions to your industry. This can identify that there is a lot of demand out there for this work and therefore prompt action to be prepared for competition.
- Prepare a forecast - The representation of the workforce that your current trends are shaping can be very compelling. We call this a No Change Future State – that is if trends continue then this is what we could look like.
- Information Briefings - The Strategic Planning process is an opportunity to raise awareness by inviting critical resources (it doesn’t just have to be senior people it may be the best and brightest) to a briefing where you are educating them about the talent market in which your organisation is operating. Workforce issues can surface through this process in the risk management component of a strategic plan.
Of course if you are raising awareness you need to be prepared to work with the business to address the issues identified. So you do need to know ‘how’ or what you will be doing next. You will undoubtedly find the resources on our web site useful and may be interested in our early 2007 training dates to ensure that you do not create an appetite you cannot meet. |
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Gartner Recommend Workforce Planning | | |
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Last week Gartner Executive Programs (Gartner EXP) noted that for CIO's to to improve IT organization effectiveness and contribute to enterprise growth and competitiveness, they require a strategic workforce planning process that aligns business and IT strategies. Lily Mok, research director for Gartner EXP’s human capital management content development group said that “Workforce planning is ...increasingly indistinguishable from organizational strategic planning". The simple Gartner EXP process has four steps:
- Align Workforce Strategy with IT Strategy
- Conduct Workforce Analysis to Determine the Gap
- Implement a Workforce Plan to Close the Gap
- Improve the Effectiveness of Workforce Planning
While we think this is a slightly oversimplified process, and will fail if it ignores trends in the outside world, we do applaud the sentiment that “Workforce planning should not just be an annual, one-time event. It must be an ongoing process”! | | You can get more information on Gartner's view, but if your IT organization is about to start on a workforce planning journey and you want to aim for a richer and less analytic process than Gartner advocate, contact us to find out how. |
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"Cast away the microscopes, focus the telescopes, and get going."
Guy Kawasaki |
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Mums are cleared for reentry. Deloitte discovered that when it came time to promote individuals to partners only 7 percent of the candidates were women - Job Journal
Talent shortages go global - spreading across the world, leaving gaps in many organisations and forcing employers to pay higher salaries, a new global survey has revealed - Management Journal
IT Workforce Planning. Gartner EXP Says a Strategic Workforce Planning Process is Key to Improving an IT Organization's Effectiveness - wire
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Next month we'll give you an end of year wrapup of what happened this year in Workforce Planning - it's been a big year already! |
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