Strategic Workforce Planning

Strategic Workforce Planning

Translate business strategy into workforce strategy

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Strategic Workforce Planning Insights

Today’s environment of rapid change and uncertainty increases pressure on HRDs and CTOs to ensure the organisation has the required talent to support changing business priorities. Strategic workforce planning sets Leaders up to identify talent needs associated with the organisation’s future goals and establish a strategy to ensure the organisation has the right mix of talent, technologies and employment models to reach these goals.

Strategic workforce planning begins with business strategy.

The first step in building an effective workforce plan is understanding the organisation's business strategy and goals. Stake Holders should partner with business leaders to understand strategic objectives and build a business case for the investment in a strategic workforce plan. Tip: Business leaders are under tremendous pressure to hit short-term targets and focus on immediate staffing needs. Leaders should leverage all available data to illustrate how strategic workforce planning can mitigate those pressures and set Leaders up for future success.

Insights You Can Use

Scalexperts offers insights, advice and tools, like Talent Mapping. Talent Tracking and Salary benchmarking that help HR and Leaders alike practice effective workforce planning, thinking ahead to address tomorrow's talent and business needs today.