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Design and Build a Strategic Workforce Planning Toolkit

Create a workforce planning toolkit that will ensure the right talent is available when and where it is needed.

  • Organizations struggle to implement a strategic workforce plan. While headcount planning is a process most organizations are comfortable with, workforce planning is a more complex undertaking that involves more people, more quantitative and qualitative data, and longer planning horizons.
  • A lack of suitable data and internal expertise on designing and applying workforce planning means that many organizations apply it infrequently, improperly, or not at all.

Executive Summary

Critical Insight

  • It is common practice to continually reassess customers, markets, and products in today’s VUCA environment, but there is often no parallel assessment of workforce composition. Leaders need to be planful and develop a workforce planning strategy that positions their organization to take advantage of change rather than fall victim to it.

Impact & Result

  • Start the workforce planning journey by designing the process and planning for the different people and analyses that will be involved.
  • Implement a clear and straightforward workforce planning process aligned with organizational capabilities and maturity to make workforce planning achievable and attain the benefits of this strategic planning process.

Research & Tools

2. Build the analysis toolkit

Create a toolkit that enables leaders to effectively identify the needs of their workforce.

3. Design the forecast framework

Determine the approach to critical roles, create a framework for supply and demand projections, and determine whether workforce plans will apply across the entire organization or for each function.

4. Establish integration points

Decide how results will connect to related programs and processes and create a project plan.

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