Do as I Say, Not as I Do!

Laura Chalkley

WHEN IT COMES TO WORKFORCE and succession planning, especially in local government, how true the words in this chapter’s title seem. It’s not that we don’t want to think about it. The truth is that the busyness of our jobs and daily lives gets in the way of our doing anything but putting out the fires that are popping up all around us. And if truth be told, many think that workforce and succession planning are human resources functions. But are they solely HR? It’s true that there is a lack of ownership and/or confusion around who is responsible for workforce and succession planning, and we have come to think the solution is a partnership, a shared responsibility between individual departments and HR. ...

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