What Should I Do?

What should you do to introduce (or reintroduce) strategic staffing/workforce planning to your organization if you are facing one or more of these impediments? What might you do to avoid some of these obstacles in the first place? The answer is not to somehow implement traditional workforce planning practices “better.” That would just be doing the wrong thing more efficiently, and there is no benefit in that. Instead, you need to think about workforce planning from a nontraditional perspective. There are two things that you will need to do, whether you are improving the effectiveness of an existing process or implementing workforce planning for the first time:

  • “Tweak” the traditional workforce planning process to increase its ...

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