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In the current economic environment, companies face a daunting challenge: how to achieve long-term growth while having to make short-term cost-cutting decisions, including labor, that may hamper future business success. What critical skills and capabilities need to be retained now to ensure that the right talent, in the right jobs and in the right locations is in place to fully leverage the recovery?
The Strategic Workforce Planning Workshop is designed to help your organization effectively launch a strategic workforce planning process and work toward achieving long-term success. This enlightening and valuable workshop will give you and your team the ability to:
• Identify the key steps in the strategic workforce planning process• Practice and apply key activities that take place in each step of the process• Identify where and how to use analytics to support supply and demand analyses
and future projections• Explain the four levels in the maturity of workforce planning—and identify the level
at which your company is operating• Identify who should own each step of strategic workforce planning, and their roles
and responsibilities• Review the top 10 recommendations for a successful strategic workforce planning
program and evaluate a hypothetical situation• Understand the key factors for building workforce planning capability and how to
“phase in” workforce planning in your organization
STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING: DEFINING AND FULFILLING BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
• Welcome and introductions• Overview of strategic workforce
planning• Determining business goals and key
workforce challenges
• Analyzing current workforce and future outlook and identifying gaps
• Identifying solutions, accountability and success measures
• Getting started• Wrap-up
WORKSHOP OUTLINE
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WORKSHOP TAKEAWAYSWHEN THE WORKSHOP IS OVER, YOU’RE JUST GETTING STARTED. This workshop is just the beginning of putting workforce planning to work for you. We’ll provide the tools and resources you’ll need to implement meaningful, measurable changes to improve your company’s performance.
PARTICIPANT GUIDEThe participant guide is a workbook and contains all group activities and individual exercises for the workshop, in addition to a glossary of related terms, descriptions of the other Workforce Analytics and Planning Workshops and a small print version of the placemat.
PLACEMATKey concepts, terms, definitions and principles are meaningfully arranged on a large, placemat-sized page for easy reference. The placemat also contains an image of the four Workforce Analytics and Planning Workshops with a highlight on the current workshop.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCESAt the conclusion of the workshop, participants receive copies of PowerPoint slides, articles and other valuable resources to better equip you to apply learnings from the workshop.
BE PREPARED FOR YOUR ANALYTICS AND PLANNING JOURNEYAt Mercer, we want to help put your organization in the best possible position to use workforce analytics and planning to their greatest potential. With the right knowledge and tools from Mercer experts, you can streamline reporting and make human capital decisions based on data to help vastly improve the odds of successful business outcomes.
With the Workforce Analytics and Planning Workshops, we can show how to fundamentally change the way workforce data influences decision-making and planning. And, at the same time, demonstrate how to effectively convert workforce data to meaningful insights that will help your business succeed well into the future.
WHY MERCER?• More than 20 years of experience in advanced analytics and
workforce planning
• Mercer’s 20,000 employees are based in more than 40 countries
• Ability to consolidate and leverage Mercer’s intellectual capital
• Superior benchmark capability and research reports
• Ability to customize to client needs, given business and HR strategies as needed
For schedule, location and pricing information, contact your Mercer representative or one of the following:
Asia – Dion Groeneweg [email protected]
Australia/New Zealand – Ephraim Spehrer-Patrick [email protected]
Europe, Middle East, Africa – Julia Howes [email protected]
North America – Matthew Stevenson [email protected]
