Section 3: Implementing and Supporting Your Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning Process

Developing the right strategic staffing process won’t help if that process is implemented incorrectly. Section 3 describes the context within which strategic staffing is best implemented. It includes:

• A framework that ensures effective implementation of the process

• A diagnostic tool that you can use to define the strategic context in which the process will be implemented in your particular situation

• A form that you can use to evaluate your company’s current strategic staffing process and identify opportunities to improve its effectiveness

• Specific suggestions on how you can engage and involve line managers in the process, including an interview guide that can be used to help identify staffing issues and define staffing requirements

• A description of what might be included on a strategic staffing web site that could reside on your company’s intranet

• A description of the HR functional structure that best supports strategic staffing/workforce planning (including some of the skills and capabilities the staff will need)

• Detailed suggestions and notes (almost a script) that you can apply when using the PowerPoint presentations that are available to you on the web site