Strategic Workforce Planning: Tips, Tools, and Technologies Working Group

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In particular, we’ll share ideas and effective practices regarding the following questions:

• How is your company approaching strategic workforce planning? Where have you found success? What challenges do you face and how are you addressing them?
• What data, metrics, and analytics are most critical to your workforce planning efforts?
• Are there systems, tools, or other technologies that you have found particularly helpful in this area? What parts of the process are more automated vs. manual?
• What is the right time horizon for workforce planning? How do you balance strategic/long-term plans with more short-term/tactical planning? 
• How do you partner with the business to identify future demand for products/services to help you identify talent needs? What are the challenges and how are you addressing them?
• What are the outcomes of workforce planning? How is the information used to inform decision making? What works well and what could be better?

Cornell Discussion Leader:

John Hausknecht - Professor, Human Resource Studies, ILR School, Cornell University

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