Workforce Planning
Our Approach to Workforce Planning
SACS is extremely experienced in assisting organisations with their organisational development and workforce planning, using our unique model to ensure an organisation’s strategic objectives and people plans remain at the core of what we do.
Many people think of workforce planning as an the administrative or forecasting exercise, but this could not be further from the truth.
Workforce planning, when it is done well, is an organisational development activity which takes the people management component of an organisation and makes it strategic, proactive and future focussed.
The SACS Model of Workforce Planning emphasises the following key points
Strategy
What are your organisational objectives and are they clear? SACS can help to ensure that strategy is able to be cascaded into the organisation in your workforce planning decisions.
Current state and environmental factors
What is the current situation which requires you to take on workforce planning? What is the make up of your current workforce? What are your strengths, what are your limitations and what are your workforce gaps?
What is your current culture?
Is it favourable to your objectives or is change needed?
What workforce will you need in the future given your strategic objectives?
This will include quantitative factors such as how many staff of certain types and qualitative factors such as the competencies they will need to possess.
How will environmental factors differ in the future from those which are affecting you now?
What activities will you need to undertake to achieve the required workforce of the future?
This is the “build or buy” challenge of workforce planning. Will you build the workforce of the future from existing staff through reskilling or buy the workforce of the future through recruitment?
How effective are the “enablers” of the current workforce?
This includes issues such as your recruitment practices, performance management, learning and development, leadership and administration and other processes.
Development of annual people plans.
These are specific operational plans about how to undertake the various workforce activities that will allow you to develop the workforce you will need in the future.
Workforce Planning for Success
SACS are experienced psychological measurement and organisational development consultants with intellectual property on all of these issues.
Drawing on the results of measurement activities such as engagement surveys or 360 degree feedback, we are able to help you with anything from resourcing one component of the model to broader organisational strategy development.
Talk to us about what you are hoping to achieve from this exercise and we will tailor a solution for you.