Workforce Planning & Analytics: How to Start or Advance Your Journey

Workforce Planning & Analytics (WP&A) has been a hot topic for many years now. It's interesting to talk about. It's accurate and worthwhile to discuss how data-derived insights can help HR be more strategic. It's even beneficial to explore how it can be done. That said, WP&A only becomes truly valuable when it's actually put into practice: when leaders, managers, and HR business partners use workforce insight on a frequent, recurring basis to affect positive, planned change. That’s when we’re doing our job. The question for many is: How do I start? For others it's: How do I get to the next level? For still others it’s: Is this the most appropriate approach for my organization? Should we build internally? Should we go with a vendor? Should we outsource some of our analytical needs? These and other questions will be answered, as will arguably the most crucial one: What’s my best next step?

The session will be lead by Al Adamsen. Al has a uniquely valuable background in that he's worked internally at a F100 company, as a consultant with emerging and established brands, as well as with a leading technology provider. These diverse perspectives will help participants better understand the people, process, technology, and governance changes that need to take place to get your team, and your organization, to its desired future state, a point where it’s effectively using data-derived insight to guide decision-making.

The session will delve into proven frameworks like the Data-to-Change Process, the Three Workstreams, the HR Linkage Model, and the Workforce Planning Model. It will also explore leading-edge thinking around Talent Strategy Formulation, Measurement, and Management. In the end, by attending this session you will be more educated on Workforce Planning & Analytics, inspired to advance your organization’s journey, and be clear on how you can leverage data and other assets to generate workforce insight on an ongoing basis.

Heads of HR, Directors of HR, Workforce Planning Leads, Workforce Analytics Leads, HR Metrics & Reporting Leads, Business Analysts, Talent Management Professionals, among others

Participants will learn:

• How to inspire change with data-derived insights
• How to start or advance your organization's workforce planning & analytics journey
• Key distinctions between workforce planning, analytics, and reporting
• The Data-to-Change Procress: How to take data and turn it into meaningful, planned change

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• Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
• Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results by Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris and Robert Morison

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