20 - 22 November, 2019
| Novotel Canberra, Canberra, ACT
Interactive Workshops: Wednesday, 20th November 2019
Workshop A
9:00 am - 11:30 am
Preparing Your Organisation for the Future Workforce Through Adaptive Tools and Methods
Darin Fox -
Project Lead, Long Term Workforce Strategy,
Sydney Water
Strategic Workforce Planning tools and methodologies have evolved since the 1960s but are still predicated on the assumption that the future can be predicted and a plan can be set to engineer a pathway to get to that future. However, it is becoming difficult, if not counterproductive to apply many traditional SWP approaches in a global environment that is perceived to be increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA). This situation presents workforce planners new challenges but also new opportunities to take a much greater leadership role in navigating their organisations through unknown futures.
This interactive workshop will help you to prepare your organisation for the future workforce through tools and methods introduced by the workshop leader such as scenario planning, the futures cone, assessing future state requirements of business capabilities and predictive analytics. The workshop leader will also facilitate group discussion among workshop participants to share their own knowledge and experiences in supporting their organisations navigate and plan through their own VUCA environments.
What will this workshop cover?
- Discussing the key differences, distinct purposes and the time horizons that apply to the terms resource planning, workforce planning and strategic workforce planning are often used inter-changeably
- Demonstrating the futures cone approach as a planning tool to turn scenario planning from a theoretical exercise into something real and pragmatic
- Understanding how to use predictive workforce analytics to identify future skill and talent gaps and minimise workforce risks
- Identifying methods to source, analyse and compile research and trends regarding what the future of the workforce may look like
- Adapting your current strategies to iteratively transition your organisation’s strategic plans
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Workshop B
12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Developing Strategic Workforce Planning Capability On a Budget
Fiona Mackin -
Manager Strategic Workforce Planning,
TAFE NSW
The development of your strategic workforce planning knowledge can begin no matter where you are in your journey. It is however vital organisations understand, re-evaluate and transform their current workforce planning strategy to respond to new business goals.
This workshop will bring you back to basics and provide you with practical advice and support tools that will enhance your strategic workforce planning capability on a budget. Organisations with a restrictive budget must be able to use cost efficient solutions to support their workforce plan and effectively respond to strategic business objectives.
What will this workshop cover?
- Developing solutions to overcome and simplify any metrics and analytics obstacles
- Utilising cost efficient solutions to develop and enhance your workforce plan when embedding your business objectives
- Understanding how to gain traction from senior management to optimise workforce planning resources and strategically align with business goals
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Workshop C
3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Utilising Metrics and Analytics to Enable Strategic Workforce Planning Capability
Luke Kelsey -
Workforce Planning Analyst,
University of New England
Understanding workforce data is essential when making strategic business decisions and proactively managing workforce risks. Many organisations fall into the trap of collecting data that isn’t necessary when developing a strategic workforce plan. Data is only valuable when organisations are able to make sense of it and use it to support a strong business case. This has encouraged organisations to develop strategies to utilise data and understand how metrics and analytics can support strategic business and workforce development.
This workshop will be most valuable for organisations looking to utilise workforce analytics but do not have a clear idea of where to start when utilsing data to develop strategic workforce planning capabilities. This workshop will take you through a detailed, step-by-step roadmap for leveraging metrics and analytics to help enrich your future workforce and influence data driven decision making for your business.
What will this workshop cover?
- Encouraging regular monitoring of data to identify emerging workforce risks
- Understanding metrics and analytics (including predictive analytics) and what should be measured about your workforce
- Utilising and understanding data to align with strategic decision making to communicate the insights on the workforce
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