Darin Fox

Project Lead, Long Term Workforce Strategy Sydney Water

Interactive Workshops: Wednesday, 20th November 2019

9:00 AM Preparing Your Organisation for the Future Workforce Through Adaptive Tools and Methods

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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Conference Day Two: Friday, 22nd November 2019

3:10 PM CASE STUDY: Implementing Flexible Scenario Planning to Future Proof Your Strategic Workforce Plan

To respond to the complex challenges of the future, Sydney must move towards a water sensitive city. How far we go in the journey towards being water sensitive by 2040 is not yet clear, therefore influencing Sydney Water’s role. Sydney Water’s long-term workforce strategy is focusing on scenario planning and experimentation to determine which approaches need to be taken to create flexibility in a strategic workforce plan.

In this session:

Understanding the complex inter-relationship between an internal workforce and external factors such as pressures of affordability, aging assets, and potential for climate change
Identifying the capabilities of the business to determine what needs to change to align with strategic business goals
Utilising workforce analytics and predictive data analytics to determine gaps in capabilities
Using flexible scenario planning to constantly test hypothesis to determine the best approach to creating the future workforce

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3:50 PM SPEAKER PANEL: Understanding the Future Work Environment and the Move Towards Soft Skill Requirements

The emerging changes in operational workforce planning require an analysis on the existing workforce to create strategies that will impact the future of skills and capabilities. Hard skills are teachable and measurable abilities whereas soft skills are the traits that make a good employee. Both soft skill and hard skill are being built into workforce planning to fill in the gaps of future role and capabilities. The aim is to strengthen the leaders of the future and align their strengths to achieve strategic goals of the organisation.

In this session:

Incorporating soft skills capabilities into strategic workforce planning to develop a future ready operating environment
Focusing on behavioural skills rather than technical skills to fill gaps in role capabilities
Understanding how soft skills will influence future leaders

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