In this article, learn the 3 simple steps to improve your approach to local government workforce planning. But first, let’s set a baseline for workforce planning.
Understanding local government workforce planning
To start, you need a solid understanding of your challenges, strengths and workforce characteristics (people, skills and roles to meet your changing needs). Workforce planning is all about alignment of your workforce and business goals so you can meet your ideal operating model.
The best way to achieve this is through detailed workforce modelling, visualising your organisation, defining your workforce strategy, designing sustainable structures and testing these structures with what-if scenarios.
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3 Steps to accurate local government workforce planning
To allow managers, HR and senior leadership to engage in a base level of workforce planning, the answers to these questions should be immediately available in an up-to-date, simple and secure format.
Manually managing this process can be quite counter productive, as it’s time consuming, prone to error and data becomes immediately out-of-date once you hit publish.
For over 20 years Navigo has solved these issues for many local, state and federal government agencies.
It involves a three stage process:
1. Establish a data feed from payroll / HRIS into a visualisation tool
Every payroll or HRIS system has its own individual data formats, database and hosting architecture.
Navigo’s technical consultants have experience with almost every system in the Australian market including: Technology One, Civica Authority, Workday, Chris21, Ascender, Aurion, Payglobal, Oracle, SAP and SuccessFactors.
2. Setup your chart views
With a live data feed in place you’re now able to see your workforce and organise it visually with live reports that matter to you the most. Below are a few examples.
a) Easily see secondments and view Substantive and Acting employees by position
b) See department budgets and highlight those above or below
3. Use it for workforce planning
Once set up, charts can be set up with Single Sign On matching existing data access rights so sensitive information can be securely accessed by anyone in your organisation. For instance, the Corporate Directory would be available to all employees, but your workforce analytics or leave liability chart will have restricted access only for managers, HR and senior leadership.
Here are some examples of workforce planning in org.manager:
a. Create multiple what-if scenarios – Engage in workforce planning scenario modelling. Create, share and collaborate using a secure virtual copy of your employee workforce.
b. Succession Plans – Drag and drop to create a live, accessible succession plan for managers & HR to collaborate on.
Once in place, an org chart tool quickly becomes one of the most used workforce planning tools in an organisation. New starters are able to place themselves in the hierarchy and learn who’s who in the zoo.
Most importantly, managers and HR teams have access to live, accurate workforce planning data that allows ongoing monitoring, evaluation and review of the organisation’s workforce planning strategic objectives.
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