Enabling HR in Local Government: Visualise Your Workforce

Current challenges for local government HR teams

Local government organisations often face challenges like scattered data, accuracy issues and access / privacy concerns.

Here’s 3 common challenges faced by local government HR teams today:

Clearly visualising your organisation: Keeping org charts up-to-date and accurate is a common challenge for local government HR teams. Without clear visualisation, learning who’s who and understanding the organisation’s structure can be difficult, leading to challenges in planning and resource allocation.

Managing leave liability: Leave liability management is another challenge, particularly in public sector organisations where employees can accumulate large leave balances. Proper tracking and management are important to avoid financial strain and ensure smooth operations.

HRIS integration: HR teams in local government frequently manage multiple separate systems. Bringing these systems together into one unified platform helps to prevent data gaps and ensure a smoother HR process. Integration can help to create a more cohesive and efficient HR operation.

How Navigo is helping HR in local government

Over the last 20+ years, we’ve had a strong focus on supporting organisations who are undergoing digital transformation. We provide advanced org charts, workforce analytics and org design software, with an expert team who specialise in technical payroll and HRIS database systems.

We’ve worked with a long list of Australian local government HR teams to enable seamless payroll data cleansing, employee and position management, workforce modelling, compliance and reporting.

Our workforce visualisation software allows organisations to strategically analyse their current and future workforce needs, to ensure that they have the right people in the right roles at the right time.

For local governments, this means ensuring that they have the capacity and capability to deliver essential services and address community needs effectively. It involves understanding the skills required for various roles within the council and then aligning recruitment, training and development efforts to meet those needs.

Visualisation examples that are proven to enable local government HR teams

Organisational Hierarchy
See who’s who in a state-of-the-art hierarchical chart that can visualise any reporting line, no matter how complex. This organisational hierarchy view is helpful for all employees, especially new starters as they can easily see the company structure,learn more about their team and get in touch with any other employee with just one click.

Better leave management
This leave management view provides managers and employees with self-serve access to leave balance. By using conditional formatting, they can easily identify and action leave liability. The chart example below shows you which departments have employees with excess or negative leave.

Seamless HRIS integration
A dedicated tool like org.manager can seamlessly integrate with your existing HRIS system, bringing all your HR data to one place. By centralising data, it reduces the risk of errors and ensures that your information is accurate and up to date. This system also makes it simpler to spot and fix data issues, helping the HR team to maintain clean and reliable records.

Navigo is focused on protecting our customers’ data and information. Our flagship product, org.manager, is hosted by Navigo on Microsoft Azure (NSW, Australia). Azure Data Centres are ISO27001, IRAP & APRA Data Centre certified and accompanied by Navigo ISO27001 certified processes. We maintain a range of cyber security credentials, policies and industry engagement.

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