What do you get when you engage a panel of workforce planning experts and ask them some big questions?
Food for thought and actionable insight.
That’s what we and over 200 registrants were hoping for at our recent webinar, co-hosted with ATC Events – Workforce Planning Expert Panel Q&A – Asking The Big Workforce Planning Questions.
We weren’t disappointed, as the panellists engaged in questions and answers while providing intriguing insight for 60 minutes. The expert panel, with years of practical, real-world workforce planning experience between them, included:
Quentin O’Grady, Senior Director – Workforce Strategy Branch, Queensland Health
Tony Wallace, Senior Manager, People Advisory Services, EY
Karen Evans, Managing Director, APAC, Acendre.
The focus was on big and small workforce planning, forecast accuracy and diversity of workforce. We asked our expert panel our questions — and they also took several from the audience. Here’s an overview of the discussions:
Big vs. small workforce planning – should it be a “one view” undertaken by HR/Finance, or moved into Talent Management?
This article first appeared on Acendre on December 7th, 2016.
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Joe Abusamra is Vice President, Product Marketing for Acendre, a provider of secure, cloud-based talent management software, with a focus on people analytics and workforce planning. Abusamra is a contributor to several international and federal publications and websites focused on analytics, talent management and HR technology. He has over 20 years-experience in start-up and publicly traded high-tech companies, having held executive positions in product marketing, marketing and product management.