1. Workforce Planning,
Talent Management
and What your CEO
wishes HR would do…

2. Workforce Planning and Talent
Management
 WP – simply it’s the “Ability to put the
right people, in the right place, at the
right time.”
 So, what’s Talent Management?

4. Or this…

5. Or this…

6. What Should it be?

8. Real Simple…

9. 5 Things Your CEO Wishes HR
WOULD Do – Regarding Talent
Management
Back to what the CEO wants…

10.  Metrics that show the alignment of the workforce
plan to the major business objectives.
Metrics that
represent a
plan of
action.
Really pretty charts…

11. • Take off the HR
Hat
•Simple
Collaboration
•Understand your
business
HR Pros that get It…

12. Executives work at a much
higher level of uncertainty.
Traditional HR Forecasts are
not effective.
Forecasting is a static
visions of the
future…HR needs to
add in “what-ifs” to
create a qualitative
piece that your
executives are looking
for.
A GAP ANALYSIS…not really!

13. Hire Sharper
HR Pros

14. Why don’t we
do this in HR?
Value over Efficiency…

15. 1. Who in your industry is
aggressively going after talent?
2. Who are the difference makers in
your competitors?
3. Exactly, by name and position, are
you going after from our
competition to strength us and
weaken them?
Your Competition…on a platter

16. Must-Do
Moves…
No
Matter
What!

17. A Plan that doesn’t
treat everyone
equally…Talent
Management is not a
Democracy

19. So now what?

20.  Connect business strategies to needed
competencies
 Develop a Talent Mindset
 Integrate all Talent Initiatives
◦ Software does not equal talent
management…but it sure does help!
Where to go from here…

21.  Becoming a trusted advisor instead of a
fulfillment center
 Become a Work Therapist
 Be one of the tribe
 Stop being a school teacher
 Open w/ What do you think your CEO
wants HR to do?
 Corporate Evangelist – not Corp Hoarder
 Be the Geek Squad for People Systems

22.  Stop saying “No” and start saying “Yes”
 Step into the vacuum
◦ Find the space in your organization where
something needs to get done, and make it
happen.
 Give your “A” card away

23. Your CEO will only care about
Business Results.

24. “HR discovers things about our
business through the lens of
talent…that is a competitive
advantage.
John Baudreau
USC’s Center for Effective Organizations

26. Let’s Connect:
Sackett.tim@hru-tech.com
www.hru-tech.com
Twitter: @TimSackett
LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/timsackett