The document discusses the future of the workforce and challenges in managing talent. It notes that the world has transitioned to the age of talent, with economies, work, and workplaces becoming more knowledge-based and less predictable. Shortages in skills and talent are increasing issues. The future workforce will be more diverse, demanding, and flexible. Core skills will include collaboration, adaptation, and explanation. HR and improved people management practices will be key to addressing skills gaps, developing lifelong learning cultures, and enabling organizations to better attract, develop and retain talent.
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf(CBTL), Business strategy case study
Managing the Future Workforce
1. Future of Talent Conference
Managing the future workforce
Peter Cheese – CEO, CIPD
London July 10th
2. We live in interesting times!
• “we have moved from the industrial age, through the information
age, to the age of talent”
• Thomas Friedman, ‘The World is Flat’ 2005
3. A new set of ‘norms’
Economy
Value
Work
Workplace
Workforce
Networked, Collaborative, Flexible
Formal Organization and Informal
Social System Structures
More volatile and less predictable
Continued shift toward Intangibles
Increasingly
Increasingly
Increasingly
Increasingly
More diverse, more demandingIncreasingly
4. Sources: UN, OECD, UKCES, CIPD, Accenture Research
Countries Projected to have Maximum
Workforce Shortages (2020)
Phase 2 of the ‘war for talent’
Talent and skills shortage ranked 2nd
as business risk, up from 22nd in 2009
(Lloyds Risk Index)
Talent seen as nbr 1 issue for CEOs
(PwC annual CEO review 2012), and
nbr 1 risk (WEF 2013)
43% of businesses reporting
moderate skills shortage, with 13%
acute shortage(CIPD 2013)
2.3m more managerial, technical,
professional roles by 2022
But….skills mismatches – eg LGA predicts that by 2022 there will be 9.2m
low-skilled people chasing 3.7m low-skilled jobs – a surplus of 5.5m workers.
5. What will be the future workforce?
• More diverse, more demanding
• Working more flexibly, in many different
ways
• More entrepreneurs, more knowledge
workers, more service workers
• More specialists
• Working more in SMEs
• More jobs and more career changes
• Older and will work longer but with less
security
• Will need to upskill and reskill more
• In a more VUCA world
6. • The great collaborators and orchestrators –
coordinating and managing
• The great synthesisers – pulling together different
things
• The great explainers – filtering and explaining content
• The great versatilists – adapting and developing
specialist skills
• The great personalisers – team builders
• The great localisers – localising the global
• + IQ, EQ, TQ, CQ
What will be the core skills for the future
(OECD view)
8. -677
-94
1,387
770
-305
186
1,235
1,956
15-24 25-49 50-64 65+
Demographic change:
Illustrative projections of change in employment by age group from 2012
baseline, thousands
2022 2032
Sources: CIPD calculations based on ONS 2012 Principal population projections and revised mid-year estimates for 2002 and 2007 , employment
rates for May-Jul 2002 and 2012 based on the Labour Force Survey and CIPD assumptions for employment rates for 2017 onwards.
Systemic shift and challenge of youth
unemployment
UK has worst ratio of youth to prime age employment in Europe
9. Response needed from macro to micro
Industrial Strategy
Employment Policy
Education and
learning
Organisational Strategy
Workforce planning
Strategic partnering
Leadership &
management
TM practices
HR capabilities
• Will require more joined up
thinking from national
policy to individual
businesses
• Tri-partite – Government,
business, education and
representative bodies
• HR has a critical role to play
and must step up
10. Working with education – building the skills for
the future
• Improving careers IAG
• Promoting apprenticeships
and VE
• Volunteering
• Increasing employer skills
investment
• Incentives and funding
• Partnering for lifelong learning
• National, regional and local
• Employability skills
• Routes in to work
• Skills investment
and lifelong learning
11. • Source
• Attract
• Select
• Orient
•Train
•Develop
•Reward
•Move through
the
Organization
Welcome to XYZ Corp
Orientation begins here
Need to invest in and improve People
Management and development practices
Where are your biggest challenges today? Where will they be tomorrow?
13. Creating agile learning organizations
Agility and Adaptability
Scopeoflearning
Low High
Core
training
programs
Collaborative
learning
Learning a
new skill
Reinforcing
existing
skills
Learning at
point of needEmbedded
learning
Learning to
solve problems
Learning to
adapt
Focus of traditional
corporate learning
On-line help and
support services
Continuous, adaptive
and collaborative
learning
Organizational reach
and value
14. HR a key enabler, but developing
managers is critical
15. In conclusion….
Change and opportunity
• Better more inclusive workplaces, more democratic,
more socially responsible
• Better leadership and management at all levels
• More agility – reskilling, redeploying, upskilling
• More diverse TM practices to manage a more diverse
workforce
• Working more with education at all levels
• Improving productivity and job opportunities for all