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Patricia Cruz, Senior Project Manager, Leidos led an important session on "Workforce Development, Recruitment, Retention and Succession," showing TMEPA members why workforce planning is so important. Key Takeaways:
1. Have a Strategic Plan
>Review plan and have direction of what will be needed in the future.
>Your Strategic Plan allows you to plan your workforce needs.
2. Access Workforce Situation
>Get that understanding of what you have in place – the current situation and your strengths and weaknesses.
3. Conduct Gap Analysis
>Big picture understanding – how to get from A to B.
>Ask, what is needed to have the right people, with the right skills in the right place with the right costs?
4. Define Goals and Strategies
>Know your goals and how to accomplish them.
>Have strategies and "talent management" on how to retain and keep your workforce, including recruitment, training, retention, succession planning, performance management and culture of organization.
5. Core Value and Culture
> If you are really living your values, that is the type of culture you will be creating.
Challenges:
1. Aging workforce.
2. Recruiting and hiring the "right people."
