Strategic Planning
NEW for 2012 Workforce Planning and Development Conference Talks (C) and Workshop (W) Topics
Looking for relevant and practical professional development and engaging conference presenters? Any of these NEW topics interest you?
- A Broader View of Client Workforce Development
- An Introduction to Innovative Workforce Management
- Building Competency Frameworks to Measure Workforce Capability
- Developing a Workforce Plan in 5 Easy Steps
- Engaging Employers, Stakeholders and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
- Future Service Provision
- Give Your Organisation a Health Check or Give your charity a business check
- How to Develop a Skills Profile
- Organisational Development – what every CEO, HR and VET professional must know
- Regional Workforce Planning
- Training Needs Analysis
- Work Life Balance – An Introduction
- Small and Medium Sized Enterprise (SME) Extreme Make-over
- Teleworking and Working at Home
- What’s in your Innovation Toolkit?
- Workforce Development and Planning in Practice
NB. Check out the info on customisation
Supporting tools and resources including:
- NBN Enabled Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) – Assess Your Capability; and
- Workforce Planner Self-evaluation
Interested? YES, then read about the details of the topics, send an email to wendy@workforceplanningtools.com.au with your pick and mix list or specific focus area and we’ll come back to discuss what you want, a brief proposal and possible dates. Thank you!
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Clever Brainstorming Techniques
I’m always looking for innovative ways to think up new projects; about problems and answers; and to understand workforce issues and opportunities.
Recently I came across Speed Thinking by Ken Hudson which has 4 steps:
1. Start – brainstorm 9 ideas in 2 minutes (individually or in a group)
2. Evaluate – in 2 minutes pick the best idea in 2 minutes
3. Build – make this 1 idea 9 times better in 2 minutes
4. Action – identify 9 action steps in 2 minutes
Blue Ocean Strategy by W Chan Kim & Renee Mawborgne 2005 aims to create value innovation with their 4 actions framework:
- Reduce - Which factors should be reduced?
- Create - Which factors should be created?
- Raise – Which factors should be raised?
- Eliminate - Which of the factors should be eliminated?
Think Better by Tim Hurson says productive thinking in action starts with:
- What’s the itch?
-What’s the impact?
-What’s the information
– What do you know and wonder?
-Who’s involved?
-What the vision?
Thinking differently doesn’t often come naturally and using these techniques moves you away from looking at things in the same old way.