Strategic Workforce Planning to thrive today and tomorrow with Alicia Roach from eQ8 Reimagined Workforce - Workforce Transformation

Alicia Roach is the co-founder and director of eQ8. eQ8 is an innovative platform that goes beyond complex analytics, detailed algorithms and predictive insights to produce compelling visualizations that facilitate strategic workforce planning, conversations to drive organizational outcomes. 
I credit Alicia with exposing me to the world of strategic workforce planning at a Public Service Commission breakfast in 2019, where she explained how important SWP is for organizations to enable them to prepare for an uncertain future and maintain a competitive advantage.

9:11 Defining Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP)
13:41 How to demonstrate the value of SWP
17:31 Getting started with SWP
19:51 Overcoming resistance to SWP
24:21 SWP's role in value generation
27:43 The role of People Analytics in SWP
32:00 Where SWP 'falls down' and how to avoid
35:41 Implementing Strategic Workforce Plans
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