Planning Tools
Presented here is a facilitated process for developing and
implementing an employee recruitment and retention strategy. Such a
plan needs someone to take the lead - to be the driving force
behind the plan's development. As the person responsible for HR in
your company, you are in the best position to take on the important
role of your HR plan's "facilitator".
Being facilitator doesn't mean you have to do everything yourself!
In fact, quite the reverse is true. A working group of individuals
from across your company can help you generate ideas, build
commitment and implement the plan you develop together.
As you progress through the five planning steps outlined below,
you will see how collaborating with leaders, employees and other
stakeholders contributes to increasing the talent in your company.
Note that it's important to proceed through the steps in sequence,
as each one builds on the previous step.
Five Planning Steps
- Set the Foundation
- Determine your organization's readiness.
- Clarify expectations, team members, roles and desired
outcomes.
- Understand the Increasing the Talent model.
- Develop a communications plan.
- Conduct a Needs
Assessment
- Understand your organization's specific recruitment and
retention issues and see how your company fits into the bigger
industry, economic and workforce development picture.
- Identify priorities: Agree on which issues to address
first.
- Develop an Action Plan
- Plan Detail activities needed to address issues.
- Build a schedule.
- Implement the Plan
- Launch and manage activities in the plan.
- Evaluate and Celebrate
- Use the success metrics to assess the plan against its
goals.
- Celebrate achievements!
Increasing the
Talent Model
This innovative model provides a clear road map for planning. The
model looks at attraction, retention and workforce development from
a number of perspectives - employees, employers and communities -
and shows how all the factors involved in finding, keeping and
developing workers are interconnected.