Creating Strategic Workforce Fitness
Which Chair or CEO are you?
Exposed, Aware and Pace-setting Chairs/CEOs tend to grapple with different issues, concerns and motivations as they work towards their future-fit workforce.
1. Exposed Chairs/CEOs seek peace of mind
Have a sense of potential people risks | Perhaps concerned about personal liability | Keen to address risks quickly and effectively.
Exposed Boards and CEOs often sense that something’s not quite right on the people front, but can’t quite get a handle on the specifics. They might be aware of an issue and just don’t know what to do. Perhaps the problem has been brewing for some time, and the alarm bells are now ringing louder. A customer may have said something that indicates a more significant people problem, or unwanted turnover might have increased.
The key here is to uncover the people risks before they slow you down, and take the steps needed to quickly diagnose, address and prevent them from reoccurring.
We work with you to:
- Promote a healthy and transparent sharing environment
- Test insights and identify the root causes first-hand
- Confirm priorities, mitigation plans, resources and action plans
- Enable and support timely remediation
- Put mechanisms in place to reduce relapses, and promote healthier long-term solutions
We do this via our four step PeopleFit Remediate Framework:
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- Review – We evaluate your current people risk environment, appetite for change, current control measures and call-out channels.
- Reveal – We engage your stakeholders through people risk awareness discussions, and an in-depth review of your internal people-related data and information. This allows us to get to the root of any problems, and determine why they might be occurring.
- Reset – We help you design a detailed action plan to respond to identified people risks, including determining risk ownership, key roles and outlining required actions.
- Report – Agree on key reporting timeframes and actions, and help you put measures in place to monitor key people risk indicators over time.
Curious about the potential people risks might you have? Download our complimentary Potential People Risk checklist now.
2. Aware Chairs/CEOs look for greater confidence
Concerned about workforce future-readiness | Require a more objective perspective | Keen to improve transparency and governance.
Aware Chairs and CEOs know they need to future-proof the workforce but are concerned about the pieces of the workforce puzzle they may be missing. They might not be receiving the people risk information they need, and so are unable to monitor these issues over time.
They are often worried that they have no clear view of just how ready the workforce will be to deliver in the future. And aware Boards are increasingly dissatisfied with simply hoping that cultural and behavioural issues are being addressed in the right way.
The key here is to objectively assess your workforce’s future-readiness and risks, building over time to a tailored Board-level, people risk framework and dashboard.
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- Select the right metrics for your PeopleFit governance dashboard
- Establish your risk appetite as dashboard indicators
- Enhance the quality of the underlying people data and information
- Ensure the expertise, resources and mechanisms are in place to support good people governance
The PeopleFit Illuminate Framework
Using our PeopleFit Illuminate Framework, we guide you through four steps to give you a clear, objective picture of the future-fitness of the workforce, and help you put in place what’s needed.
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- Identify – Review the current people indicators and underlying data sources being used by the Board and Executive.
- Inquire – Explore and confirm the people metrics most critical to your organisation’s strategic direction, and likely future workforce scenarios.
- Inform – Build a tailored people-fit governance dashboard, and work with you and your stakeholders to validate and strengthen the data sources and mechanisms that inform it.
- Install – Guide the implementation of your dashboard so that it works as it should, and that the underlying quality of data and its sophistication improves over time.
Curious about the potential workforce gaps you might have? Download our complimentary Potential Workforce Gaps checklist now.
3. Pace-setting Chairs/CEOs seek greater momentum
Apsire to create a market-leading workforce | Look to sustain long-term out-performance | Keen to leave the legacy of a future-ready workforce.
- Diagnose your people future-fitness strengths and gaps
- Map the current and desired people future-fitness maturity levels
- Prioritise people future-fitness goals, plans and sponsorship mechanisms
- Gain traction by confirming the right level of expertise, support and monitoring
The PeopleFit Accelerate Framework
Using these four steps in our PeopleFit Accelerate Framework, we help you to mature your ability to build a future-fit workforce:
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- Assess – We assess and prioritise current and desired states of people future-fitness using our 5-step framework.
- Articulate – We confirm priority areas of action and co-design a tailored plan, milestones and stakeholder responsibilities to address these..
- Activate – We help implement your plan and provide the necessary levels of support, coaching and/or expertise.
- Achieve – We review progress with stakeholders and find ways to further accelerate, staying beside you as you need.