In this transcript, the speaker discusses the challenges of leading a busy HR team that supports a larger organization. They compare it to juggling while running uphill, and highlight the importance of workforce planning in such a situation. The speaker emphasizes that having an engaged workforce can make workforce planning much easier. Engaged employees are committed and stable, reducing turnover and making communication more effective. They are also more productive, improving overall performance. An engaged workforce can help HR professionals focus on strategic direction and improve organizational reputation. The speaker concludes that driving employee engagement is a game changer for workforce planning and can make the entire process smoother, more manageable, and more effective.
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Leading a busy HR team supporting a larger organization is like running uphill while juggling.
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Engaged workforce transforms employee population from clock punchers to committed force.
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Workforce becomes stable and predictable, making planning more effective.
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Engaged employees communicate their needs more openly, leading to effective planning.
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Employee engagement increases productivity and elite performance.
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Engaged workforce makes HR more strategic and focused.
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Driving employee engagement number up makes the entire process of workforce planning smoother and more effective.
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Employee Engagement and Workforce Planning
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When you think about all the things that HR is responsible for and all the things that you have to put together, workforce planning becomes one of those critical items that you can't get ahead of under normal circumstances when you're dealing with a disengaged workforce. And that's where the shift.
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First and foremost, your turnover issue tends to go away. You're finally getting off that talent and traction hamster wheel where people are coming in and leaving, and it's a revolving door within your organization. Your workforce becomes stable and predictable. That helps you plan a lot more effectively.
When you've started solving for that turnover issue. From a workforce planning perspective, all of your employees start communicating their needs a lot more openly. It gives you the ability to really plan more effectively and put the right people in the right seats on the right bus going the right direction.
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Where they're supported, their growth is nurtured. You're gonna see performance overall increase, and then the high performers, there's gonna be more of them, and the ones that were already performing high are gonna take their performance to the next level.
When you're looking at. What employee engagement does from a workforce planning perspective, you're gonna get a lot more out of the team that you have.
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When you're looking at. Workforce planning. One of the game changers that you have to be focused on is driving that employee engagement number up, because that makes the entire process of workforce planning a lot easier. So rather than running and juggling uphill, you're now being much more strategic and much more focused .
This makes the entire process. Of workforce planning smoother, more manageable, more effective.
While being part of a busy HR team, supporting a much larger organization can often feel like you're running uphill while doing 10 other things at the same time. One of the ways that you can make that journey a lot easier, especially from a workforce planning perspective, is to focus on how engaged your employees are.
