Workforce Succession Planning
Workforce, Mentoring & Coaching Success Resources
Human Resource Futurity in the Federal Sector, by Ron Gunn
Workplace Mentoring for the New Generation Ron Gunn interviewed on Internet Voices radio
Mentoring: A No-Frills Guide, a booklet from Strategic Futures
Smart organizations plan today for tomorrow’s workforce realities.
Here are the facts: The workforce is aging. More than half the federal government workforce, as an example, is eligible for retirement. In the next five years, 40-65% of the US public and private workforce will be ready to retire. Once they retire, they will be off the payroll and the benefits of their institutional insight and wisdom will be lost to the next generation of leadership. When it comes to workforce planning and mentoring, the strategic future is now!
We assist in creating mentoring programs and train both mentors and protégés in how to make the most of their mentoring experience. We have trained several thousand people, providing them with the skills that they need to make mentoring deliver its considerable benefits.
We develop programs to ensure that your new employees hit the ground running; decreasing downtime and optimizing your resources.
This “brain drain,” combined with the breathtaking speed of modern commerce, is stretching the workforce to its limits. Human capital executives and managers need a thoughtful and methodical approach to develop tomorrow’s talent pool—today!
Whether you are a leader in a government agency, business, or a nonprofit organization, Strategic Futures can help you design and/or implement a structured, well-managed mentoring program that builds the skills and culture needed to integrate new employees while achieving and cultivating the highest-and-best use of current employees’ aptitudes and talents. With our consulting and training, we can save you money and boost your human capital investment several fold.
Strategic Futures results-oriented mentoring program covers:
- Employee recruitment
- Employee retention
- Morale-building
- Career development
- Workforce and succession planning
- Individual development planning
- Performance management/balanced scorecard metrics
- Organizational transformation
Our track record includes:
Since 2002, we’ve worked with a 14,000-employee government agency, designing and implementing mentoring, training more than 2500 of the agency’s employees in how to do quality mentoring.
Result: The average rating by participants for our training always exceeds 4.25 on a 5-point scale.
We worked with the administration of a Southern California city to institute a mentoring program.
Result: The program is thriving and the City has won several awards for their mentoring program.