Saba WORKFORCE PLANNING User Manual

Data Sheet
Saba Workforce Planning
Benefits
 Proactively identify future workforce needs
before they become critical
 Drive company growth by providing
management with the ability to plan for talent mobility and properly staff critical company initiatives
 Ensure you have the right people in the right
roles at the right time to achieve organizational success
 Reduce the risks associated with staffing gaps
and turnover
Features
 Scenario planning to support talent mobility
and critical project staffing decisions
 Model future workforce allocation through a
rich, graphical user interface
 Create and save multiple workforce model
iterations using organization charts and extensible 9-box grids
 Access robust decision-support tools and
detailed profile data to make key talent decisions
 Utilize position-management features to enable
a global view of open and filled positions, incumbents, succession candidates, and success requirements
 Configurable to support unique organizational
needs
 Includes embedded career and competency-
management capabilities
 The industry’s strongest global capabilities,
including support for 26 languages
 Choice of delivery models; in the cloud or
on-premise
In today’s ultra-competitive environment, smart organizations have spent significant time and resources defining and communicating a corporate strategy that charts a course for success. However, few of these organizations can tell you if they have — or will have — the people to execute against this plan. Historically, very little focus has been placed on the actual people that make up these plans, and how the plan interacts with your talent mobility, performance, and development strategies. This situation can result in significant operational risk, as these people gaps constrain the organization from achieving its goals. Thus, organizations are quickly recognizing that the ability to execute the strategic plan relies upon having the right people with the right skills and experience needed to hit organizational growth targets.
Saba Workforce Planning is the industry’s first solution that moves beyond general headcount and demographic-based planning to enable organizations to model their future based on unique people profiles and position requirements. As part of a unified approach to people systems that includes support for people processes such as learning, performance, succession, and compensation, Saba Workforce Planning provides organizations with the dynamic decision-support tools they need to identify risk, scenario plan, and take action. This ensures that the proper developmental and retention interventions occur that lead to improved business results.
With Saba Workforce Planning, you can scenario plan for the future using the familiar organizational charting paradigm.
Data Sheet n Saba Workforce Planning
Unique Modeling Based on People Profiles and Job Requirements
By moving beyond headcount-based planning, which only considers people from a demographic or budget perspective, Saba Workforce Planning empowers organizations to align valuable people process information with business objectives to model future states. Both workforce planners and line managers are empowered to scenario plan, including the ability to create and save models of the organization’s future utilizing familiar visual representations of the organization’s talent such as organizational charts and extensible 9-box grids. And because Saba Workforce Planning is part of Saba’s unified people systems, these models are based on much more than just budgets and numbers. Full insight is provided into detailed people profiles, job requirements, and talent metrics that help the organization highlight areas of risk, such as too few employees with the particular skills needed for a critical role.
Dynamic Decision-Support Tools
Accurate, detailed workforce plans can drive better decision­making in almost any people process. The most important decisions require access to rich profile data as well as innovative views to compare talent and help inform future workforce placement. This embedded decision support is particularly helpful in situations such as:
 Talent mobility — Does an individual or a group of individuals
have the skills, experience, and personal desire to lead a new business initiative?
 Promotion and/or successor selection — Is this person
ready now, or do they need more time, development, or more experience/exposure?
 Compensation — How much will the workforce we need
cost, and how might a change in how we spend affect how we retain pivotal talent such as key performers, high potentials, or critical roles?
 Development planning — What are the critical skills we need
to develop internally and how long will it take us to get there?
 Recruiting — Which roles need to be filled via recruiting
efforts, because we just don’t have the skills or experience to fill them via internal promotion or development?
Managers and workforce planning professionals can utilize our extensible 9-box grid as a key decision-making tool today, while also creating models that represent expectations for the future.
People “System of Record”
Just as Saba provides the tools to create a meaningful success plan for an individual, managers also need tools that help plan for an organization’s future success. To do so, a people “system of record” is needed that enables a global view of open and filled positions, incumbents, succession candidates, and success requirements for positions across the organization. Working in conjunction with job, role, audience, and organizational information, these innovative position-management capabilities enable an additional level of granularity for processes such as succession management, where position-specific requirements need to be articulated.
Saba Workforce Planning leverages the strength of Saba’s People Systems to model an organization’s future using a unified, configurable people system of record. As a result, organizations can proactively identify future workforce needs before they become critical, ensure you have the right people in the right roles at the right time to achieve organizational success, and reduce the risks associated with staffing gaps and turnover.
Saba n Power Up Your People
Saba is the premier provider of people systems that enable today’s people-driven enterprises. By combining learning, people management and collaboration technologies, Saba delivers solutions that help mobilize and engage people to drive new strategies and initiatives, align and connect people to accelerate the ow of business, and cultivate individual and collective knowhow to achieve exceptional results.
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