Our Thinking
Background and Use of Scenarios within Workforce Planning.
July 2025
Scenario planning is a strategic technique that helps organisations prepare for the future by exploring multiple plausible outcomes. In the context of workforce planning (WFP), a scenario is defined as a “hypothetical, but plausible, story about future events constructed from observed trends and historic data” (CSIRO, 2012). Rather than trying to predict one definitive future, scenario planning allows HR professionals and business leaders to consider a range of alternative futures for the organisation and their workforce.
By Tanya Hammond, Wendy Morison, Jaye Matheson and Tessa Spinks
Why Environmental Scanning is a key input to workforce planning.
June 2025
When embarking on any business venture, it is vital to undertake environmental scanning to understand your internal and external environment. Environmental scanning helps inform decision-making and helps shape ideas and insights leaders and managers need to understand to proactively identify potential impacts on an organisation and its workforce. It is a key component of the strategic planning and workforce planning projects we undertake with our clients.
By Tanya Hammond, Wendy Morison & Tessa Spinks
Workforce Planning - How to assess and enhance your approach.
April 2025
Not sure where to start? This guide helps you assess workforce planning maturity and provides practical steps to drive impact.
A workforce planning maturity assessment is an invaluable step for leaders and HR professionals to explore workforce planning in their unique context, “start from where they are” and establish a shared understanding of the best approach to advance workforce planning and meet the challenge the organisation seeks to solve.
By Tanya Hammond, Jaye Matheson & Tessa Spinks
International HR Day 2025
20 May 2025
The last time our Chief Collaborator, @Tanya Hammond and our Chief Insights and Transformation Officer, @Jaye Matheson were in the office together we sat them down to ask them some questions for International HR Day.
Coming soon...
We're cooking up something exciting behind the scenes! Our team is working on fresh ideas, new projects, and a few surprises we can't wait to share. Stay tuned—something great is coming soon.
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Featured Podcast - The Spark
Interviews with a variety of extremely interesting HR practitioners to learn about their journey and impact on HR best practices.
The Spark is a development program that we designed in partnership with the NSW Public Service Commission. The Spark is sponsored by the NSW Public Service Commission for NSW Government HR leaders and practitioners. The program presents an exciting opportunity to learn from HR experts and business leaders from across the public and private sector through a series of podcasts.
