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Workforce Planning:
How Step 4 Fits


In Step 4, you’ll use the workforce data and analysis you’ve conducted in Workforce Planning Steps 2 and 3 to identify the specific workforce strategies necessary to close your workforce “gaps.” You’ll plug these strategies into your implementation action plans outline in Step 1.

 

The fourth step in the Workforce Planning model is to develop and implement Gap-Closing Strategies.

 

Gap-Closing Strategies help an agency "close the gap" between the workforce it currently has and the one it needs to meet it's operational goals.

 

Gap-Closing Strategies are directed at solving the problem of finding and keeping the right mix of staff with the right competencies.

 

There are a wide range of strategies that agencies may use - we recommend using a Competency Model as the foundation for developing Gap-Closing Strategies.