Strategic Workforce & Talent Planning

A senior-level diagnostic of building the team the organisation will need, not just the one it has — planning capability future-back, treating key-person risk seriously, deploying and attracting talent at its best point, guarding talent decisions against bias, and weighing the economics of build-versus-buy. Items are realistic workforce-planning situations where the comfortable instinct builds for the past. Scoring is keyed to the evidence: future-back capability planning, succession and key-person risk, deploying talent at its highest contribution, similarity/affinity bias in talent decisions, and build-versus-buy economics. Behavioural-tendency framing and equally-credible, misconception-anchored options make it resistant to guessing and faking. A heavy stretch band raises the difficulty. Administration time: 26-34 minutes.