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1Developing Staffing Strategies That Work: Implementing Pragmatic, Nontraditional Approaches Thomas P. Bechet Most organizations understand the benefits that a longer term approach to staff planning can bring. Many actually attempt to develop Staffing Strategies (or strategic workforce plans, as they are also known). Unfortunately, these organizations often find that the traditional approaches to workforce planning that they try to use are ineffective, and expected benefits are not realized. The answer to this problem lies not in trying to implement the traditional approach more effectively, but in Implementing a completely different kind of process for strategic Staffing . This paper describes (and provides examples of) some of those less traditional, but more effective approaches. The Strategic Staffing Process First, let s clarify our terms. I define strategic Staffing as the process of identifying and addressing the Staffing implications of business plans and Strategies , or better still, as the process of identify-ing and addressing the Staffing implications of change.

3 completed, but few results seen. The strategic staffing process then becomes solely staff driven, or worse yet, disappears completely. More Effective Approaches to Strategic Staffing