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The quality of your workforce is the key to business success. By cutting out the algorithms and mathematical complexities, Russell Klosk walks business leaders through the project they will have to marshal if they want to bring their company to the forefront of the future.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I: The Scope of the Problem
Chapter 1: The Science of Predicting Workforce Needs
Chapter 2: Creating Conditions for Success
Part II: The Talent Prophecy Success
Chapter 3: Creating Units of Labor
Chapter 4: Forecasting Demand
Chapter 5: Supply
Chapter 6: Filling the Gap
Chapter 7: Talent Management
Part III: Installation
Chapter 8: Building Stakeholder Support
Chapter 9: Implementing the Process
Chapter 10: Making Adjustments
Conclusion
About the author
RUSSELL KLOSK has been an industry leader in workforce planning and transformation for decades. He's played a prominent role in internal operations at some of the largest and most successful companies on the planet, including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. For nine years, he was a managing director at Accenture, providing offerings in operational effectiveness, as well as workforce modeling and planning. In that role, he consulted with ambitious Fortune 500 companies in financial services, resources, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, and media, among others, offering insight into how to remain at the top of their industries.
A proud graduate of University of Southern California and the New York University Stern School of Business, Klosk is the father of two wonderful daughters. He currently resides in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Summary
Creating a Workforce for Today and Tomorrow
A business lives, dies, and thrives on its talent. Whether it’s W-2 employees, freelancers, gig workers, AI bots, or a mix of all of the above, every business has to get its workforce right if it wants to remain at the top of its industry. Any company with the right people with the right skills in the right place at the right time will have the ultimate edge over its competitors. And that means few areas deserve as much priority as workforce planning and talent management.
In Talent Prophecy, Russell Klosk has broken down all the components behind a successful workforce planning model, as well as all the additional considerations behind implementation. Whether it’s creating the conditions for the model’s success within your company, building stakeholder support, or adjusting the model over time, Klosk has all the insights you need to see your company’s predictive workforce powers improve.
Using language and examples that everyone in HR, finance, operations, and the C-Suite can follow, Klosk relies on his decades of experience advising industry leaders across the Fortune 500 to bring clarity to the complexities of modeling and talent management.
With Klosk’s help, business leaders will not only be able to see the gaps in the skill sets of their current workforce but to prophecy their future needs for every strategy they might implement going forward.
There’s no reason to leave crucial decisions on talent to outdated systems or gut instinct. With Talent Prophecy, you can take your business to the top today and keep it there tomorrow—in any industry and through any technological innovation.
