Jake Riley

LEADING AN AGILE WORKFORCE TRANSFORMATION

INTRODUCTION

Corporate leaders and senior decision-makers must seize the opportunities presented by rapid technological advances, shifting demographics, and new employment models to ensure today's businesses endure in the future. To build and maintain competitive advantage, businesses must recognise and manage the risks, while also capitalising on the changing nature of work, workplace organisation, and the workforce itself. Leading an Agile Workforce Transformation will help you make the right moves today to develop and sustain the agile workforce you will need tomorrow.

WHAT WILL SET YOU APART

Through a rich learning experience that includes timely case studies, faculty presentations, small group discussions, and individual projects, you will explore how you can best manage human capital as a strategic asset in light of the forces that are redefining work and workforces in developed economies. You will return with practical strategies for optimising work; attracting and retaining more capable, productive employees with the right skillsets for today's jobs; and removing workforcerelated obstacles to success.

COURSE CURRICULUM

  • Defining the challenge: Understanding how work is changing
  • Technology change: Enabling the agile workforce
  • The impact of the “care” economy: Accommodating the needs of workers
  • Your contingent workforce: Managing the “Gig Economy
  • Skills that drive success: Closing the middle skin gap
  • Geography and talent: Challenges and solutions

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

  • Senior leaders in established companies that are doing business in developed economies and have large, diverse talent pools, including: CEOs, board members, and heads of business units, divisions, countries, or regions
  • Strategy officers or others with responsibility for strategic planning
  • Heads of business functions with particularly challenging workforce requirements, such as product development or operations
 
  • Policy leaders focused on workforce development