Workforce development
Workforce development focuses on a broad range of human resource management strategies that are designed to promote a workforce management system that meets both the needs of an organization, job seekers, and employees in an overriding quest to fulfill an organization's strategic mission.
An effective workforce development strategy provides recruitment-related services, human resource information and skill developing training opportunities to employees at all levels within an organization. The overriding goal of a workforce development initiative is to help the organization reduce its recruiting costs and provide the information and resources that all employees need to attain and maintain their skill levels and any qualifications that are needed to perform key tasks that are critical to helping the organization fulfill its mission.
Workforce development also involves a broad range of workforce alignment and human resource management activities including:
- career planning and exploration
- job searching and placement
- schooling or training (or re-training)
- recruitment and hiring
Employee performance management
A critical component of a workforce development strategy is the employee performance appraisal process and employee performance management. The ability for an organization to create accurate, fair, and timely employee performance reports is emerging as a critical function if not a key success factor in many organization's overall business and workforce alignment strategy.
Web-based solutions accelerate time to value
Web-based solutions can dramatically enhance workforce development strategies by transforming traditional employee performance appraisals from a laborious, time consuming paper dependent process into a simple ongoing process. Web-based software solutions enable organizations to better develop the critical talent that is required to achieve the organization's goals.
Halogen Software offers industry leading web-based solutions for employee performance management that directly support a workforce development strategy. Our solutions feature extensive authoring aids and point and click simplicity that dramatically improves HR and line manager productivity by producing professional quality reviews in a fraction of the time that it takes to use traditional paper-based systems.
For more information on our comprehensive, fully supported employee appraisal and performance management solutions and how we can help you implement an effective workforce development strategy contact one of our knowledgeable customer service consultants by emailing or calling us today.
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We are expecting the time necessary to prepare and administer annual reviews to be cut by more than 50 percent. 
