Solutions and Best Practices

Workforce Planning and Development

Power up competitive advantage with Saba Workforce Planning and Development

Harness your extended people chain for competitive advantage

Talented people are what drive long-term competitive advantage. Organizations that can identify current and future pivotal roles in the organization, define required competencies and skills for those roles, and develop bench strength to meet future talent needs will outperform their peers and gain increased business agility to respond to changing market conditions.

Having strategic people processes and the unified people systems in place to gain talent insights and act on them is critical to proper workforce planning and the development of key skills and competencies to meet your current and future business objectives.

How Saba powers workforce planning and development.

Saba is at the forefront of a new wave of solutions called people systems that combine learning, talent management, and collaboration capabilities on a single platform with a common people profile.

Because Saba is built on a common people platform and has completely integrated applications, Saba provides you with the talent visibility and functionality to plan for future workforce needs and develop key talent across the global enterprise.

With Saba's workforce planning and development solution, you can:

  • Easily identify critical positions in your organization and build out competency models to ensure you have the exact talent definition you need for people to be successful.
  • Find people inside your organization that meet your precise competency and skills requirements.
  • Build talent pools to understand your bench strength for any position.
  • Understand talent gaps in key positions based on your competency models and talent definitions.
  • Build development plans to fill long-term skill and competency needs.
  • Leverage internal talent mobility to move the right people with the right skills into the right jobs.
  • View aggregate talent metrics to understand broader talent trends in your organization.