Effective workforce development ensures that integrated services and other organisations have the right people in the right place with the right skills to achieve objectives and deliver on their vision. This commits organisations to develop their workforce in terms of:
Workforce development is, therefore, a critical part of the broader human resource strategy for all staff, paid and voluntary, delivering and supporting the organisation's activities, facilities and services.
Workforce development also requires collaborative planning and action, building capacity for the future.
These two books from the National Youth Agency are resources for supporting an organisation's workforce development. Aimed at organisations working with young people in the local authority, voluntary and community sectors their main purpose is to provide a structure for organisations to make judgments about their current performance in relation to workforce development, set out the main sources of evidence on which judgments are based, identify strengths and areas for improvement and raise the quality of their approach to workforce development.
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