The aim of this module is to work out what strategies you may use to source the roles and capabilities your business area needs in the future and identify your priority roles.
By the end of this module, you’ll have developed sourcing profiles for the priority roles you've identified.
In this activity, you’ll come up with a sourcing strategy for the roles and capabilities you have identified.
A sourcing strategy is how you’ll get or access the capabilities and roles you need for the future.
You can have more than one strategy for the same role or capability.
There are 4 sourcing strategy types in this activity:
Use this strategy to develop the existing workforce or team with training, coaching, mentoring and skills building.
It can work well for roles that have a high impact on service delivery but are in low supply in the labour market.
Use this strategy to recruit talent from the Jobs and Skills Exchange or externally.
It can work well for roles that are in high supply in the labour market.
Use this strategy to borrow the skills and capabilities you need from other parts of your organisation or the public sector.
This may provide learning opportunities for your workforce and increase mobility.
Rather than source a permanent employee, you may:
Use this strategy for augmentation or automation opportunities that may exist for repetitive tasks and process-driven work.
Surge capacity roles are roles required during peak times such as emergencies, seasonality or crisis.
Surge roles can be sourced using buy, build or borrow strategies.
To do this activity, you’ll need to have completed the previous activity in design module 1 and use:
Role profile template (PowerPoint, 1.1MB)
Determine sourcing strategy template (PowerPoint, 1.2MB)
Using the roles you identified, plot these on the impact and supply matrix in the determine sourcing strategy template
While all roles should be strategically aligned:
For a high number of roles, you may want to prioritise the roles that are essential for achieving the strategic goals of your organisation, have a high impact but are in low supply or new roles.
Review your strategy and reflect as a group with these questions:
To do this activity, you’ll need to have completed the previous activity and use:
Role profile template (PowerPoint, 1.1MB)
Determine sourcing strategy template (PowerPoint, 1.2MB)
Using these templates, list the roles you’ve identified for each sourcing strategy.
For each role consider the questions below to complete the template:
If you are running this module as a workshop, you’ll need:
Design: module 2 workshop slides, facilitator guide and speaking notes (PowerPoint, 1.2MB)
If you run this as a workshop:
Run workshop: 2 hours
Analyse workshop outputs: 2 hours
Total: 4 hours