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2012 WORKFORCE AND SUCCESSION PLANNING Toolkit to Identify and Address Strategic Talent Gaps Workforce Management Office NOAA 1/1/2012 Table of contents Introduction 3 Workforce Planning 3 Step 1: Set the Strategic Direction 5 Step 2: Analyze your workforce 6 Step 3: Develop an Action Plan 9 Step 4: Implement your Action Plan 11 Step 5: Monitor, Evaluate, and Revise 12 Leadership Succession Planning 13 Step 1: Establish Strategic Alignment 15 Step 2: Id Succession Targets and Analyze Talent Pools 16 Step 3: Develop the Succession Management Plan 17 Step 4: Implement the Succession Management Plan 19 Step 5: Evaluate Succession Planning Strategies 19 Workforce Succession Planning Toolkit NOAA Workforce Management Office 1 Introduction NOAA’s Workforce Management Office (WFMO) designed this toolkit to help our Line and Staff Offices (LO/SOs) address workforce issues and align their workforce requirements directly to the Agency’s strategic and annual operating plans. Taking this comprehensive approach will enables each Office to develop its unique workforce plan around the clearly identified implications of critical capability gaps. This toolkit helps to guide Office decisions about how best to organize and deploy human resources with strong and effective workforce and succession planning that systematically addresses the issues that drive workforce change, and to identify and overcome internal and external barriers to accomplish strategic workforce goals. This toolkit addresses tw