Workforce re-alignment | How to implement a redeployment strategy: 6 steps for success

Almost every organisation has had to reconfigure or realign its workforce in some way over the last year. It may have started out as an emergency measure when the crisis first hit, but now more organisations are seeing the value in redeployment over other more costly forms of resourcing.

A 2019 study by Aberdeen found that companies that have best-in-class redeployment strategies realise an 84% improvement in increased revenue per FTE year-on-year, and a 72% improvement in retention and engagement over others.

If you’re looking at how you can promote and manage more effective redeployment, here is a six-step process that will help:

#1: Right person, right place, right time. Successful redeployment can only happen if you have someone available to fill a new or open position, who has the right transferable skills, and who wants to move. In any organisation of more than a few hundred employees, the mechanics of matching skills, career goals and available opportunities is impossible to do manually. Fortunately, tech solutions are widely available to do that. Platforms like our skilling suite can help your employees determine where they can deploy their skills most effectively in your organisation.