Leveraging a Data-Driven Talent Strategy

A data-driven talent strategy can help agencies looking to address skills gaps in their workforce.

In the latest Management Minutes With Mika video, workplace transformation strategist Mika Cross sat down with Kris Saling, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, U.S. Army, to discuss ways data and automation can be used to help your team better themselves, as well as how it can assist you in utilizing your current resources more effectively.

Here are a few key takeaways from that interview. Don’t miss out on the entire Q&A video below.

1. What’s Missing in Your Workforce? Are you missing certain skillsets that are in demand? Saling explained that essential new skills are emerging so quickly that it’s hard to keep up, using GenAI as an example. “Data can help you examine who on your staff has the interest, aptitude and capability to fill those roles,” she said.
2. What Can Data Do for HR? Utilizing data and automation can add efficiency and capacity to your human resources department, allowing them to remove repetitive tasks from their workload and develop different programs to enhance employee experience.
3. Focus On the Four Zones: Saling described a triangle with four zones that included mundane tasks on the lowest level and a “zone of excellence” at the peak. “You want to make sure that you are automating away the tasks at the bottom, making the workload better so that you can focus on the top and what people are uniquely good at,” she said.