Advanced Workforce Strategies

Advanced Workforce Strategies delivers Strategic Workforce Planning from Melbourne for clients across Australia and internationally, built around founder Colin Beames and his proprietary Skills-Based Workforce Segmentation Questionnaire (SSQ).

• Founder Colin Beames (BA, BEng, MBA) is a psychologist and former civil engineer who has written three books, most recently How to Manage Your Workforce in the Digital Age.
• Named clients include Commonwealth Bank, IAG, RMIT, Telekom Malaysia and Celcom Axiata, plus Geelong, Yarra and Merri councils; a Thomson Reuters executive credits the approach with lifting retention from 85 per cent to 99 per cent in one year.
• A published case study for an Asian metals conglomerate with 3,500 staff and 1,500 contractors used the SSQ to identify 45 roles rated ultra critical, 76 critical roles and 40 specialist roles ahead of a doubling of copper production.
• Supporting tools include a Role Mapping Tool and EVP Profiler, backed by white papers on digital workforce transformation and critical role identification.

Best for: boards and HR leaders needing critical roles identified and workforce plans aligned with strategy ahead of expansion or transformation.

Advanced Workforce Strategies supports Succession Planning for organisations in Australia and overseas by identifying the critical roles a succession pipeline must protect, using its Skills-Based Workforce Segmentation Questionnaire (SSQ).

• Its critical role identification method links role value to succession planning and talent management decisions.
• In a published case study, SSQ analysis flagged 45 ultra critical and 76 critical roles across a workforce of 3,500 staff before a major expansion.
• Findings are delivered through workshops and reports, backed by published white papers.

Best for: HR directors who need a data driven basis for deciding which roles warrant succession cover before growth or restructure.