Acting as a Business: Strategies for Success
Author: Brian ONeil
O'Neil updates his indispensable resource to keep up with the latest show-business trends and help you put control of your acting career where it belongs: in your own hands.
Booknews
A guide for actors wishing to improve their knowledge of how the stage and screen businesses work in order to advance their careers. Topics covered include the unions, proper resumes, cover letters, finding an agent, and the `League' schools. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Strategic Staffing: A Comprehensive System for Effective Workforce Planning
Author: Thomas P Bechet
The problem with most staffing plans is that they look a lot better on paper than in the real world of your business. Human resources professionals and even line managers and department heads often plot out hiring initiatives without regard for the company's business goals.
Staffing can't be done in a vacuum; there is no one-size-fits-all plan to magically drive business outcomes. But what if your company's workforce planning strategy could practically guarantee greater efficiency, reduced turnover, lower staffing costs, and long-term growth?
Introducing the second edition of Tom Bechet's Strategic Staffing, the only book that offers not just general ideas but real, quantifiable approaches for aligning your workforce planning initiatives with business goals. When you build teams, departments, and divisions around organizational objectives, rather than shoehorning those objectives around the people you already have, you are truly optimizing the impact of your human resources.
Featuring eight all-new chapters and significant updates and revisions throughout, the new edition provides step-by-step instructions and powerful tools for accurately identifying and addressing staffing needs within the context of what your organization is trying to do. Coupled with a companion website accessible with the purchase of the book, Strategic Staffing gives you: Detailed, numeric diagnostic instruments that will help you develop a fully realized staffing plan, Customizable Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, Dozens of clear examples, plus three full, real-world case studies of strategic staffing in action.
As enlightening and inspiring as it is concrete and practical, StrategicStaffing is a powerful, process-oriented guide that takes you all the way through a workforce planning initiative custom-tailored to your company-and designed for maximum results.
Table of Contents:
Sect. 1 Setting the Stage 1
1 An Overview of This Book 2
2 What Is Strategic Staffing, Anyway? 6
3 How Should You Begin? 17
Sect. 2 Developing the Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning Process 21
4 Placing Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning in a New Context 22
5 Designing Your Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning Process 41
6 Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning at 30,000 Feet 77
7 Defining Required Staffing Levels 85
8 Defining Staffing Requirements Where Plans Are Uncertain 112
9 A Staffing Model Example 125
10 Effective Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning: Case Studies and Examples 141
Sect. 3 Implementing and Supporting Your Strategic Staffing/ Workforce Planning Process 165
11 Implementing Your Process Effectively 166
12 Placing Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning Within Your Business Context 177
13 Engaging and Involving Managers in Strategic Staffing 191
14 Developing a Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning Web Site 205
15 Supporting Strategic Staffing/Workforce Planning: HR Structure and Required Skills 214
16 Getting Started: Conducting a One-Day "Kickoff" Session 227
Sect. 4 Beyond Staffing Plans: Analyzing and Applying the Results 239
17 Using Workforce Planning to Define the Impact of Retirements on Your Workforce 240
18 Using Workforce Planning to Support Management Succession and Development Planning 247
19 "Talent Planning": The Key to Effective Talent Management 261
20 Structuring Strategic Workforce Planning to Support Common Business Initiatives 270
21 Defining Staffing Reductions in a Strategic Context 283
22 Measuring Staffing Effectiveness and Efficiency 288
23 Calculating Staffing Costsand Evaluating Staffing Options 295
Appendices
A Frequently Asked Questions 309
B Using the Strategic Staffing Templates from the Web Site 317
C Retrieving the Book's Computer Files 335
Index 337
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