PBGC adopted an innovative approach for involving top management that
addressed its needs for both strategic workforce planning and enhanced
professional development of potential executives. In 2000, we reviewed
PBGC's organizational structure and reliance on contractor employees,
and recommended that the corporation conduct a comprehensive review of
its future human capital needs that addressed the size of its
workforce; its deployment; and the knowledge, skills, and abilities
needed to meet its future mission needs.[NOTE A] PBGC officials agreed
that it needed a strategic workforce planning study. They also
believed that the corporation needed to strengthen its succession
management program to prepare future managers. PBGC officials
responded by creating a multifaceted program, which it calls the
Leaders Growing Leaders Program, and made the program's participants
responsible for developing and evaluating workforce planning
information. In essence, potential future corporate leaders in the
program became PBGC's strategic workforce planning team. PBGC
officials believed that having its future leaders analyze planning
issues and formulate corresponding strategies to address these issues
provided an added incentive for the team to develop strategic
workforce planning recommendations that its members, as future
leaders, can successfully implement.