To identify strategic workforce planning principles and illustrative
agency examples, we gathered and analyzed information from a variety of
sources. We reviewed our own guidance, reports, and testimonies on
federal agencies' workforce planning and human capital management
efforts, and guidance available through the Internet and leading human
capital periodicals, such as the Workforce Planning Resource Guide for
Public Sector Human Resource Professionals issued by the International
Personnel Management Association. We also met with officials from
organizations with governmentwide responsibilities for or expertise in
workforce planning, such as the Office of Personnel Management and the
National Academy of Public Administration, to identify additional
guidance available and to obtain their recommendations of federal
agencies engaged in effective workforce planning. We synthesized
information from these meetings, reports, and guidance documents and
our own experiences in human capital management to (1) derive five
principles that appeared most important to effective strategic
workforce planning and (2) identify agencies we would contact for
examples of workforce planning that illustrated these principles.