Available with: Microsoft 365 Copilot
Education scenario: Workforce planning
Scenario
Using Copilot for workforce planning
Develop a comprehensive communication strategy to determine communication channels, timelines, and messaging for effective engagement.
Draft a proactive workforce strategy & plan to future proof academic programs and research success at your university.
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Benefit: Identify current research goals and academic objectives across the university to save time and avoid the need to review manually.
Assess departmental staffing needs and skills gaps, weighing-in data from HR records, budget reports, faculty profiles, feedback and enrollment projections to create a central repository.
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Benefit: Avoid manually reviewing relevant resources by using Copilot to retrieve relevant data from identified records, reports, and discussions, and summarize key insights.
Scan existing market reports such as retirement and research funding trends toward future workforce scenario modeling.
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Benefit: Quickly create customized ‘What-if’ scenarios with the identified data to expedite informed decision-making.
Create a comprehensive plan that outlines a dynamic faculty recruitment strategy with evidence to addresses the identified gaps.

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Benefit: Copilot can help author early drafts of a faculty recruitment strategy report in Word, and help create an accompanying presentation, saving you time.
Communicate the plan and proposed recommendations with the administration team and Deans.

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Benefit: Let Copilot draft communication with faculty to share the future faculty recruitment strategy so you can focus on developing an action plan.
Revise the faculty recruitment strategy as needed to incorporate feedback and modify to enhance its effectiveness.

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Benefit: Document improvement areas for further refinement (e.g., performance data, faculty feedback). Have Copilot generate recommended content and reference feedback to incorporate.
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