5-Minute Frameworks
Headcount Planning
On January 29th, 2026, seven HR and business leaders shared how they actually do headcount planning. Five minutes each. One specific framework. Watch each segment below.
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Top Down & Bottom Up Planning
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Taylor Roa talks through how to align leadership's top-down budget with managers' bottom-up headcount requests.
How Spreadsheets Break at Scale
Emily explains why spreadsheets break at scale and shares the core pillars of a dedicated system that create one single source of truth.
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The Employee Experience in Workforce Planning
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Mick introduces "employee passions" as the next evolution of workforce planning, showing how understanding what excites your people drives emotional engagement, which drives productivity.
The Finance x HR Relationship in Headcount Planning
Aisha shares how treating start dates as strategic levers and setting intentional hiring windows helps HR and Finance move from gatekeeping, to orchestrating organizational rhythm.
Using AI for Scenario Planning
Ian breaks down three levels of AI in scenario planning: answering questions about your data, surfacing blind spots you missed, and pressure testing decisions as a sparring partner.
Hourly Workforce Management
Mark explains why hourly headcount planning is about coverage systems, not org charts, and how maintaining a trained bench sized to your actual turnover rate prevents panic hiring.
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Rethinking Backfills
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Tim shares a five-question framework for treating every departure as a strategic opportunity to assess, learn, and reallocate instead of defaulting to direct replacement.
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