NCAR Workforce Management Plan
Executive Committee
ML-Chapman Room
1:00-3:00 pm
December 11, 2008
Present – Eric Barron, Rick Anthes, Maura Hagan, Bob Roesch, Jim
Hurrell, Chris Davis, Sue Schauffler, Helen Moshak, Roger Wakimoto.
Minutes by Jan Wilmesmeier.
A. Role of the Workforce Management Plan Executive Committee –
Discussion surrounded transparency and communication to staff
pertaining to the topics and Subcommittees. The Subcommittees should
report back to the Executive Committee concerning progress, and the
Executive Committee should offer guidance to the Subcommittees and
help resolve issues that arise.
B. Create a web page? - There should be a public web page like the
NCAR Director’s Committee, where an overview of the Workforce
Management activities and schedule are public. The idea was also
proposed to build a wiki network for the Executive Committee that is
driven by UCAS passwords and looks similar to a web page. Discussion
surrounded putting FAQs on the web page/wiki. A subset of questions
and answers would be posted on the FAQ page. Roger will make a
15-minute presentation at the NCAR Strategic Plan town hall meeting on
January 8, 2009 to discuss the scope, vision, and topics to be covered
by the Subcommittees.
C. List of topics addressed by each Subcommittee - A revised list of
topics will be posted on the wiki after the Subcommittees meet.
Subcommittees should be open to topics of importance to the NCAR
workforce.
D. Important that subcommittee needs are expressed to Subcommittee II
“Environmental Scan” ASAP- Several institutions were suggested to
Helen for collecting environmental scan information.
E. Need to integrate the Board of Trustees Personnel Committee into
the process - It was discussed that the best way to integrate the BOT
Personnel Committee would be at their meeting on February 10, 2009. An
hour should be reserved for the WMP, and Roger would lead it by making
a 15-minute presentation.
F. Understanding the timeline - The scanning and information gathering
should be wrapped up in March or April, 2009. A draft should be
complete by October, 2009 and presented to the BOT at their October,
2009 meeting. Once the Board signs off on it, then the Executive
Committee will polish it up.
G. Integrating “Fabric” and WMP. - A lot of fabric issues are also
workforce management issues. The Strategic Plan was designed to use
unit plans to build the “fabric” part of the NCAR plan. Rather than
have two efforts in parallel, fabric issues in unit plans should be
sent to the appropriate workforce management committee. The NCAR
Strategic Plan will then have two parts – part 1 focused on scientific
and engineering imperatives and frontiers, and part 2 focused on
workforce issues.
H. Final product. - For the first cut of final product, Subcommittees
should present their high priority topics, their scan information, and
what they suggest as recommendations and goals. Once the Subcommittees
feed the Executive Committee the information and suggestions, the
Executive Committee will write the plan. The plan should not read like
separate subcommittee reports.
I. Open Discussion - Roger will try to attend the first meeting of
each Subcommittee. Identifying and prioritizing the list of topics for
their group is one of the first objectives of the subcommittees. They
should also immediately identify the environmental scan requirements
(internal and external to NCAR). It was mentioned that we have two
goals that we should keep in mind: 1) to make NCAR a better place to
work for and 2) have the workforce in place that can execute the NCAR
Strategic Plan.
For more information, contact Roger Wakimoto at ext. 2040, wakimoto@ucar.edu.
Tue, Dec 23, 2008 to Wed, Dec 24, 2008
