• How many employees are eligible to retire today? This year? Next year? Are you prepared?
• Does your workforce have the competencies required to meet the current/future challenges?
• Does your organizational design lead to redundancy?
• How diverse is your workforce compared to the surrounding community? HQMC? DoD?
• Is your workforce flexible enough to do more with less?

SWP can answer these questions and much more. It simply requires a commitment from all stakeholders, from the senior leader(s) to supervisors, from HR professionals to Manpower and Budget Analysts. This is a comprehensive approach to human resources management that will further enable your organization to have the right people in the right place at the right time to successfully accomplish the mission.

Due to changing economic conditions and policies throughout the Department of Defense, the Marine Corps is experiencing significant changes regarding its manpower and structure requirements. In order to meet these requirements while still accomplishing the mission, all Marine Corps organizations must strategically examine their workforce requirements and take effective action by using legal personnel practices and staying within budget limitations. SWP provides a means for appropriately meeting these requirements while ensuring that the right people are in the right place at the right time.

SWP is not just a dollars and numbers exercise. SWP helps bring to light various factors affecting mission accomplishment to help ensure organizations comprise a well-aligned, highly skilled, motivated, and diverse workforce that possesses appropriate competencies and developmental opportunities in order to accomplish their missions, regardless of the changes and challenges they may face.