Good Workforce Planning is Undoubtedly a Strategic Exercise isessentiallfor HR managers to think ahead and absorb the bigger picture. It's quite simply not enough to sit back and rest on laurels, because things happen, and even the best-paid, most content employees make life-changing decisions that might result in resignations that could threaten the business. At any given point, there should be a plan in action that has new people training to fill the shoes of their superiors. So if critical posts require in-house training of a two or three years, that's how far ahead saueast the HR people should be thinking and planning.