Case Study

Workforce Readiness

Rockwood assesses, retools, and trains your people to maximize performance and agility so they can achieve the mission objectives and quickly respond to disruptions or unplanned changes that could otherwise threaten your operations, people, assets, and impact.

The Client

An office within the Department of the Air Force responsible for ensuring the Air Force maintains a competitive edge and is prepared to address future challenges effectively.

Client Challenge

The client engaged Rockwood to help enhance workforce readiness and establish a new organization in response to leadership changes and evolving operational priorities. The client required Rockwood’s expertise to build a cohesive leadership team aligned with a new mission, prepare the organization to adapt to changing mission functions, and make business operations more efficient.

Rockwood’s Approach

Rockwood executed the following approach: 

• Aligned senior leaders on an organizational mission.

• Conducted an in-depth analysis of current workforce skills, identifying critical skill gaps.

• Developed strategies to align workforce to operational priorities and prepare them for emerging threats.

• Mitigated potential risks with actionable recommendations on organizational partnerships and workforce readiness solutions.

• Identified and drafted workforce readiness strategy to convey the organization’s new mission and key functions to key stakeholders–internal teams, mission partners, industry, and Congress.

Results

The training needs assessment provided the client with the information and tools to deliver comprehensive and effective training to onboard 68 parent organizations and 100,000+ end users. Rockwood’s strategic support resulted in a 44% productivity improvement in the onboarding process.