Overview

Workforce Planning is the process of analysing, forecasting, and planning workforce supply and demand, assessing gaps, and determining target talent management interventions to ensure that an organization has the right people – with the right skills in the right places at the right time – to fulfil its mandate and strategic objectives.

With your staff effectively and strategically managed, your business will have the right staff working in the right place at the right time, so productivity soars. Workforce planning is so important because it makes everyone from management to staff look to the future, for themselves and for the business.

At the end of training Course, you will learn to:

• Apply appropriate workforce planning tools and techniques to your business strategy
• Review your own practices and make appropriate changes
• Think both strategically and tactically to enable effective workforce planning
• Understand the core HR components of modern workforce planning to ensure alignment
• Overcome challenges to effective workforce planning and build on enablers
• Apply good ideas from colleagues from other organisations

Who is the Strategic Workforce Planning Course for?

• All HR managers and senior HR professionals
• Business leaders trying to understand how to better articulate the “how to” of strategy to key stakeholder groups, and what people actions need to be addressed
• Partners involved in supplying against this need – Resourcing, Talent and succession, L&D and HR business partners (either at ‘Head of’ or practitioner level)
• Those tasked with business planning, budgeting or organisational development objectives.

Course Content

Day 1

• The Current Position with Workforce Planning
• Why strategic workforce planning is needed?
• When workforce planning works well – what are the benefits? What do you do now, in your organisation?
• Scope and level of workforce planning
• A working model of workforce planning
• Data models, sources of data for workforce planning and statistics
• Planning data capture and embedding sources of information

Day 2

• The links between workforce planning and strategic business objectives
• Tools and techniques for analysing current demand
• Tools and techniques for analysing future demand
• Analysing current workforce supply
• Finding future workforce supply
• Understanding and Managing the Implications of Strategic Roles
• Segmenting the Workforce
• Managing the Implications of Segmentation

Day 3

• From plans to actions – organisational plans to close gaps
• Building a Workforce Plan
• Action planning – making a difference to your organisation
• Assessment time
• Planning time – how you will embed workforce planning in your organisation

Day 4

• Challenges and Enablers for Effective Workforce Planning
• Review of Contemporary Learning by Organisations in Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning
• Applying the 6B Model to Realise Organizational Strategy
• Reasons Why Strategic Workforce Planning Fails
• Introducing Strategic Workforce Planning is an Exercise in Change Management

Day 5

• Bringing all the Aspects of Strategic Workplace Planning Together
• Translating the Theory to Practice – Action Learning Set(s) – facilitator – led session sharing challenges and suggesting solutions
• Creating a Collaborative Cross-functional Approach to Workforce Planning
• Summary of Key Messages from Effective Workforce Planning Practices
• Summary of Key Learning from Delegates during the Week
• Action Planning