Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
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
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
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
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
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
