Strategic Workforce Planning Programme
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Strategic Workforce Planning Programme Course
Introduction:
Strategic Workforce Planning goes beyond conventional talent management concepts by focusing on the future planning of talent in the face of rapid and dynamic changes.
Essentially, it involves aligning talent strategy with business strategy and integrating the planning, analysis, and development of both. This strategic approach to talent planning is gaining momentum in the global market, emerging as the preferred solution for organizations aiming to adopt a more strategic perspective on managing their talent.
Course Objectives:
The Strategic Workforce Planning training course is designed to enable learners to:
- Understand the importance of workforce planning and the benefits to the business, the organization, and its goals
- Understand the steps in the workforce planning process
- Apply simple statistical and research methods for workforce analysis and identify the links between business demand forecasts and workforce supply needs
- Understand their labor market context
- Explore how workforce planning could work in their organization
- Identify the links between workforce planning and other HR strategies, tools, and technologies (e.g. talent management strategies, recruitment, retention, etc.)
- Plan the identification and collation of workforce planning data for their organization
Who Should Attend?
This Strategic Workforce Planning Course is ideal for
- 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's 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 organizational development objectives.
Course Outlines:
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 organization?
- 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 analyzing current demand
- Tools and techniques for analyzing future demand
- Analyzing 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
- organizational plans to close gaps
- Building a Workforce Plan
- Action planning – making a difference to your organization
- Assessment time
- Planning time – how you will embed workforce planning in your organization
Challenges and Enablers for Effective Workforce Planning
- Review of Contemporary Learning by Organizations in Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning
- Applying the 6B Model to Realize 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