Strategic Workforce Planning Programme

Human Resources

Introduction

Strategic Workforce Planning is an extension to the existing concepts of talent management but deals with the future planning of talent and fast pace of change that affects this.

At its core, it is about aligning the talent and business strategy and linking the planning, analysis and development of both. This strategic approach to talent planning is starting to occur in the global market and is gathering pace as the right solution for organisations who want to think about their talent in a more strategic way. Strategic workforce planning (SWP) involves proactively identifying your organisation's long-term business needs and developing an effective workforce plan to meet them. Yet despite its business-critical nature, many organisations do not understand the value of SWP or how to deliver it.

This course gives you the skills needed to lead in this area of organisational development. You will learn how to align your people resources with the organisation's business plan by getting the right people in the right place, at the right time, with the right skills.

Objectives

The Strategic Workforce Planning training coures is designed to enable learners to:

Understand the importance of workforce planning and the benefits to the business, the organisation 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 labour market context

Explore how workforce planning could work in their organisation

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 organisation

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 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 OUTLINE 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