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
