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Strategic Workforce Planning - CIPD Learning Course

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Course Overview

In order to ensure the right people have the right skills at the right time, place and cost, workforce planning needs to be evidence-based. Featuring the use of interactive tools and techniques to run analyses across component elements of both demand and supply criteria, this programme provides good practice case studies on how these models work in practice.

Key Takeaways

1
Understand the relationship between business and people strategy
2
Assess and anticipate external market factors to mitigate people risks
3
Use the techniques and tactics applicable to workforce planning
4
Reflect on global best practice case studies across private and public sectors
5
Develop action plans to identify critical roles to improve recruitment and retention
6
Implement robust workforce plans

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Course Outline

DAY 1
Creating linkage between business and people strategies
• Exploring key concepts to anticipate and respond rapidly to change
• Clarity in a world of change
• Changing job roles and adapting to different working arrangements
Obtaining buy-in
• Proposals and solutions for evidenced-based and pragmatic solutions
• From concept to actionable workforce planning
• Gaining buy-in from key influencers to deliver business value
Basics of workforce planning
• Interactive workforce strategy – changing dynamics of labour demand and supply
• Understanding areas which you have control and areas where you do not
• Mitigating risk – likely attrition, difficulty to recruit, cost-benefit analysis of development
The flexible organisation
Best practice research / case studies into how organisations are dealing with disruption
• Organisation structures blending with external partners
• Pinpoint critical or key roles and their future digital needs
Linkage and integration of HR interventions
• People analytics
• Organisation design and effectiveness
• Workforce rightsizing
• Spotting potential / Succession planning
DAY 2
Collate data inputs within your organisation
• Review of required data collation
• Identification of business sponsors / stakeholder
Identify tools required to carry out workforce planning
• Using excel as a starting point
• What can HRIS systems do in SWP?
• How to utilise best-in-class add-ons
Understand demand planning and workforce analytics
• Case studies and exercises
• What data do we really need?
• Trend and shape analyses
Building holistic models
• How people analytics has evolved to become a guiding force
• Critiquing business plans from a people perspective (stresstesting)
• Case study
Creating governance
• Setting out ground rules
• Start date for analysis – avoiding moving targets
• Moratorium on role / people changes
• Playback and agreement
DAY 3
Employee engagement and talent retention
• Exercise in measuring attrition and improving retention
Addressing diversity and inclusion
• Beyond words – analysing the facts
Supply planning
• Understanding the labour market and unexploited sources of talent
• Case study – sourcing scarce talent
Strategic Workforce Planning
• Creating your model
• Templates / reports / challenge and consulting
• Creating the story…interpreting the insights
Creating integrated strategic HR interventions
• Succession planning and talent reviews
• Assessing potential
• High impact recruitment
• Active employee engagement
Implementing the workforce plan
• Templates for implementation and action plans
• Pulse checks
• Dashboards for monitoring

Who Should Attend?

This highly practical and interactive course has been specifically designed for
This course is best suited to HR professionals with a basic understanding of workforce planning, looking to build on their skills.

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