Workforce planning:
Workforce planning is rapidly emerging as an essential activity for HR to engage in if it is to increase strategic contribution and drive talent and business outcomes. So how can HR practitioners start to derive the benefits of workforce planning in their own organisations?
The Workforce Planning course will provide the tools needed to analyse the workforce, develop a strategy to match demand for staff with the right people at the right time, and create a plan for talent management and retention.
Course benefits:
By the end of the Workforce Planning course you will be able to:
- Understand the key elements of HR strategy
- Apply a variety of techniques to workforce planning in practice
- Develop an action plan to improve the recruitment and retention of key talent
- Confidently participate in the business planning.
Content Areas:
- Exploring HR strategy
- Assessing organisations’ talent needs and clarifying strategic priorities
- Identifying opportunities for adding value
- Basics of workforce planning
- Demand planning
- Talent retention
- Supply planning
- Foundations for effective succession planning
- Succession planning methods
- Managing growth and decline
- The flexible organisation
- Constructing the workforce plan.