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Strategic Workforce Planning for People Professionals
Overview
Gain a comprehensive baseline knowledge of strategic workforce planning that you can apply in the workplace.
Details
Strategic workforce planning is a key component in creating better work and working lives, and understanding strategic workforce planning is a requirement for all people professionals. Through completing this course learners will be able to support their organisations through ensuring a full understanding is gained of the current workforce and then conducting a gap analysis to identify what areas need to be closed through delivering the right people in the right roles at the right time. This is a core part of the role of people professionals in enabling their organisations to meet their goals.
Objectives
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- understand what workforce planning is and explore how it benefits the business
- identify key elements of creating a 'baseline' of what your organisation looks like, what it is trying to achieve and why?
- determine the workforce 'supply' and 'demand', in order to conduct a 'gap analysis'
- explore how to 'deliver' the right workforce.
Who is it for
This course is most suitable for generalists within the field of HR and anyone being tasked with workforce planning who is looking to gain fundamental knowledge into this practice.
Benefits
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- implement and 'deliver' on the outputs of a strategic workforce plan
- understand the 'baseline' of what your organisation looks like, what is it trying to achieve and why?
- determine 'supply', the historical workforce trends and what is the forecast for the future
- assess 'demand', what drives it and what is the forecast for the future
- create your 'gap analysis' between supply and demand
- create and implement an 'action plan' on the best way to close the gap.
This course is designed and delivered by subject matter experts in the field of strategic workforce planning. It aligns across areas of the CIPD profession map. It also offers comprehensive baseline knowledge of strategic workforce planning to take back to your workplace. This course is delivered by interactive virtual classroom in small groups.
Before you start this course, it’s important that you consider the following questions:
- How do your personal objectives align to the course objectives?
- How will the course objectives enable you to perform better at work?
- What outcomes do you want from this course? (For example - learn new insights, find out the CIPD's view, confirm my thinking, challenge my own point of view, increase effectiveness at work etc.)
Run this programme in-house
This course can also be provided in house. You choose where and when you want our trainers to deliver. We can also tailor the programme to suit your precise organisation needs. To speak to our customer services team about your particular requirements, call us on +44 (0)20 8612 6202, or request a call back.Programme
This programme will consist of four one-hour interactive virtual classroom sessions, covering the following topics:
Session 1: Introducing workforce planning
- importance of strategic workforce planning
- three levels of the organisation
- seven rights of workforce planning
- three horizons of workforce planning
- six-stage methodology.
Session 2: Baseline
- MOST analysis
- environmental scanning
- collecting data
- capability segmentation
Session 3: Supply, demand and gap analysis
- recap on critical roles
- calculating organisational churn
- skills in 2022
- what is demand?
- demand types
- gap analysis.
Session 4: Action plan and deliver
- workforce planning levers
- optimising demand
- talent management
- delivering the plan.
Book now
Please click on the ‘Check available dates’ button to view programme dates, prices and to book your place.
- You can book up to 4 delegates on one date through the online booking process. For more than 4 delegates please call our Customer Services team on +44 20 8612 6202 to discuss in-house training options
- If you prefer to complete a paper booking form to book your place on this programme please download the booking form here and email it to eventsregistrar@cipd.co.uk
- If you prefer to complete a paper booking form and you need to book more than one delegate on one date, please complete one paper booking form per delegate. For more than 4 delegates please call our Customer Services team on +44 20 8612 6202 to discuss in-house training options
- If you book onto a course that is formed by more than one module, please specify a course start date when booking and you'll be automatically booked onto all other module dates that form that specific cohort. All cohort dates are displayed above for your information
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If you are a CIPD member please use your membership number and preferred email address registered with CIPD when booking in order to receive your membership discount
Please note it is your responsibility to attend all the elements of the course programme and there is no alternate date or recordings available for any missed event.
Access by, or viewing of, a webinar by any person who has not registered and paid for the programme is not permitted. Please do not share your invitation link or password with anyone else as this could jeopardise your place and will result in the webinar host rejecting uninvited attendees.
Fees
Member £495 + VAT (£594)
Non-member £545 + VAT (£654)