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HRM-2165 | Strategic Workforce Planning

Course Sector : HR Strategy and Training

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5 Days2025-06-012025-06-05Online$2,150 Book now
5 Days2025-07-142025-07-18London$4,950 Book now
5 Days2025-08-042025-08-08London$4,950 Book now
5 Days2025-12-082025-12-12Dubai$4,250 Book now

Course Introduction

Workforce Planning is now a critical factor in the longer-term ability of International Business to compete globally.. It is now seen as a key business requirement, organisations must have a clear strategy, to support the Workforce Planning process, we will discuss a number of real-life strategies and approaches. Having a clear strategy will enable informed decisions to be made to achieve a balanced approach, how to assess and when to develop current staff or, actively recruiting external candidates into the company to satisfy future requirements.


Course objective

  • Understand how to predict and therefore manage future trends
  • Consider the balance between managing individuals’ careers and business needs
  • Appreciate the relationship between operational and human resource management
  • Be able to use the most appropriate approach to your business workforce planning process
  • Develop your process management skills to maximize the use of resources
  • Learn and be able to implement new dynamic workforce planning systems
  • Consider several strategic models for workforce planning
  • Be able to convert predictive data into a monetary value
  • Re-energize interviewing, appraisal processes and systems
  • Create a methodology to present business information effectively
  • Be aware of organizational measurement tools and those that can be applied to individuals
  • Develop business techniques to manage the workforce planning process
  • Plan and implement action plans for self and individuals/managers involved in the Workforce Planning process

Course Outline | DAY 01

The dynamic role of workforce planning
  • Introductions, programme, objectives and ways of working
  • HR models and how to satisfy potential future organisational structures
  • The growing business importance of HR workforce planning (HRMP)
  • The changing shape of organisations and work requirements – the effects on today’s organisation
  • Trends – right sizing; what’s appropriate – use of decision making tools and examples
  • The four main areas of workforce planning – Strategic focus, Data and analysis, workforce planning and people development including case study

Course Outline | Day 02

The strategic focus on workforce planning from first principals
  • The new HR strategic map
  • How to use a strategic template – exercise and case study
  • Measuring organisational maturity – a trigger for workforce planning activities – exercise
  • Converting strategy into workable plans, the collection and analysis of business data to trigger appropriate action – including exercise
  • Techniques for delivering on time and on budget

Course Outline | Day 03

Workforce, forecasting and trend analysis
  • Understanding trends – examples and exercise
  • Use of predictive software to support the supply of workforce
  • How to measure relationships and understand results – exercises
  • The need for using unit costs – exercise
  • Individual measurements, exactly how competencies are structured
  • Managing expectations and individual’s needs
  • Measuring and forecasting individuals performance using behavioral techniques

Course Outline | Day 04

Workforce supply – Business planning and workforce re- engineering

  • Selecting the “right” principal for workforce supply
  • Consider the three approaches to succession planning
  • The use of pre selection for key posts – the role of psychometric testing, emotional intelligence assessment centre’s, agreements and visual development maps
  • Business review – why workforce planning should be considered and where it has an impact – including case study

Course Outline | Day 05

Making the Workforce planning process fit together to maximize results
  • The use of management tools and techniques to achieve maximum effect
  • Why performance appraisals on their own don’t work for selection into development pools
  • Three approaches, talent pool, individual selection and head hunting
  • The cooperation needed in order to achieve the business benefits
  • How the whole workforce planning process should ‘fit’ together
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