Course description
Organisations increasingly rely on their people professionals to carry out strategic workforce planning to respond to current and future challenges more effectively.
Through this course, you'll gain an understanding of how strategic workforce planning will enable your organisation to meet its goals. You'll learn the latest practices and data driven insights to determine and identify future demand and supply for people and skills.
Delivered by experts in workforce planning, the course will equip you with a practical introductory knowledge of strategic workforce planning that you can apply directly to your own workplace scenario. The programme provides both a theoretical and practical understanding of how to create your gap analysis between supply and demand. You'll also create and implement an Action Plan on the best way to close the gap, including how to identify potential challenges, improve productivity, target inefficiencies, and increase employee retention.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Is this course right for me?
If you're being tasked with how to deliver the right workforce and wish to conduct a gap analysis of workforce supply and demand, then this course is for you.
This course supports practical application of the fundamentals of strategic workforce planning and explores how to use insight and analysis to achieve your organisational goals.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
The objectives of this course are:
- what workforce planning is and the benefits for business
- the key elements of creating a &'Baseline' of what your organisation looks like, what is it trying to achieve and why
- how to determine workforce supply and demand, in order to conduct a gap analysis
- the components of an Action Plan to close the gap
- how to implement the Action Plan.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- create, implement and deliver a strategic workforce plan
- establish the baseline of what your organisation looks like, what it is trying to achieve and why
- determine workforce supply, the historical workforce trends and the forecast for the future
- assess demand, what drives it and the forecast for the future
- create your gap analysis between supply and demand
- create and implement an action plan to close the gap.
You’ll receive a Certificate of Attendance on completion.
Training Course Content
The course will cover the following topics:
- Introducing workforce planning
- Understanding the baseline
- Supply, demand and gap analysis
- Creating and delivering an Action Plan
Course delivery details
This course is delivered virtually over 1 day. It has 4 hours of facilitated online learning. Self-directed learning is recommended: estimated 1 hour before and 4 hours after the course.
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Course Price: £545.00 + VAT