Course description
This course has been created to help people professionals respond to the increasing demand for strategic workforce planning. You will explore how to plan for and anticipate the changing demands on resource within your organisation.
You'll increase your knowledge of strategic workforce planning and how to conduct a gap analysis to identify what areas need to be closed through effective resourcing.
Aligned to the Profession Map, this course is designed and delivered for CIPD by leading subject matter experts as a practical, interactive, virtual classroom to small groups.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Is this course right for me?
This course is most suitable for generalists within the people profession, and anyone being tasked with workforce planning who is looking to gain fundamental knowledge into this practice.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
As part of this course, you will:
- define what workforce planning is and the benefits for your business
- identify the 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’ and explore how to conduct a ‘Gap Analysis’
- develop the components of an ‘Action Plan’ to close the gap
- discover how to ‘Deliver’ the right workforce
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- implement and deliver on the outputs of a strategic workforce plan
- describe the baseline of what your organisation looks like, what it is trying to achieve and why
- determine ‘Supply’, the historical workforce trends and what the forecast for the future is
- assess ‘Demand’, what drives it and what the forecast for the future is
- create your ‘Gap Analysis’ between supply and demand
- create and implement an action plan on the best way to close the gap.
Training Course Content
This one day, face to face course will cover the following modules:
- Introducing workforce planning
- Baseline
- Supply, demand and gap analysis
- Action plan and deliver
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Expenses
Course Price: £600.00 + VAT