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"Excellent. Very thought-provoking. Linkage of workforce planning to business plan/HR strategy/career management/HR initiatives. Very interesting."
"Excellent workshop, very professional presenter - learned a lot. Very good content and was taught in a logical sequence. Well packaged."
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"A fantastic workshop that applied good, solid and thorough processes and methodology to a subject that is largely misunderstood"
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San Francisco, CA: May 20-21
Nashville, TN: Jun 3-4
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London: 1-3 Dec
WORKFORCE PLANNING
Growing your expertise and skills to ensure the delivery of your organisational strategy
Carrying out the right actions for an organisation’s workforce today ensures that employers have the right workforce for their future delivery on organisational strategy. With over 25 years workforce planning experience, Infohrm has the expertise to give HR teams the expertise and skills to plan their workforce future.
Delegates will be able to:
- Design appropriate workforce planning processes
- Integrate workforce planning with corporate planning
- Use scenarios in workforce planning
- Make practical demand and supply forecasts
- Use a variety of modelling techniques in demand forecasting
- Forecast workforce profiles based on age, voluntary terminations, hires, transfers, and promotions
- Integrate workforce planning with performance management, career management, organisational learning, recruitment and selection, and organisational design
- Support managers implement effective workforce planning and resultant strategies
- Educate management on next steps including project planning, roll out, and positioning
So what is in the program?
Introduction
- What workforce planning is, and what workforce planning is not
- Infohrm’s workforce planning framework
Align With the Business
- Link workforce planning with corporate planning and business strategy
- Understand key challenges with workforce planning
Step 1: Scenarios
- Understand environmental scanning and business context
- Develop alternative futures through scenarios
Step 2: Demand Forecasting
- Identify critical job roles
- Use quantitative demand techniques
- Use qualitative demand techniques
- Understand future skills and capabilities
Step 3: Supply Forecasting
- Segment the workforce
- Understand the current workforce
- Model the future workforce
- Identify sources of supply data
Step 4: Identify Gaps and Develop Strategies
- Gap analysis to identify risks
- Risk assessment
- Framework of strategy development
- Succession planning and career paths
Action Planning
Making workforce planning work:
- Project planning
- Project management
- Change and communication strategy
This course can be run as a two or three day course depending on learning requirements.
Download the registration form for the Workforce Planning workshop
Contact Infohrm for more information on +61 (0)7 3320 3200, or .
Carrying out the right actions for your workforce today will ensure that employers have the right workforce for their future delivery on organisational strategy. With over 25 years workforce planning experience, Infohrm has the expertise to give HR teams the expertise and skills to plan their workforce future.
Delegates will be able to:
- Design appropriate workforce planning processes
- Integrate workforce planning with corporate planning
- Use scenarios in workforce planning
- Make practical demand and supply forecasts
- Use a variety of modelling techniques in demand forecasting
- Forecast workforce profiles based on age, voluntary terminations, hires, transfers, and promotions
- Integrate workforce planning with performance management, career management, organisational learning, recruitment and selection, and organisational design
- Support managers in implementing effective workforce planning and resultant strategies
- Educate management on next steps including project planning, roll out, and positioning
Case study
Delegates work through a detailed case study over the three days to ensure the direct transfer of skills and information and gain relevant practical experience.
Benefits
- Using scenarios in planning future workforce needs
- Aligning the workforce with business strategy
- Identifying today’s HR implication of future staffing requirements
- Techniques for forecasting future workforce needs
- Systematically understand and tackle aging workforce and “talent war” issues
- An approach to embedding a workforce planning process
Features
Building on over 25 years of experience and extensive research, this workshop covers core workforce planning techniques including demand and supply forecasting, succession planning, forecasting competency profiles, and the integration of workforce planning with other people management functional areas.
This workshop includes a strategic framework for HR planning, of which workforce planning is a component. It facilitates the development of practical skills in workforce planning through the use of a comprehensive Australian–based case study and Infohrm’s four step methodology.
As part of our professional commitment to quality we offer a satisfaction guarantee. If, at the end of the first day, you feel the workshop is not adding value for your organization, simply let us know and we will credit your registration fee to any other program or service offered by Infohrm.
- Design the workforce planning system most appropriate to their organization
- Integrate workforce planning with corporate planning
- Make practical and responsive demand and supply forecasts that make full use of management’s experience and judgment
- Incorporate workforce planning as an ongoing process, linked to strategic and business planning processes
- Bring line managers on board and help them to assess their workforce needs
- Support managers in implementing effective workforce planning and intervention strategies
- Integrate workforce planning with performance management, career management, organizational learning, HRIS, recruitment and selection and organizational design
- Identify the HR management reports required to support workforce planning
- Use scenarios in workforce planning
- Forecast turnover and retirements
Dates and Times
- February 4-5: Los Angeles, CA
- April 29-30: Philadelphia, PA
- May 20-21: San Francisco, CA
- June 3-4: Nashville, TN
Program Outline
- Workforce Planning Framework – This section builds a common definition in workforce planning, helps participants build internal support, links workforce planning with strategic planning, defines roles and responsibilities, and examines key challenges in workforce planning.
- Scenarios – Introduces the use of alternate scenarios and teaches the development process.
- Demand Forecasting – Participants will learn to identify critical job roles and practice quantitative and qualitative methods for forecasting. Both skills and numbers will be addressed.
- Supply Forecasting – Covers three areas of supply: internal analysis, external analysis, and forecasting the future workforce
- Strategy Development – This session will look at gap analysis and workforce strategy development.
- Getting to Action and Making it Happen – Presents project management, project planning, and the change and communication strategy.
Standard registration fees
| Number of Days | Per Person | Per Infohrm Member |
|---|---|---|
| 2 day workshop | $2100 | $1800 |
Workshop fees include: tuition, workbook, lunch and refreshments.
- Register online for the Workforce Planning Workshop at our secure registration website, where you can complete your registration and pay by credit card.
| number of days | 1-2 delegates | 3+ delegates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| per person | per Infohrm member delegate |
per person | per Infohrm member delegate |
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| 3 day workshop | $1980 | $1800 | $1800 | $1650 |
Prices include GST. Workshop fees include: tuition, workbook, lunch and refreshments.
| 1-2 delegates: | |
|---|---|
| per person | £1290 |
| per Infohrm member delegate | £1160 |
| 3+ delegates: | |
| per person | £1160 |
| per Infohrm member delegate | £1160 |
Prices do not include VAT. Workshop fees include: tuition, workbook, lunch and refreshments.