Strategic Workforce Planning
A practical professional development programme focused on strategic workforce planning, designed to strengthen people capability and organisational performance.
- Type
- Professional
- Level
- Advanced
- Duration
- 5 days
- Delivery
- In person, Live online, In-house
- Languages
- English, Arabic
Strategic Workforce Planning develops the ability to anticipate future workforce requirements and align people capacity with organisational strategy.
Participants examine demand, supply, workforce gaps, critical roles, capability requirements and alternative workforce strategies. The programme connects workforce planning with strategic planning, financial considerations, talent management and organisational risk.
The emphasis is on making informed workforce decisions before capability shortages or surpluses become operational problems.
Objectives
Understand strategic workforce planning and its organisational value.
Translate strategic plans into future workforce requirements.
Assess internal and external workforce supply.
Identify workforce gaps and risks.
Develop practical workforce strategies and implementation priorities.
Learning outcomes
Develop a structured workforce-planning process.
Estimate future workforce demand using organisational assumptions.
Assess workforce supply, capacity and capability.
Identify quantitative and qualitative workforce gaps.
Develop strategies to address priority workforce risks.
Who it is for
Workforce-planning professionals.
HR managers and HR business partners.
Talent and succession professionals.
Strategy and organisational-planning professionals.
Managers responsible for future workforce capability.
Programme modules
1. Strategic Workforce Planning Foundations
Purpose of workforce planning
Strategic alignment
Planning horizons
Workforce risks
2. Workforce Demand
Business and service requirements
Future roles and capabilities
Demand drivers
Demand scenarios
3. Workforce Supply
Current workforce profile
Skills and capability inventory
Turnover and retirement
External labour markets
4. Gap and Risk Analysis
Headcount gaps
Capability gaps
Critical-role risks
Workforce vulnerability
5. Workforce Strategies
Build, buy, borrow and automate
Reskilling and redeployment
Recruitment and retention
Contingency options
6. Implementation and Governance
Workforce-planning roadmaps
Ownership
Monitoring workforce indicators
Refreshing assumptions
Methodology
The programme combines workforce-planning frameworks, data exercises, scenario analysis and practical workforce-strategy development. Participants apply methods to realistic organisational assumptions and workforce challenges.
Assessment
Participants complete workforce demand, supply and gap analyses and develop a strategic workforce plan addressing priority risks and capability requirements.
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
For your organisation
This programme can be delivered for a single organisation, team or institution, and adapted to your context, participants and objectives.
Organisational delivery is scoped and priced individually, and is not booked from this page.
Upcoming sessions
No dates are scheduled at present.
Institutional needs addressed
Related expertise
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Structured professional learning that develops practical, role-relevant knowledge and capability.
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Consulting & Advisory
Structured advisory support for strategy, governance, performance, transformation and organisational decision-making.