Course description
What is workforce planning in HR and how are workforce plans related to business and HR strategies? Boost your ability to respond to frequent changes by learning to use organisation design tools and techniques.
This short course is for people professionals who want to know how to deliver a workforce that responds to their organisation’s 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, this course will equip you with an introductory knowledge of workforce planning that you can apply to your workplace. You’ll learn how to conduct a gap analysis between employee supply and demand. You’ll also create and implement an action plan to close this gap. This will include identifying potential challenges, improving productivity, targeting inefficiencies, and increasing employee retention.
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Outcome / Qualification etc.
Learning Outcomes:
- explain what workforce planning is and how it benefits business
- create a ‘baseline’ of what your organisation looks like and what it is trying to achieve
- determine workforce supply and demand to conduct a gap analysis
- create and implement an action plan.
Training Course Content
- introducing workforce planning: what is workforce planning in HR?
- understanding the baseline
- supply, demand and gap analysis
- creating and delivering an action plan.
Course delivery details
This is a one-day course, delivered online.
We recommend you support your online learning with self-directed learning – this should take around one hour before and four hours after the course.
To ensure you get the most out of this course, we will ask you to complete a short questionnaire before the session. This will allow our experts to fully support you with your learning goals.
At the end of this course, you’ll receive a certificate.
Taking part in this course gives you access to the CIPD Learning Hub for 12 months. Here, you can access your course content together with other valuable resources and tools. When you finish your course, you can enjoy an additional 12 months of access to other resources on the Learning Hub.
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