Course description
Set the scene for success by developing your workforce planning expertise and skills. This course teaches you to plan for future workforce needs and how to align people planning with business strategy.
As one of our strategic workforce planning courses, this programme is for people professionals who already understand the concept of workforce planning and those who want to advance their expertise. You will learn to forecast talent supply and segment data to make informed decisions. This workforce planning training is delivered by leading experts in strategic workforce planning and is aligned with the CIPD Profession Map. It takes an evidence-based approach and uses case studies of strategic workforce planning models.
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Learning Outcomes
- identify insights from strategic workforce planning and baseline your organisation
- model and forecast changes to supply and demand
- conduct a gap analysis
- create and execute an action plan to deliver the right workforce.
Training Course Content
- business acumen, corporate strategies and strategic workforce planning (SWP)
- stakeholder management
- data and assumptions in strategic workforce planning
- workforce segmentation and business-critical roles
- internal and external talent supply
- qualitative and quantitative demand factors
- gap analysis
- workforce planning levers, cost-benefit analysis, and demand optimisation
- talent management
- action and contingency planning.
Course delivery details
This workforce planning training course has four online learning sessions delivered over four weeks. Each learning session is three hours long. The course includes self-directed learning on executing the plan and adaptive planning. We encourage you to participate in peer learning and preparation work such as pre-reading, MOST Analysis exercise, SWP maturity questionnaire and data sets. You should allow for 10 hours of learning over the duration of the course.
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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