Strategic workforce planning is a systematic approach to ensuring workforce capabilities are available to deliver business priorities. The approach runs alongside other regular business activities such as those related to finance and budgets, business strategy and operational planning and change programs. More than ever, our complex and rapidly changing environment necessitates a proactive approach to using evidence-based insights that will strengthen and prepare a workforce for the future.
Participants will be presented with a comprehensive overview of workforce planning principles and practices that shape and align workforce capabilities to business needs.
Course Content
- The business case for workforce planning
- Identifying sources of internal and external evidence to inform workforce planning
- Organising a systematic approach:
- national standards, principles and insightful practice foundations
- stakeholder engagement and communications
- essential process stages, including risk management, forecasting workforce gaps
- Monitoring and evaluation
Activities
- Participate in discussions related to workforce planning examples and related activities.
- Review and apply examples to understand principled themes and processes.
- Read and critique examples of workforce planning strategies.
Course Outcomes
By the end of this course participants should be able to:
- Understand the business imperatives for strategic workforce planning.
- Identify the principles and primary process stages that underpin workforce planning.
- Identify internal and external data sources and recognise their importance for evidence-based storytelling insights to influence stakeholders.
Benefits to the organisation
- Your agency will be able to realise a basic workforce plan to inform what workforce capabilities are needed to align with business outcome priorities now and into the future.
- Our agency can better anticipate workforce development interventions needed to match business delivery needs.
