Workshop Overview
Strategic Workforce Planning is the business process for ensuring that an organization has suitable access to talent to ensure future business success. Planning for human resource needs is one of the greatest challenges facing managers and leaders. A consistent process that provides a disciplined approach for matching human resources with the anticipated needs of the company is essential.
In this 2-day workshop, the delegates shall learn how Workforce Planning serves as a planning tool and a basis for justifying budget allocation and workload staffing levels. The delegates will first build a business case for workforce planning and understand its importance as a key management activity. With various real world case studies from leading international organization, the delegates will know how to forecast the workforce demand and supply at both the enterprise and job family level. Using the workforce planning tools, the total cost of the workforce and its impact on total costs and organization profits can be projected. Quantifiable cost savings and productivity improvement opportunities showing a clear financial return on investment for (ROI) can be achieved too. Last but not least, the delegates will be able to develop and implement an actual workforce plan using sample data with step-by-step exercises which cover all key aspects of workforce planning.
Workshop Facilitator Profile
The course facilitator is presently the CEO of Human Capital Management Institute (HCMI), whereby he leads the organization to achieve global thought leadership in workforce analytics and planning. He is also actively involved in the development of advanced workforce analytics and planning consulting products, solutions and services as well as establishing partnerships with various organizations globally. He is a frequent speaker and presenter at HR events where he has show cased breakthrough predictive analytic and workforce planning tools with verifiable ROI cost savings, revenue increases, turnover reductions and productivity improvements.
His partial client list includes:
- Biosense-Webster Inc.
- American Express Inc.
- Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- Starbucks Corp.
- Google Inc.
- Nokia
- HSBC
- Qantas Airlines
- National Australia Bank
- BHP Billiton
- SAP AG.
- Hewitt Associates
- ConocoPhillips Inc.
- The Williams Companies Inc.
- Crosstex Energy Inc.
- Honeywell International Inc.
- Rohm & Haas co.
- Nike Inc.
- Dell Inc.
- Texas Instruments Inc.
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- US General Services Administration
- US Transportation Security Administration
Key Benefits for attending this course
- INTERACT and SHARE experiences with peers from some of the leading international companies in the world
- ESTABLISH the key elements of workforce planning, what questions it answers and problems it can solve (e.g. aging workforce, total cost of workforce, skill and talent shortages, strategic recruiting)
- BUILD a business case for workforce planning and LEARN the skills needed to execute advanced workforce planning for strategic data driven decision making
- FORECAST workforce demand and supply at both the enterprise and job family level
- ACCESS to real world case studies and best practices used by some of the world’s leading organizations
- IDENTIFY and QUANTIFY the future cost of HR and workforce decisions with workforce planning tools
- DEVELOP an actual workforce plan using sample data with step-by-step exercises which cover all key aspects of workforce planning
- MODEL complex workforce scenarios using historical workforce data and selected external market data sources
Who Should Attend
HR Managers | Directors | Presidents | Vice Presidents | General Managers | Heads and senior managers
from the division:
HR | Workforce Planning | Recruitment & Retention | Talent Management | Staffing & Competency | Organizational Development | Training and Development
