Strategic Workforce Planning: Defining and Fulfilling Business Requirements

Launch a sustainable strategic workforce planning process.By Mercer—now available through AMA Workforce planning is recognized by many organizations as an indispensable part of being competitive. It enables a company to analyze its future workforce needs against internal and external labor markets to identify potential shortfalls—and design interventions to fill the gaps. In this course, you will learn how to effectively launch a strategic workforce planning process and work toward achieving long-term success. You will identify the key steps and activities along the way. You’ll also learn how to determine who should own each step and be able to articulate their roles and responsibilities. This training will give you the skills you need to make your strategic workforce planning process a reality.

How You Will Benefit

• Learn how to effectively launch a strategic workforce planning process
• Practice and apply key activities that take place in each step of the process
• Discover the top 10 recommendations for a successful strategic workforce planning program
• Understand the key factors for building and phasing in workforce planning
• Get tools and resources to implement what you learned and create meaningful change

What You Will Cover

• Identifying the key steps in the strategic workforce planning process
• Learning how to analyze your current workforce and identify gaps against your future outlook
• Recognizing where and how to use analytics to support supply and demand analyses
• Learning the four levels in the maturity of workforce planning
• Deciding who should own each step of the workforce planning process and associated responsibilities
• Discovering solutions, identifying accountability and pinpointing success measures

Who Should Attend

HR analysts, managers, directors and vice presidents; HR business partners; IT, finance and business executives with close ties to HR.