Strategic Workforce Planning: Transform Business Capability

09:30 - Welcome, introduction and outline of objectives
10:00 - Workforce planning for strategic and competitive advantage: how your workforce planning process can drive strategically focused organisational performance
· Positioning workforce planning within your organisation''s strategic framework: understanding what drives business success in your organisation and implications for the design of your process and gaining organisational engagement
· Internal and external data, and the workforce implications
· Forecasting business and talent scenarios, and how to manage change
· Workforce planning methodologies and models

11:30 - Coffee
11:45 - Designing an effective workforce planning process: links with other ''people'' initiatives
· Designing an effective workforce planning process, and its links to other HR practices
· Identifying and engaging the stakeholders
· Clarifying roles and responsibilities in workforce planning
· Exploration of case study experiences and research findings

12:30 - Lunch
13:30 - Implementing a strategic workforce planning process
· Translating the plan into action
· Communicating the process for maximum engagement
· Identifying risk factors in your organisation and priority needs to ensure success
· Exploration of case study experiences

15:00 - Tea
15:15 - Developing an evaluation and review of the workforce planning process: how to ensure your organisation gains maximum benefit from the process
· Identifying measurement and evaluation criteria
· Reviewing the learning and taking action

16:15 - Action planning: what next?
· Identifying your priority actions to be implemented on returning to work

16:30 - End of seminar