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Human Resources: Strategic Workforce Planning

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Overview

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Get an overview of strategic workforce planning (SWP). Learn why SWP is critical to the success of an organization and how HR professionals can craft an effective plan.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Understanding Strategic Workforce Planning
  • What is strategic workforce planning (SWP)?
  • The modern approach to SWP
  • How business planning horizons affect SWP
  • How does SWP deliver value?
2. Getting Started
  • Key assumptions and elements of an SWP system
  • Environmental scanning
  • Build a talent inventory
  • Forecast internal and external workforce supply
  • Forecast workforce demand
  • Integrate forecasts of workforce supply and demand
  • Execution and evaluation of SWP systems
3. Succession Planning
  • Leadership succession: The concept of workforce readiness
  • Alternative approaches to leadership succession
  • Should leadership succession plans be secret?
  • Succession planning in small businesses
4. Managing Strategic Workforce Planning
  • SWP and global talent management systems
  • Who owns talent development?
  • Put it all together: Essential features of an SWP system
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Wayne Cascio

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