Workforce Planning Live Simulcast Online Course

Area of Interest: Government Leadership | Business and Project Management

Course Summary

Find out how workforce planning can maximise workforce efficiency and help your organisation to achieve their goals. In this course you’ll be guided through the process of developing and implementing a workforce plan. You’ll discover why organisations need workforce plans, how they enable organisations to achieve long-term objectives, and how workforce planning can become a continuous process that aligns to your organisation’s strategy and business planning.

You’ll learn how to examine external operating environments, analyse current and future workforce supply and demand, identify risks and opportunities, and create, implement and monitor workforce plans. At the end of this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge needed to develop, implement and monitor your own workforce plans, and ensure your organisation has the right people, with the right skills at the right time.

Duration: 1 Day

Delivery Mode: Online

Course Content

• Linking the organisational strategy to the workforce plan.
• Understanding the environment.
• Segmenting the workforce.
• Analysing the current and future state.
• Identifying risks and opportunities.
• Creating an action plan.
• Implementing the workforce plan.
• Monitoring the workforce plan

Who should attend

The course is valuable for HR professionals and managers in organisations of all sizes. The course is designed for those who have responsibility for developing and implementing workforce plans, as well as managers who will guide this work and align it to their organisational objectives.

No academic or technical knowledge is required.

What will you receive

• Comprehensive set of course notes
• UNSW Canberra certificate of attendance
• Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite for this course

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Instructors

Tess Walton

Tess Walton is a human capital strategist, practising futurist and strategic workforce planning practitioner that has been working with organisations to ready their workforce for the future. Tess' Strategic Workforce Planning methodology has won an Australian HR Institute Leadership Award, and is the premise of the Human Capital Institute Strategic Workforce Planning Certification program (the only certification in this space).

In her 15 years + experience in this field Tess has been engaged by many leading organisations globally to develop their workforce planning processes and metrics – including Aetna Health, ANZ Banking Group, AQIS, Australia Post, Australian Unity, Bupa, KPMG/BearingPoint, Deakin University, KiwiBank, Lendlease , Melbourne Children’s Hospital, Mining Industry Skills Centre, NSW Auditor General’s Office, NZ Inland Revenue, NZ Post, State Services Commission, NZ Transport Agency, NZ Customs, Toyota, Starbucks, Stockland, and Westpac.