Workforce Planning Basics

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About Course

Workforce planning is about having the right number of people with the right skills in the right place, at the right time and the right cost. This course walks through the CIPD’s stages: analysing your current workforce, forecasting demand, finding gaps, taking action and reviewing, with simple tools any manager can use.

This course gives general good-practice guidance and is not legal advice. Take advice before restructuring or making redundancies.

What Will You Learn?

  • Understand the purpose and stages of workforce planning
  • Analyse your current workforce with useful data
  • Forecast future needs using scenarios
  • Close gaps through build, buy, borrow and redeploy options

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • What workforce planning is
  • Analysing supply and demand
  • Closing gaps and reviewing

Sources & Further Reading
The official guidance this course is based on.

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