Workforce Planning:  An Approach to Addressing Tomorrow’s Challenges Today!

This course provides an introduction to Workforce Planning and integrates the principles of workforce planning into organizational efforts to mitigate the impact of the looming challenge for which many organizations need to prepare:  the huge talent and successor crisis that an aging workforce will bring in the next three to eight years.  Discussion and class exercises will review a variety of Workforce Planning strategies that cross a number of human resource functions, including recruitment, selection, and retention, classification, training and development, and performance management.  This course will explain the process of the workforce planning and how the results can be used to identify workforce needs, assess current workforce skills/competencies, and design strategies to mitigate any identified gaps.  This course is designed for individuals new to the world of workforce planning.