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Part of Strategic Planning concerns Capabilities Development Planning, and part of that is Workforce Planning.  The resultant Workforce Plan encompasses a range of policies and strategies designed to ensure that the organisation has the ‘knowledge, skills, and abilities’ required now and in the future.  In order to have those in place, the plan must also address the ‘people’ side, since it is people who have or will have, the knowledge, skills and abilities needed by the organisation.  The Workforce Plan therefore needs to describe how the organisation will manage, support and develop its current and future workforce and deal with issues of recruitment, retention and performance management.

Changing demographics mean that Workforce Plan policies and actions will need to address very different strategies for Generation X and Y, for example, as against baby boomers near retirement.  A Workforce Plan should consider the opportunities as well as the threats in human resource planning and management.

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Finally, a Workforce Plan must include performance measures of a kind that will indicate implementation effectiveness and inform the next Strategic Planning cycle. 

Workforce Planning is a complex process.

How Deltapoint can help

• King Hit Workshop on Workforce Planning – a great place to start - for your executive group or planning committee that is charged with the development of a Workforce Plan – either initiating the planning process, or reviewing an existing Workforce Plan.  This introductory workshop builds on empirical research into organisational capability building and combines theory with examples of national and international good practice.  The workshop is designed to support the development of an action plan to start the Workforce Planning process in your organisation.  The Workshop can be facilitated in your own training room.
  
   
• Action Learning Program – making it happen – we can work in partnership with your Workforce Planning group to develop a comprehensive Workforce Planning process  that addresses both your current and future Workforce needs.  We bring a research-based and tested body of knowledge to combine with your organisational experience.  Based on action learning principles, this program is designed to enable knowledge transfer to your staff, so the skills for Workforce Planning stay in your organisation and are applied.  This program is the option for you if you are serious about developing your people and incrementally reviewing and updating your Workforce Plan.