Workshop: Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP), Global

Mercer’s learning workshop supports HR teams to:

• Gain a common understanding of the practical benefits and applications of strategic workforce planning.
• Apply proven methodology, frameworks and tools to design and deliver strategic workforce plans with business impact.
• Develop critical capabilities to enable evidence-based workforce planning and storytelling to support strategic alignment and decision making.

To be nimble and stay competitive in the current skills market, you need a well-crafted organisational structure. Learn to design an effective talent model that helps your business adapt to a dynamic world and tap into new opportunities.

This workshop is a ready-to-run session for your company’s HRBPs and senior HR colleagues that can be customised to fit your own context making the learning more relevant and engaging.

Delivery options – either in-person, or virtual

Part 1 – Align Vision

• Understand the SWP methodology and process
• Framing critical questions using quantitative and qualitative data
• Learning application through a case study

Part 2 – Define Futures

• Understand the key parameters underpinning forecasting and scenarios
• Determine demand drivers and conduct workforce gap analysis
• Opportunities and challenges - applying a skills lens
• Learning application through a case study

Part 3 – Determine Strategies

• Develop future focused strategies and scenarios related to work, workforce and workplace
• How to prioritise workforce strategies
• Learning application through a case study

Part 4 – Design Solutions and Drive Impact

• Required resources, timelines and success metrics that ensure successful implementations, ongoing measurement and monitoring
• Articulate a business and benefits case to senior leadership
• Practical case study using the SWP methodology