Build a future-ready workforce that delivers strategic results and protects long-term business performance.
The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook is an executive guide for senior HR leaders and board-level decision makers who need to ensure their workforce is designed, resourced and aligned to meet both current and future business demands. Written by workforce strategy expert David Edwards, this book shows senior leaders how to turn strategic workforce planning into a powerful lever for resilience, growth and risk mitigation.
With clear guidance on assessing your current workforce, identifying future capability needs and designing a robust workforce plan, this book equips leaders to make informed investment decisions, address critical talent risks and prepare their organizations for continuous change.
You'll learn how to:
- Translate business strategy into actionable workforce requirements
- Build executive alignment and secure stakeholder commitment
- Use data, technology and metrics to forecast demand and strengthen decision making
- Navigate internal politics, ethical considerations and D&I priorities in workforce planning
Covering everything from financial modeling and organization design to communicating change with confidence, The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook gives senior leaders a practical roadmap to build a workforce that delivers sustainable performance and long-term competitive advantage.
Themes include: strategic workforce planning, organization design, leadership, workforce analytics, risk mitigation, diversity and inclusion, future skills
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The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook
Design, Implement and Measure Workforce Plans to Drive Business Results
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eBook - ePub
The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook
Design, Implement and Measure Workforce Plans to Drive Business Results
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Table of contents
- List of figures and tables
- Foreword
- About the author
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART ONE Why it matters
- 01 Why I love doing this
- 02 And what do you do?
- 03 SWP is not a cure-all
- PART TWO How to practise it
- 04 The truth is out there – and it’s hidden in plain sight
- 05 Emotively captivating
- 06 Making friends with finance and benefits
- 07 Lining up the anseriformes, aka getting your ducks in a row
- 08 Turn and face the strange
- 09 Siren voices
- 10 What has SWP ever done for us? Part 1
- 11 What has SWP ever done for us? Part 2
- PART THREE How to land it
- 12 Politics – will the force be with you?
- 13 Strategy, scenarios, scale, scope… and Sheena
- 14 The challengeable orthodoxy of third parties, headcount and skills
- 15 TechNo
- PART FOUR Where it’s heading
- 16 Future perfect
- 17 A painful passion
- 18 Reflections
- Index
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