Human Resources managers and senior professionals, specialists, team leaders, and business partners in the function who seek to broaden their knowledge and improve their skills in the key functions of HR as well as those who are responsible for evaluating HR and its effectiveness in the organization. The course is also suitable for those employees who are targeted for development or promotion within the HR function.
Course Outline
DAY 1: From Strategy to Organisational Design and Working Ratios
Introductions and Course Objectives
The key difference between Manpower planning and New Workforce Planning
The importance of a strategic approach in workforce planning
The use of the Organisational Maturity tool
The critical inputs of workforce planning
How organisations are designed
The current types of organizational design
Innovations in reporting ratios – what the future holds
DAY 2: Our Role in Organisational Productivity
What is productivity
Collecting the information (you already do this) but some thing extra
Understanding the ingredients – Competency and how to measure it
Understanding and measurement of productivity information
Reliability – what is it? How to measure and improve it
Measurement of reliability – new tools – great results
The value of time and people – essential calculations and information
The value to the organisation of forecasting
DAY 3: Trends Correlations and Very Useful New Formulas
What are trends
Correlations
Trend information for growth
Trend information for contraction
Formula for Rightsizing the organisation
DAY 4: Downsizing, Rightsizing & Workflow Management
What is the difference between downsizing and rightsizing?
Techniques for right sizing
Downsizing the organisation
Calculating the value of rightsizing
Using workflow management to improve efficiency
How much can you improve productivity by?
Making the financial case – what is the added value here?
DAY 5: The Workforce Planning Dashboard – Business Process Mapping, Succession and Emergency Planning
Understand the value of the workforce planning dashboard
Importance of staff satisfaction
Why do we need business process mapping?
What it has to offer
How to draw business process maps & calculate the value of improvement