CIPD launches practical guidance on workforce planning
New guide will help people professionals improve business performance by ensuring organisations have the people they need to meet their goals
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New guide will help people professionals improve business performance by ensuring organisations have the people they need to meet their goals
The CIPD has launched a new guide to strategic workforce planning, to support organisations to review and improve their business performance and set them up for future success.
The new guide will encourage people professionals to tackle business problems, reduce organisational risk and meet organisational goals by ensuring their workforce planning strategy delivers seven key ‘rights’: the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles, with the right shape, in the right place, at the right time and the right cost.
It offers practical tools to help create an effective workforce planning strategy that’s tailored to the organisations’ needs – including a six-stage planning framework and a checklist to guide workforce planning.
Strategic workforce planning is a comprehensive approach to assessing and analysing internal business drivers and goals, on a three-to-five-year time horizon. The new guide breaks the progress down into six key stages:
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