Workforce Planning & HR Analytics
Overview
Good workforce decisions depend on good data. This course shows how to forecast staffing needs, analyse supply and gaps, and use HR analytics to understand turnover, productivity and cost, turning people data into clear recommendations for management.
Who should attend
HR planners and analysts, HR business partners, HR managers and finance staff involved in headcount planning.
Training methodology
Interactive presentations, practical exercises, case studies, group discussions, role-plays where relevant, and a personal action plan that participants apply in their own work.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Build a workforce plan linked to business demand
- Analyse workforce supply, gaps and risks
- Calculate and interpret key HR metrics
- Apply basic analytics to people questions
- Present workforce insights clearly to managers
Course outline
Day 1Workforce Planning Foundations
- Why workforce planning matters
- Strategic and operational planning
- Planning horizons
- Workforce segmentation
- Data sources and quality
- Review of planning practice
Day 2Demand and Supply
- Demand drivers and productivity ratios
- Forecasting headcount
- Internal supply and movement
- Attrition and retirement analysis
- Gap analysis
- Exercise: build a demand model
Day 3HR Metrics
- Headcount and FTE
- Turnover and retention metrics
- Absence and overtime
- Cost per hire and time to fill
- Workforce cost analysis
- Exercise: calculate core metrics
Day 4People Analytics
- Analytics maturity
- Framing people questions
- Descriptive and diagnostic analysis
- Correlation and drivers of turnover
- Data privacy and ethics
- Case study: predicting attrition
Day 5From Insight to Action
- Scenario planning for the workforce
- Action plans: build, buy, borrow
- Dashboards for managers
- Data storytelling
- Embedding planning in the budget cycle
- Personal action plan
