The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook: Design, Implement and Measure Workforce Plans to Drive Business Results

Is your organization’s workforce fit for its current and future business purpose? Do you know the risks to your business if it is not? Do you know how you will tackle those risks?

Business leaders and senior people professionals must be able to answer ’yes’ to all these questions and the only way to achieve this is through successful strategic workforce planning. This practical guide outlines why strategic workforce planning (SWP) is so important and explains how to ensure you get it right. It covers how to assess your current people and organization design, explains how to identify what you need to meet your business goals and provides everything you need to design and implement a successful workforce plan.

Covering everything from getting stakeholder buy-in and setting a vision through to communicating change to the workforce and working with the finance team, The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook includes everything you need to build a business plan that will support future company growth and drive results. There is discussion of how to measure and demonstrate the value of SWP, the internal politics and ethical considerations that you need to be aware of and the significance of diversity and inclusion in workforce planning. This book also contains crucial coverage of skills, technology and SWP metrics.

David Edwards is the Head of Workforce Planning at Ericsson. Prior to this he was Strategic Workforce Management Programme Manager at NatWest Group and the Head of Resource Management for CIB Technology at RBS. Based in Basingstoke, UK, he is also a conference speaker on all aspects of strategic workforce planning.