- Combines practical tools with real-world insight to help you make workforce planning work in fast-moving organizations
- Helps you map current capability, identify future need and develop a strategy that actually gets implemented, not just signed off
- Includes guidance for senior HR professionals on securing senior buy-in, navigating internal politics and framing workforce plans in language your business partners will actually listen to
- Contains memorable case studies, cultural references and a writing style that's part strategist, part sceptic, part storyteller
- Tackles the ethics, blind spots and hidden dynamics of SWP, including diversity and inclusion in a workforce plan
The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook
Design, Implement and Measure Workforce Plans to Drive Business Results
Design and implement a strategic workforce plan to meet your business goals with this practical guide written for senior HR practitioners.
Key features at a glance
EAN: 9781398623590
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 234x156
296 pages
About the book
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
About the authors
David Edwards is a global authority on Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP). He has been the Head of Workforce Planning at Ericsson, 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 an advisor and conference speaker on all aspects of SWP.
This book offers a rich vision of what HR can be, through the lens of strategic workforce planning. David Edwards brings his wealth of unique experience, personal stories, and strolls through London and beyond, to create marvelous observations and analogies that encourage and inspire the community of strategic workforce planners to play their important role in shaping the future of work and HR.
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