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The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook
Design, Implement and Measure Workforce Plans to Drive Business Results
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Does your organization have the number of employees it needs to succeed both now and in the future? Do your processes support business objectives and do you have a robust talent pipeline?
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 resources 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.
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Table of contents
- Section - One: Why it Matters
- Chapter - 01: Why I Love Doing This;
- Chapter - 02: And What Do You Do?;
- Chapter - 03: SWP Is Not a Cure-All;
- Section - Two: How to Practise It
- Chapter - 04: The Truth is Out There – and it’s Hidden in Plain Sight;
- Chapter - 05: Emotively Captivating;
- Chapter - 06: Making Friends with Finance and Benefits;
- Chapter - 07: Lining Up the Anseriformes, aka Getting Your Ducks in a Row;
- Chapter - 08: Turn and Face the Strange;
- Chapter - 09: Siren Voices;
- Chapter - 10: What Has SWP Ever Done for Us? – Part 1;
- Chapter - 11: What has SWP Ever Done for Us – Part II;
- Section - Three: How to Land It
- Chapter - 12: Politics – will the force be with you?;
- Chapter - 13: Strategy, Scenarios, Scale, Scope…and Sheena;
- Chapter - 14: The Challengeable Orthodoxy of Third Parties, Headcount and Skills;
- Chapter - 15: TechNo;
- Section - Four: Where Its Heading
- Chapter - 16: Future Perfect;
- Chapter - 17: A Painful Passion;
- Chapter - 18: Reflections
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At a time when workforce planning is more consequential, and more misunderstood, than ever, The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook arrives to bring clarity. David Edwards has created more than a guide; he's curated a global conversation among the brightest minds in Strategic Workforce Planning, weaving together his expertise with their collective wisdom into something both practical and profound.
This book captures the essence of SWP at a critical inflection point. David has long been one of the field's sharpest thinkers, but his genius here lies in convening the community-the practitioners, the innovators, the skeptics-and distilling their insights into a handbook that will shape how Strategic Workforce Planning is practiced for years to come. Well done.
- 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.
- Dr. John Boudreau, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Scientist, Center for Effective Organizations and Marshall School of Business University of Southern California
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