Workforce Planning 2 Day Masterclass

Speakers - Professor Andrew Mayo and George Blair

10.00 for 10.15 until 16.00 on the 30th and 31st of October 2012

at One Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE

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 Why not book the programme to run at one of your own venues?  You can hire the speakers for a fixed fee for up to 25 delegates. 

Overview

Workforce Planning is defined as the forward planning of resourcing needs, both in terms of numbers and capabilities.  It is often captured in the goal of "the right people, in the right place, at the right time, with the right skills.... and the right contract".

Who will benefit from the Master Class?

All HR practitioners who need to work with resource planning, especially HR Business Partners and planning specialists.

Great reviews from previous delegates

“Really stimulating and motivating”
“Learnt a lot about the key concepts. Has given me the knowledge and understanding I needed.”
“Lots of good ideas and tools for starting the workforce planning process”

Programme content:

•   the business case for effective workforce planning
•   the framework of guiding policies on resourcing
•   the scope of planning - how far ahead? how frequent? how broad in coverage?  Which job families?
•   scenario planning
•   creating a set of questions regarding external demands (such as technology, demographics etc)
•   creating questions about internal demands (i.e company strategy, organisational change, productivity 
•   defining roles and job families
•   modelling workforce flows
•   internal supply sources - potential, career and succession planning – limitations.

The workshop will be illustrated by practical exercises and case studies, and there will be plenty of opportunity for participants to learn from one another and get answers to their own challenges. Participants will be able to take away a workbook to utilize in their own organisations.

The Speakers

Andrew Mayo
A well-known international consultant, speaker and author. He is a Programme Director at London Business School and Professor of Human Capital Management at Middlesex University Business School and previously spent nearly 30 years in a variety of senior roles in large organisations.

Andrew's book, "The Human Value of the Enterprise" is influential. Dave Ulrich, co-author of The HR Scorecard, said of the book, "The ‘Human capital Monitor' architecture encompasses research to date and offers a pragmatic way to assess people performance in a firm. I learned a lot from reading the book and will refer to it frequently as a disciplined roadmap for deriving human capital value."

Andrew is also author of The Power of Learning (described by Director as "the best book on a learning organization") and Managing Careers and Creating a Training and Development Strategy. He has also written two extensive Guideline publications - "The Measurement of Human Capital" for the ICAEW, and "Return on investment in HR" for Personnel Today.

Andrew is a director of Mayo Learning International, a consultancy that specialises in the development and measurement of human capital, and he and his colleagues work across a large range of organisations in the UK and abroad. Andrew is the President of the HR Society.

George Blair
An experienced management consultant with a strong track record in productivity improvement, workforce planning and development, organisational change and education and training.  His work on productivity improvement has been presented at many conferences and been published in professional journals.   He has produced the workforce element of successful Outline and Full Business Cases, working as a member of a multi-functional team.   He has led lean thinking workshops that he led resulted in a large number of improvements.  He has also advised organisations on people based information and reporting.     In addition, he has held interim workforce related roles and recruited and developed substantive replacements.

He combines a participative style of working with strong influencing skills and has worked as a consultant in the UK and in Eastern Europe, the Near and Middle East for the World Bank, Department for International Development and USAID. 

He has written three books on organisational change and numerous articles for periodicals and conferences.   He has been an expert witness to the House of Commons Health Select Committee and advisor to the King’s Fund in workforce planning and development.  He is a director of the HR Society, the leading professional body for workforce planning.

This event will take place at One Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE.  Coffee will be served from 10.00am for a 10.15 start and both days will end at 16.00. The per-person fee for this event has been reduced to £500 plus VAT for members of the HR Society, and £700 plus VAT for non-members* 

Discounts will also be offered to organisations that book more than one employee onto this event. Please contact us for further information. Non - members attending their first HR Society event will also receive one year's complimentary membership to the Society.

*The fee is inclusive of materials for the session, refreshments and a buffet lunch. Delegates should arrange their own accommodation where necessary, the attendance fee does not include accommodation.

If you have any queries about this event or others in the HR Society Calendar please contact:

Gemma Chenery-Jones, Programme Administrator
Tel: 01264 394404 ~ Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it