Workforce planning must evolve beyond a HR-focused activity to deliver both impactful and sustainable business and workforce outcomes. This presentation and facilitated discussion will share a proven approach to embedding workforce planning as a core business function. Jaye Matheson, Tamara Lee, and Cathy Weeden will share their experiences, practical strategies, tools and techniques that attendees can use to build workforce acumen in our leaders, enhance workforce planning capability in people teams, enabling sustainable workforce planning practices, outcomes, and measurable results.

Organisations are operating in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world and facing increasing pressure to align high impact workforce strategies with business objectives. Compounding these pressures, many organisations meet the challenge of embedding workforce planning as a proactive, strategic, actionable and impactful business practice to mitigate key workforce risks. Building workforce acumen as a core leadership capability, along with strategic and business-oriented people functions are critical to bridging this gap and delivering impactful outcomes. Buidling this strategic capability in our people functions and leaders culminates in Workforce Planning outcomes that are sustainable, actionable, and embedded in the business strategy.

• Integrating workforce planning into core business functions

• Cultivating workforce acumen among leaders and business acumen in HR professionals

• Defining the problem workforce planning will solve and the importance of organisational context

• Practical tools for embedding fit-for-purpose workforce planning processes

• Case study insights: lessons learnt from successful implementations.