Overview

The aim of this webinar is to:

• Provide an overview of the requirements for Strategic Workforce Planning
• Contrast the difference between Workforce Planning and Strategic Workforce Planning
• Emphasise the important role that Organisational Psychologists can play in Strategic Workforce Planning
• Introduce some of the key human capital models that a Strategic Workforce Plan should incorporate
• Demonstrate, using a case study, how the application of the most prominent model in Human Resource Management (HRM) architecture is pivotal to the development of a Strategic Workforce Plan

Across two hours, participants will move through 7 parts, including:

• Background to the rise of Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP)
• Why organisational psychologists should be front and centre in the adoption of Strategic Workforce Planning?
• About Strategic Workforce Planning – the questions that should be addressed?
• An introduction to Lepak & Snell’s workforce segmentation model, including the Skills Segmentation Questionnaire (SSQ) and Role Mapping Tool
• 2 other Human Capital models
• A case study in SWP and Critical Role identification involving a major copper company in SE Asia, facing significant expansion challenges and opportunities because of the demand for copper with the conversion to ‘all things electric’
• Promulgating the business case for SWP

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this event, participants should be able to:-

• Explain the difference between Workforce Planning and Strategic Workforce Planning (Refer to Part 3 of the Activity Session Plan and relevant powerpoint slides)
• Provide an overview of the AWS Workforce Segmentation model based on the workforce of Lepak & Snell (Refer to Part 4 of the Activity Session Plan and relevant powerpoint slides)
• Interpret some common HR data configured based on the AWS Workforce Segmentation model (Refer to Part 6 of the Activity Session Plan and relevant PowerPoint slides)

Presenter(s)

About the presenter(s)

Colin Beames is a business-focused organisational psychologist and a former engineer. He is an author and global thought leader in human capital and strategic workforce planning (SWP), with a deep and expansive knowledge of these subjects.

Colin has developed a workforce segmentation tool known as the Skills Segmentation Questionnaire (SSQ), based on a model by Lepak and Snell. The SSQ has application in identifying Critical Roles, as well as ‘Make’ versus ‘Buy’ Roles, that form part of his approach to SWP.

Colin has consulted to international clients as well as Australian-based clients, and he has delivered SWP workshops internationally (UK, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Malaysia, UAE) and throughout Australia. Refer to the Advanced Workforce Strategies website at Advanced Workforce Strategies

About Advanced Workforce Strategies (AWS) Advanced Workforce Strategies is a boutique Australian consultancy firm with an international reach. As the name suggests, the firm specialises in the provision of a range of workforce strategy and organisational development, training and consulting services and associated tools and resources.

Refer to the AWS website for further information at: www.advancedworkforcestrategies.com

Notes

Target Audience

This activity is aimed at psychologists and health professionals.

Duration of Access

This event will be recorded. The recording will be emailed to all registered within 2 weeks post event and available for viewing up to 90 days.

Please note:

• This is a Member Groups event. All communication will be sent to the registrants’ registered email address. This includes event reminders with details (such as the Zoom link) and any pre-event or post-event resources, if provided by the facilitators.
• A post-event email will be sent within two weeks of the event’s completion to each registrant’s registered email address. This email will include the CPD certificate, event-recording, and any additional resources shared during the session.

CPD

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