Developing your People Plan

Course overview

Do you understand the biggest challenges and risks facing your business? Do you know how to get your people to reach their full potential to maximise their contribution to your organisation?

This practical virtual workshop will explore these crucial questions and help you on your way to creating a strategically focused people plan tailored to your business.

Who should attend

This workshop is suitable for business leaders, those working in HR as well as those involved in strategy and project management.

The aims of the session are to:

• Help you to understand why creating a people plan is a necessity for any business.
• Assist you in identifying your business’ key challenges and risks.
• Provide practical guidance on creating a strategically focused people plan.
• Equip you with an action plan, developed during the session, that you can take back to your organisation.

Course content

Stage 1: The business context

• An introduction to strategic people planning
• Understanding the business context
• Using budget control to deliver a cost-effective people strategy

Stage 2: Developing the strategic people plan

• Equality, diversity and inclusion and its importance to your business
• Creating your tailored strategic people plan using the employee lifecycle framework, including organisational structure, workplace culture, recruitment, onboarding, employee development, and ending employment.

Stage 3: Implementation

• Evaluating the people plan
• Assessing ROI and value added
• Securing buy-in from stakeholders and how to achieve it