Your Workforce Plan is Not a Strategy
$97
If your organisation's workforce plan is mostly a headcount forecast — how many people, by when, in which roles — you're not alone. Most organisations do exactly that.
Most call it a strategy. It isn't.
And the gap between the two is where the real problems live: the right numbers but the wrong skills. Roles filled but the wrong capabilities. A plan that made sense in January and is irrelevant by June. The same staffing shortages appearing year after year, dressed up in a new slide deck.
A workforce strategy asks a harder set of questions. Not just how many — but which roles actually drive our outcomes, what happens if we can't find them, and what do we do about it before it becomes a crisis.
This mini-course is for people who are ready to build that.
But before you build the strategy, you need to know if your organisation is ready for one. In this module — the first in the full Strategic Workforce Planning: The Optimal Way program — workforce strategist Jude Mahony walks you through the three things that determine whether your strategy will actually land.
Score your organisation's readiness across five areas and know exactly where to focus first
Map who will champion your work, who will block it, and what to do about both
Have the sponsor conversation that locks in scope, expectations, and decision authority before you're knee-deep in analysis
Includes two ready-to-use templates: the Workforce Planning Readiness Self-Assessment and the Stakeholder Map and Engagement Plan.
This is Module 1 of 7.
The full course — covering demand analysis, segmentation, gap closure, implementation, and governance — is in production now. Enrol in this module at the introductory price and you will receive a $97 credit toward the full course when it launches.