Role-Based Programme
RB1436

AI-Powered Workforce Planning

Smarter Capacity Forecasting, Skills Analysis & Talent Demand Planning

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Duration
4 Hours
Level
Awareness
Delivery
Instructor-Led
Format
Awareness Session

Programme Objectives

  • Understand how AI can support Workforce Planning across headcount analysis, workforce demand, capacity planning, skills assessment, and scenario development.
  • Explore practical prompting techniques for workforce data, staffing requirements, skills gaps, demand scenarios, and management reporting.
  • Apply AI to organise workforce information, identify patterns, structure planning assumptions, and prepare decision-support outputs.
  • Identify opportunities to improve workforce visibility, planning speed, scenario comparison, and talent-demand forecasting.
  • Recognise employee privacy, data quality, bias, forecasting uncertainty, governance, and human-review responsibilities when using AI.

Tools covered

Generative AI AssistantsAI-Assisted Workforce AnalysisHeadcount PlanningSkills Gap AnalysisScenario PlanningWorkforce Data SummarisationManagement ReportingBasic Workflow Automation

Who should attend

  • Workforce Planning Professionals
  • Strategic Workforce Planning Analysts
  • HR Planning Professionals
  • HR Business Partners
  • People Analytics Professionals
  • Talent Management Professionals
  • HR Analysts
  • Resource Planning Professionals
  • Capacity Planning Professionals
  • HR Operations Professionals
  • Organisational Development Professionals
  • Workforce Planning Managers
  • Human Resources Team Leads

Prerequisites & Participant Readiness

  • Basic understanding of workforce, HR, or resource-planning activities
  • Familiarity with headcount, staffing requirements, skills, capacity, or workforce data is helpful
  • Basic computer and spreadsheet skills
  • No AI or programming knowledge required
  • No previous Generative AI experience required

TOC Modules

Concepts
  • Understanding Generative AI and its relevance to Workforce Planning
  • Identifying AI applications across headcount analysis, workforce demand, skills planning, and scenario modelling
  • Understanding AI assistance versus Workforce Planning and HR judgement
  • Recognising workforce decisions requiring validated business assumptions and human review
Practical activities
  • Mapping common Workforce Planning activities to potential AI applications
  • Comparing a traditional workforce-planning task with an AI-assisted approach

Scenarios

Business Growth Plan to Workforce Demand Forecast

Business Growth Plan → AI-Assisted Workforce Analysis → Current Capacity → Future Demand → Headcount Gap → Skills Requirements → Workforce Plan

Participants use AI to convert a sample business-growth requirement into a structured workforce-demand view covering capacity, headcount, skills, and planning assumptions.

Workforce Data to Strategic Action Plan

Headcount + Attrition + Skills + Business Demand → AI-Assisted Scenario Analysis → Workforce Gaps → Risks → Hire / Develop / Redeploy Options → Executive Summary

Participants use AI to analyse sample workforce information, compare planning scenarios, and prepare a structured action summary while retaining final workforce decisions with authorised HR, Finance, and business leaders.

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