Role-Based Programme
RB1438

AI-Powered Workforce Planning

Smarter Capacity Forecasting, Skills Planning & Workforce Optimisation

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Duration
16 Hours
Level
Intermediate
Delivery
Instructor-Led
Format
Capability Training

Programme Objectives

  • Apply AI across Workforce Planning activities including headcount analysis, demand forecasting, capacity planning, skills assessment, and workforce scenario development.
  • Use AI-assisted techniques to analyse workforce supply, hiring demand, attrition, skills, productivity indicators, and organisational requirements more efficiently.
  • Develop structured workflows for workforce-demand analysis, supply assessment, gap identification, scenario planning, and action prioritisation.
  • Improve workforce decision support through AI-assisted trend analysis, capacity modelling, skill-gap analysis, and management reporting.
  • Apply responsible AI practices covering employee privacy, fairness, forecast uncertainty, data quality, explainability, and human decision-making.

Tools covered

Generative AI AssistantsWorkforce AnalyticsHeadcount AnalysisSkills & Capacity PlanningScenario ModellingSpreadsheet AnalysisDemand & Supply AnalysisWorkforce ReportingDocument IntelligenceWorkflow Automation

Who should attend

  • Workforce Planning Managers
  • Workforce Planning Analysts
  • Strategic Workforce Planning Professionals
  • HR Business Partners
  • HR Managers
  • People Analytics Professionals
  • Talent Management Professionals
  • Talent Acquisition Professionals
  • Learning & Development Professionals
  • Organisational Development Professionals
  • HRIS Professionals
  • Business Planning Professionals
  • Capacity Planning Professionals
  • Human Resources Team Leads

Prerequisites & Participant Readiness

  • Working knowledge of Human Resources, workforce planning, people analytics, or business planning
  • Familiarity with headcount, hiring, attrition, skills, capacity, or workforce data is helpful
  • Basic spreadsheet and data-analysis skills
  • Basic awareness of Generative AI is helpful
  • No programming knowledge required

TOC Modules

Concepts
  • Understanding Generative AI, analytics, automation, and their role in workforce planning
  • Identifying AI applications across demand forecasting, supply analysis, skills planning, and reporting
  • Understanding AI assistance versus authorised HR and business decision-making
  • Recognising risks related to poor-quality data, biased assumptions, privacy, and overconfident forecasts
Practical activities
  • Mapping the Workforce Planning lifecycle to AI-assisted opportunities
  • Identifying repetitive analytical and reporting tasks suitable for AI support
  • Comparing traditional and AI-assisted workforce-planning workflows

Scenarios

Business Growth Plan to Workforce Requirement

Business Growth Plan → AI-Assisted Demand Analysis → Current Workforce Supply → Skills & Capacity Gaps → Workforce Scenarios → Build / Buy / Redeploy Options → Management Review

Participants analyse a simulated business-growth requirement, estimate workforce demand, compare it with available capacity and skills, and prepare practical workforce options for management decision-making.

Workforce Data to Strategic Workforce Action Plan

Headcount + Attrition + Vacancies + Skills + Workforce Cost + Mobility Data → AI Analysis → Workforce Risks → Critical Gaps → Scenario Options → Priority Actions → Leadership Report

Participants consolidate workforce information, identify capacity and capability risks, compare multiple planning scenarios, and prepare a leadership-ready Workforce Action Plan with assumptions, priorities, and review points.

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