Role-Based Programme
RB1439

AI-Powered Workforce Planning

Strategic Workforce Analytics, Skills Forecasting & Capacity Optimisation

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Duration
32 Hours
Level
Advanced
Delivery
Instructor-Led
Format
Capability Development

Programme Objectives

  • Develop advanced capability to apply AI across workforce demand forecasting, supply analysis, skills planning, capacity modelling, scenario planning, and workforce strategy.
  • Use AI to analyse headcount, role structures, skills data, hiring trends, attrition, productivity, business plans, and workforce costs.
  • Build repeatable AI-assisted workflows for workforce forecasting, gap analysis, scenario modelling, resource planning, and leadership reporting.
  • Apply AI to identify workforce shortages, surplus capacity, critical skills gaps, future role requirements, and workforce risk areas.
  • Design responsible AI-enabled Workforce Planning workflows with appropriate controls for data quality, fairness, privacy, explainability, forecasting uncertainty, and human oversight.

Tools covered

Generative AI AssistantsAI Search & ResearchSpreadsheet & Data AnalysisWorkforce Planning ToolsPeople Analytics PlatformsSkills Intelligence ToolsScenario Modelling ToolsHRIS PlatformsReporting & Dashboard ToolsDocument AIWorkflow Automation

Who should attend

  • Workforce Planning Managers
  • Strategic Workforce Planning Professionals
  • Workforce Analysts
  • People Analytics Managers
  • HR Business Partners
  • HR Directors
  • Talent Management Managers
  • Talent Acquisition Managers
  • Learning & Development Managers
  • HRIS & People Analytics Professionals
  • Organisational Development Professionals
  • HR Transformation Professionals
  • Business Planning Professionals
  • Resource Planning Managers
  • Workforce Planning Team Leads

Prerequisites & Participant Readiness

  • Working knowledge of Human Resources, workforce planning, people analytics, talent management, or business planning
  • Familiarity with headcount, hiring, attrition, role structures, skills, capacity, and workforce data
  • Basic proficiency with spreadsheets, data analysis, reports, and workplace productivity applications
  • No previous AI course attendance required
  • No programming background required

TOC Modules

Concepts
  • Understanding Generative AI, analytical AI, forecasting support, and workforce intelligence
  • Mapping AI opportunities across strategic and operational workforce planning
  • Understanding AI assistance versus accountable workforce decisions
  • Recognising privacy, fairness, data-quality, and forecasting risks
Practical activities
  • Mapping an existing workforce planning process
  • Comparing manual and AI-assisted planning activities
  • Creating a Workforce Planning AI opportunity matrix

Scenarios

Business Growth Plan to Workforce Strategy

Business Plan → Demand Drivers → Current Workforce Supply → Skills Analysis → Demand Forecast → Supply Forecast → Workforce Gaps → Build / Buy / Borrow / Automate Options → Leadership Review

Participants use AI-assisted techniques to convert a simulated business growth plan into a structured workforce strategy covering roles, skills, capacity, hiring, development, and alternative workforce responses.

Workforce Data to Strategic Scenario Planning

Headcount + Attrition + Hiring + Skills + Productivity + Workforce Cost + Business Scenarios → AI Analysis → Demand & Supply Forecasts → Critical Gaps → Scenario Comparison → Priority Actions → Workforce Dashboard → Executive Review

Participants design an AI-enabled Workforce Planning workflow that consolidates workforce and business data, models alternative scenarios, identifies future workforce risks, and improves strategic visibility while retaining final workforce decisions with authorised HR and business leaders.

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