Strategic HR Planning

a focused, two-day program for human resource management and development professionals

About This Program (MDEV 6095)

This intensive two-day program is for those who want to improve their human resource (HR) planning skills. Effective planning is essential for HR professionals today. However, just having an HR philosophy of service to the organization is not enough. It all starts with a business plan. More specifically, strategic HR planning must encompass strategy, operations of the department, priority of initiatives that link to business strategy, a marketing plan, as well as a budget that supports these efforts. Beyond these initial steps, HR professionals must assimilate this plan with the expectation of achieving desired outcomes from the HR function and impacting organizational results. This program offers such a multidimensional perspective.

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for human resource professionals, organizational development managers, and other leaders who want to learn more about the strategic planning process.

You Can Learn To

• understand the ever-changing role of human resources
• translate this new role into identifying “value-added” services for the organization
• use a human resource impact model
• develop a keen knowledge of the strategic planning process
• conduct a gap analysis on your current human resource processes
• build a human resources strategic business plan
• assess and measure human resource efforts for strategic linkage of all human resource processes to organizational strategy

Outline

The Need for Strategic Human Resource Planning (SHRP)

• Characteristics of successful twenty-first-century organizations
• The process of strategic thinking
• Components of successful strategy
• Human resource competencies for strategic integration

The Framework for Strategic Human Resource Planning

• The organizational life cycle
• Human resource’s role in organizational life cycle dynamics
• Assessing your organization
• Strategic imperatives and the human resource impact model

Creating Human Resource Effectiveness

• Understanding organizational context
• Using needs assessment as the basis for action
• Linking actions with organizational strategy
• Targeting and delivering human resource capabilities

Building a Human Resource Strategic Plan and Business Plan

• Developing and updating the human resource strategic plan
• Building a human resource business plan: the step-by-step process
• Identifying the first steps for action

Prework

• Human resource priority survey
• Bring a copy of your current human resource strategic plan to class

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