# Workforce Planning and Organisational Development

> Plan the workforce your strategy needs, design effective structures and lead organisational development interventions.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Human Resources & Talent
- **Duration:** 5 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/human-resources/workforce-planning-and-organisational-development
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=workforce-planning-and-organisational-development

## Overview

Organisations need the right people, skills and structures to deliver their strategy, especially as automation and AI change jobs. This course combines strategic workforce planning with organisational design and development: analysing current and future workforce needs, closing skills gaps, designing structures and job architecture, and running OD interventions that improve culture and performance.

## Who should attend

- HR managers and business partners
- Organisational development practitioners
- Strategy and transformation managers
- Public-sector organisational design officials

## Learning outcomes

- Link workforce plans to strategy and scenarios
- Analyse workforce supply, demand and skills gaps
- Design structures, roles and job architecture
- Plan and lead organisational development interventions
- Measure workforce and OD outcomes

## Course outline

### Day 1: Strategic workforce planning

- Planning horizons and scenarios
- Workforce analytics
- Demand and supply forecasting
- Impact of automation and AI on jobs

### Day 2: Closing the gaps

- Build, buy, borrow and automate
- Reskilling and succession
- Workplace skills plans
- Talent pipelines

### Day 3: Organisational design

- Design principles and models
- Spans, layers and structures
- Job architecture and grading
- DPSA organisational design guidance

### Day 4: Organisational development

- Diagnosing organisational health
- Culture change
- Team and leadership interventions
- Change management

### Day 5: Measuring impact

- Workforce metrics and dashboards
- Evaluating OD interventions
- Presenting the workforce plan
- Action planning