Manpower Planning

Course objectives

Upon completion of the training program, the participants should be able to:

• Understand concepts and principles of manpower planning function.
• Demonstrative an awareness of conceptual framework of manpower planning.
• Acquire the practical skills of Personnel Inventory and Audit.
• Implement career development techniques.
• Learn the concepts of Macro and Micro Manpower Planning.
• Demonstrate how to implement Manpower planning models.
• Develop creative problem solving techniques to improve an employee’s performance.
• Practice Manpower Planning Practices including Redeployment, Career and succession Planning.
• Understand the roles and responsibilities of Life coaches.
• Create a path for continued professional development.
• Gain insight to and use Manpower Information System.
• Explore different Manpower Costs approaches.
• Deepen further perspectives Linkages of manpower planning to other HR functions.

Course duration

• 4 days

Course Outlines

Day (1)

• Needs and expectations of participants
• Concepts and principles of manpower planning function
• Conceptual framework of manpower planning
• Concepts of Macro and Micro Manpower Planning
• Application of concepts by work groups

Day (2)

• Definition of Career
• The importance of career Planning
• Individual versus organizational perspectives
• Individual perspectives of career
• Organizational perspectives of career
• Balancing individual and organizational needs
• The changing nature of careers
• Career development value for the organization
• Career development versus employee development
• Employee development
• Career development
• Application of concepts by work groups.

Day (3)

• Career development techniques
• Manpower planning models
• Talent management
• Manpower Planning Practices
• Redeployment,
• succession Planning
• Identifying the need for training
• Analyze your training needs
• look at the current skills levels of your staff
• identify the skills/knowledge gaps within the business decide which new skills could take your business forward
• plan for appropriate training to bridge those gaps
• Case studies on workforce planning

Day (4)

• Manpower Information System.
• Manpower Costs approaches
• Personnel Inventory.
• Perspectives Linkages of manpower planning to other HR functions
• Choosing the right training/coaching/mentoring/counseling
• Team training plan
• Individual training plan
• Low-cost training
• Coaching techniques
• Mentoring approaches
• Counseling tools
• Simulation of the manpower cost approaches