The organisation's reputation as an employer is built or lost through daily and weekly planning. Data on weekly planning is abundant; insight about it is not. It is written for people who have to make this part of people management and development work with the resources they already have. They leave able to brief senior management on daily and weekly planning in terms that support a decision. Ambition around this aspect of people management and development outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. The professional literature on weekly planning converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of daily and weekly planning rather than to abstract argument. The programme converts weekly planning from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. The final session converts the week's work on the practice within people management and development into commitments with owners and dates.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Prepare managers for the emotional load daily and weekly planning places on them.
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Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in weekly planning.
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Ensure decisions taken under daily and weekly planning would withstand external scrutiny.
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Handle the trade-offs in weekly planning between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
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Build the evidence base on daily and weekly planning from data the organisation already collects.
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Design the appeals or grievance route attached to weekly planning.
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Structure records of daily and weekly planning so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.
Who Should Attend
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Risk managers assessing the exposure created by daily and weekly planning.
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Individuals developing their own capability in weekly planning.
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Talent and organisational development specialists working on daily and weekly planning.
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Senior leaders accountable for the culture weekly planning produces.
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Department heads accountable for the results of daily and weekly planning.
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Public sector personnel officers applying weekly planning within regulation.
Course Modules
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01
Daily and weekly planning: cost, benefit and workforce planning
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Where daily and weekly planning typically breaks, and why
Build the appeals route for daily and weekly planning and publish it.
Test the procedure for weekly planning against a realistic scenario.
Agree what will be standardised in daily and weekly planning and what will not.
Confirm records relating to weekly planning meet retention and privacy rules.
Session 2Applying weekly planning consistently to the person you like least
Define acceptance criteria for daily and weekly planning in advance.
Confirm that reporting on weekly planning reaches the people who can act.
State the purpose of daily and weekly planning in one sentence a new manager would understand.
Map the handovers in weekly planning between functions and secure them.
02
Weekly planning: policy design and legal footing
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1The conversation about weekly planning managers most often avoid
Plan the sequence in which improvements to daily and weekly planning will be introduced.
Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for weekly planning.
Review daily and weekly planning for unintended equity effects across groups.
Check that weekly planning complies with current labour regulation in every location.
Session 2The exception to weekly planning that sets the precedent
Record the rationale for each significant choice made about daily and weekly planning.
Confirm that those complying with weekly planning understand why it exists.
Test the policy on daily and weekly planning against three real cases from the past year.
Agree the indicators that will show whether weekly planning is improving.
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Weekly planning: capability across the management line
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Explaining weekly planning so people believe it
Measure the effect of daily and weekly planning on retention and performance, not activity.
Document the reasoning for every exception granted under weekly planning.
Train line managers on daily and weekly planning rather than handling every case centrally.
Set out how exceptions to weekly planning are requested and approved.
Session 2What has to be agreed before work on daily and weekly planning starts
Design the communication for daily and weekly planning around the questions people will actually ask.
Set the annual review point for weekly planning and who attends.
Identify the data the organisation already holds that bears on daily and weekly planning.
Compare the cost of weekly planning with the cost of its absence.
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Weekly planning: communication and employee understanding
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Building manager capability in weekly planning rather than owning it centrally
Script the difficult conversation daily and weekly planning requires and rehearse it.
Check that records of weekly planning answer the questions likely to be asked.
Set the consistency check that catches uneven application of daily and weekly planning.
Define who decides on weekly planning and who may only recommend.
Session 2Reviewing weekly planning when nothing has gone wrong
Pilot changes to daily and weekly planning in one area before wider rollout.
Prepare the response for the most likely failure in weekly planning.
Name a single owner for each element of daily and weekly planning.
Establish the boundary of weekly planning and record what sits outside it.
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USD1,250
Workshop or Program Participation
Airport Transfers
Customized Badge
Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
Supervision & Secretarial Services
Accredited Certificate of Participation
Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
Workshop or Program Participation
Airport Transfers
Customized Badge
Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
Supervision & Secretarial Services
Accredited Certificate of Participation
Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
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