Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around future labour market planning.
Planning for the Future Challenges of the Labour Market
A concise, decision-focused programme covering future labour market planning end to end.
Course Overview
People decide what future labour market planning really means by watching who gets promoted. Policy on market planning is judged by how it is applied in the difficult cases, not the easy ones. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with the wider people management and development agenda. Participants test their assumptions about future labour market planning against scenarios designed to break weak ones. Participants finish able to explain the practice within people management and development to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. Buying a tool rarely fixes market planning; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. The course covers future labour market planning at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. The professional literature on market planning converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the people management and development capability rather than a set of notes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Align market planning with the organisation's workforce plan rather than treating it in isolation.
Equip managers to hold the difficult conversations future labour market planning requires.
Agree the first three actions on market planning that will be taken on returning to work.
Design the appeals or grievance route attached to future labour market planning.
Document decisions about market planning in a form that remains useful after the people change.
Build capability in future labour market planning across the management line, not only in the people function.
Who Should Attend
Public sector personnel officers applying future labour market planning within regulation.
Training and development staff building internal capability in market planning.
Line managers who apply future labour market planning in practice.
Business partners who must understand market planning well enough to challenge it.
Individuals developing their own capability in future labour market planning.
Senior leaders accountable for the culture market planning produces.
Course Modules
Future labour market planning: policy design and legal footing
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping records on future labour market planning that are lawful and useful
- Set out how exceptions to future labour market planning are requested and approved.
- Define who decides on market planning and who may only recommend.
- Set out the decisions in future labour market planning that require sign-off and by whom.
- Compare the cost of market planning with the cost of its absence.
Session 2Escalation and decision rights in market planning
- Confirm records relating to future labour market planning meet retention and privacy rules.
- Identify where judgement in market planning is legitimate and where it is not.
- Design the communication for future labour market planning around the questions people will actually ask.
- Test the procedure for market planning against a realistic scenario.
Market planning: the manager conversation that decides the outcome
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What your existing data already says about market planning
- Pilot changes to future labour market planning in one area before wider rollout.
- Set the consistency check that catches uneven application of market planning.
- Document the reasoning for every exception granted under future labour market planning.
- Ask employees what market planning feels like from their side.
Session 2Explaining market planning so people believe it
- Check that future labour market planning complies with current labour regulation in every location.
- Define acceptance criteria for market planning in advance.
- Set the review interval for future labour market planning and who attends.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of market planning current.
Market planning: review, learning and adjustment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading the current state of market planning honestly
- Define the trigger that would require future labour market planning to be redesigned.
- Identify single points of dependency in market planning and reduce them.
- Train line managers on future labour market planning rather than handling every case centrally.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates market planning is under control.
Session 2Appeals and grievances arising from future labour market planning
- Build the appeals route for future labour market planning and publish it.
- Estimate the cost of market planning and the cost of leaving it unchanged.
- Measure the effect of future labour market planning on retention and performance, not activity.
- Draft the minimum viable people policy for market planning.
Market planning: capability across the management line
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who answers for market planning, and to whom
- Identify the data the organisation already holds that bears on future labour market planning.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in market planning.
- Set the annual review point for future labour market planning and who attends.
- Script the difficult conversation market planning requires and rehearse it.
Session 2The conversation about market planning managers most often avoid
- Prepare the summary of future labour market planning that senior management will read.
- Check that market planning still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Review future labour market planning for unintended equity effects across groups.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around market planning are understood.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
- 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
- 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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