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Strategic Workforce Planning.
Build a workforce plan that is tied to revenue, survives contact with reality, and earns the board’s trust.
One-time purchase · 12 months of access · about 4 hours including exercises and the capstone · certificate of completion
What you’ll be able to do.
For CEOs, CFOs, CHROs and HR and finance leaders in 50–1,000 person organizations.
- Tie headcount and capability to revenue, strategy and operating milestones.
- Forecast workforce supply: attrition, retirements, internal moves and skills.
- Model demand with drivers, productivity and AI adjustments.
- Quantify the gap in dollars and choose among build, buy, borrow and automate.
- Run the plan with a governance cadence, metrics and a board-ready narrative.
Curriculum.
5 modules, 15 lessons, 4 applied exercises, 5 knowledge checks and a faculty-reviewed capstone.
Module 1. Foundations of strategic workforce planning
What workforce planning is, how it links to strategy and money, and how to plan under uncertainty.
- What workforce planning is, and what it isn’t (free preview)
- Linking the workforce plan to strategy and revenue
- Planning horizons and scenarios · exercise
- Knowledge check
Module 2. Workforce supply
Your baseline, how it will change on its own, and the skills you actually have.
- Building the workforce baseline
- Forecasting attrition, retirements and internal moves
- Taking stock of skills · exercise
- Knowledge check
Module 3. Workforce demand
Model demand with drivers, adjust for productivity and AI, and identify critical roles.
- Driver-based demand modeling
- Adjusting demand for productivity and AI
- Identifying critical roles · exercise
- Knowledge check
Module 4. Closing the gap
Quantify the gap in dollars, choose among the options, and prioritize.
- Quantifying the gap and what it costs
- Build, buy, borrow, automate: choosing the mix
- Prioritizing actions · exercise
- Knowledge check
Module 5. Running the plan
Governance, metrics and the board narrative that keep the plan alive.
- The governance cadence
- Metrics and dashboards that drive decisions
- Presenting the plan to the board
- Knowledge check
Capstone
Apply the course to your own organization in a written plan, reviewed by the NWTS Academy faculty against a published rubric.
How it’s taught.
Lessons are built on The NWTS Method™ and the operating experience behind DecisionIQ, and are written with AI assistance. Exercises run on the same transparent calculation engine as DecisionIQ. The NWTS Academy faculty answers your questions and reviews your exercises and capstone in writing, with AI assistance, usually within a few hours; anything that needs a person goes to Nikita R. Steals.
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