What Does Effective Strategic Workforce Planning Look Like?

Strategic Workforce Planning: A growing priority

Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) is a growing priority for organisations that need to prepare for rapid transformation, evolving skills demands, and long-term business change. But let’s be clear: effective SWP is not just a forecasting exercise or a slide deck that gets reviewed once a year and forgotten.

In today’s business environment, forward-thinking HR and People Analytics teams are going beyond static dashboards to build dynamic, data-driven SWP processes—ones that anticipate risk, align with real business goals, and drive measurable action.

So what does “good” really look like?

That’s exactly what we explore in our latest webinar, What Does Effective Strategic Workforce Planning Look Like?, hosted by Nigel Dias, Managing Director at 3n Strategy.

From Forecasts to Actionable Strategy

This webinar offers a practical deep dive into what makes a workforce plan strategic—with a focus on the process, not just the technology. Whether you’re in HR, People Analytics, Finance or Strategic Planning, the session is designed to give you clarity on how to improve your own SWP efforts.

Here’s a preview of what’s covered:

The Key Components of a Modern SWP Process

You’ll learn what a good strategic workforce plan should deliver—from credible business scenarios to HR-led actions that mitigate risk and close capability gaps.

“At its core, a workforce plan is a statement. One your CHRO needs to confidently make about future risks—and how HR will close them.”

Building Multi-Year Plans Using Connected People Data

Nigel walks through how to forecast future workforce needs using real data—not just gut feel. He covers how to project future demand, understand attrition risk, and model multiple business growth scenarios (like high-growth vs. flat-growth).

Linking Workforce Strategy to Business Outcomes

Great workforce planning doesn't sit in a vacuum. The session explores how to root your HR plans in strategic business goals—just as Finance and Sales do—and how to create plans that business leaders actually use.

Common Strategic Workforce Planning errors

If your SWP process suffers from one or more of the following issues, this session is especially relevant:

• Your planning output isn’t being used—or no one knows how to use it

• You’ve built dashboards, but HR and the business don’t take action

• Planning is disconnected from what Finance or strategy teams are doing

• You’ve jumped into advanced modelling without the right foundations

Watch 'Effective Strategic Workforce Planning' now

Whether you’re building your first strategic workforce plan or trying to scale what’s already in place, this session will give you fresh insights, frameworks, and tools to help your planning make a measurable difference.

Watch the full webinar to see what successful Strategic Workforce Planning looks like in practice—and how you can apply it in your organisation today.