# Federal Workforce Analysis and Planning Course (Self-Paced)

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## Overview

Federal Workforce Analysis and Planning gives you practical tools to assess your agency’s workforce needs and plan for the talent required to meet future mission demands. You will learn how to connect workforce planning to agency strategy, use data and planning models to analyze supply and demand, and create action plans to address skills gaps.

Through real-world workforce planning concepts and methods, you will strengthen your ability to make informed staffing and talent decisions that support organizational performance. By the end of the course, you will be better prepared to evaluate workforce trends, recommend targeted strategies, and help your agency build a more agile, mission-ready workforce.

## What you'll learn

- Explain the importance of workforce analysis and planning in the strategic management of human capital
- Describe how data and planning models are used in the workforce planning process
- Evaluate how agency strategic plans affect workforce planning
- Analyze and interpret workforce data using supply and demand analysis methods
- Develop strategies to address skills gaps
- Define actions needed to successfully implement workforce action plans
- Evaluate whether workforce plans are achieving results and determine whether revisions are needed

## Curriculum

#### Module 1: Introduction to Workforce Analysis and Planning

- Define workforce analysis and planning
- Describe the importance of workforce analysis and planning to accomplish an organization’s business and mission
- Discuss the role of workforce analysis and planning in strategic human capital management
- Discuss OPM’s Human Capital Framework in workforce planning
- Explain the role of data in strategic human capital management
- Describe the steps commonly used in workforce planning models

#### Module 2: Set the Strategic Direction

- Describe the strategic planning process
- Explain how agency strategic plans impact employees at all levels
- Identify key priorities that impact the workforce planning process
- Discuss how federal agencies as complex adaptive systems must deal with uncertainty

#### Module 3: Assess the Current and Future Workforce

- Define workforce supply analysis, workforce demand analysis, and gap analysis and the purpose of the information that results from them
- Identify types and sources of workforce supply and demand data available to agencies
- Interpret workforce supply and demand data to identify implications for workforce planning

#### Module 4: Develop an Action Plan

- Identify strategies to address identified skills gaps
- Identify factors that influence strategies

#### Module 5: Implement, Monitor, Evaluate, and Revise

- Identify key issues that help agencies ensure successful implementation of a workforce plan
- Identify the steps involved in evaluating and revising a workforce plan
- Identify key issues involved in determining whether to revise the workforce plan
- Identify data collection tools used to determine whether the workforce plan is achieving results

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $1049