Workforce Planning and Development Tools

General tools across a variety of workforce development related areas are featured here.

Tools here may find their way into the Workforce Development Showcase over time as our users share learnings and experiences in using them.

These tools are not the only examples of tools available. If you are aware of other tools that would be useful in stimulating thinking on workforce planning and development, we would like to hear from you and share them with others.

Realising the Workforce Potential of Women: A Guide for Industry [PDF 177KB]

This resource toolkit provides some pointers to organisations that wish to improve the participation and representation of women in their workforces.

The toolkit provides links to further resources and to organisations that can assist with improving outcomes for women in employment.

A workforceSA Fact Sheet, Improving Employment Outcomes for Women in South Australia is recommended reading alongside this resource.

It's Time to Start Thinking About Workforce Planning [PDF 219KB]

This 'primer' poses ten questions to get enterprises thinking about workforce planning.

The primer points to a 'snapshot assessment' of workforce planning in your organisation. This is an additional tool to further assist you in thinking about workforce planning: Snapshot Assessment of Status of Workforce Planning in Your Organisation [DOC 122KB].

The Better Workplaces: Employer Resource Kit provides information and resources to assist small businesses with modern employment and workplace practices.

The Jobwise Mature Age Employment Practical Guide is designed to be a comprehensive online guide for employing people over 45 in Australia.

Mature Workers Career Options provides information and approaches to upskilling mature workers, to support mature workers to be:

retained in their current organization
attracted back to their sector or related industry area in a training role
moved into skilling opportunities in the Vocational Training and Education sector.

My Business, My People is a resource to assistance organisations in workforce planning and human resource management. The site includes a Workforce Action Plan template and a checklist of tasks to help you identify and plan your staffing requirements.

Building Business Capability Through Workforce Planning [PDF 231KB] is a guide to enable the reader to make the critical decisions and identify the key strategies that will assist their agency to deliver business outcomes now and into the future.

The Better Balance Recruitment Guide [PDF 340KB] has been produced by Business Work and Ageing to support human resource professionals, managers, business operators and recruiters in attracting and selecting employees.

To assist employers to create a workplace that is free from discrimination and harassment the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has developed a range of information and resources titled 'Good Practice, Good Business'.