Workforce Planning Tools

WIS supports workforce planning practitioners by making linkages to useful
tools and information that can assist in 'hands-on' workforce planning. General tools across a variety of workforce development related areas are featured here.

A range of practical workforce development tools and resources created by South Australia's Industry Skills Boards can be found at the Workforce Development Showcase. Over time, other locally developed tools and resources (considered to demonstrate good practice) will be provided via the Showcase.

 

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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].

 

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


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

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Mature Workers Career Prospects Model is exploring options and providing support for mature workers to be:   

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

toolsSmall 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.

toolsSmall 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.

toolsSmall 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.

toolsSmall 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'.

 

 

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