Program: APS Workforce Planning Boost Program

The need to strengthen workforce planning capability to plan and develop the capabilities the APS needs for the future is becoming increasingly more critical.

The APS Centre of Excellence for Workforce Planning supports building and deploying strategic workforce planning capability within the APS.

The Workforce Planning Boost Program is a collection of modules that target the development of technical workforce planning skills.

These units have been co-designed by the APS Centre of Excellence for Workforce Planning, with workforce planning experts and academics from across Australia. This program is designed for mid-career workforce planners, and those who have completed the Workforce Planning Start Up Program, to further build their workforce planning toolkit.

While each module is completed individually, they all form a wider program to build workforce planning skills.

The modules explore practical tools and techniques to undertake program management, to effectively support workforce planning implementation including governance, monitoring evaluation and iteration.

This content has been provided by the APS Workforce Planning team, APSC

Workforce Planning Boost modules focus on the following topics:

Module Overviews

Identifying Critical Job Roles*

This module is about identifying job roles that are crucial to the achievement of organisational outcomes and become a priority for workforce planning efforts. It’s a foundational concept for all types of workforce planning.

Organisational Design and Job Design*

This module explores effective modern organisational design and contemporary job design in the context of workforce planning. Participants will also explore the impacts of smarter and different ways of working due to external changes and ongoing disruptions.

Organisational Culture and Determining Crucial Capabilities*

In this module, participants will apply workforce planning to determine crucial capabilities and understand the organisational culture required to meet future business needs.

Futuring and Scenario Planning*

This module explores Futuring, which is about tools and techniques that explore the future of work, enabling agencies to make better decisions today about their future. Futuring is an important capability for any workforce planner, and critical for achieving strategic workforce planning.

Demand and Supply Forecasting

This module teaches the capability to forecast workforce demand and supply. Forecasting is used in all types of workforce planning and enables workforce planners to leverage data and information to inform decisions about the future.

Workforce Planning Implementation

This module explores practical tools and techniques to undertake program management, to effectively support workforce planning implementation including governance, monitoring evaluation and iteration.

Participant benefits

Further learning opportunities

In partnership with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra, APS workforce planning practitioners that have attended and completed relevant course work from the Workforce Planning Start up Program and/or select Workforce Planning Boost modules are eligible for recognition of prior learning (RPL) credit that will contribute to UNSW Graduate Certificate in Workforce Planning.

Resources and Networking

Access APS Workforce Planning guide.
Join the Workforce Planning Community of Practice.

Suitable for

APS 5 – SES Band 1 participants who have completed the Workforce Planning Start Up Program and/or those with at least two years’ relevant experience in workforce planning, organisational design or job design.

State, Territory or local government employees - If you are interested in this course, please fill out the APSLearn request access form.