<p>AI is changing tasks. Skills strategies are evolving. And yet visibility into capability, cost, and risk across the workforce often&nbsp;remains&nbsp;fragmented.&nbsp;</p><br><p><strong>So how do organisations move from reacting to workforce change, to planning for it in a way that&nbsp;actually shapes&nbsp;business outcomes?</strong>&nbsp;</p><br><p>In this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast, host David Green is joined by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidedwardsswp/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Edwards</a>, strategic workforce planning practitioner, advisor, and author of&nbsp;<em>The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook</em>, to explore what it really takes to make strategic workforce planning work in practice.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Join this conversation as they discuss:&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Why workforce planning can feel “deceptively threatening” inside an organisation&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>What changes when leaders shift from thinking about headcount to thinking about capability, capacity, cost, and risk over time&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>What goes wrong when people analytics and workforce planning&nbsp;operate&nbsp;in parallel&nbsp;</li><li>Why looking beyond permanent employees reveals hidden workforce risk&nbsp;</li><li>How AI is forcing organisations to rethink work design, not just skills strategies&nbsp;</li><li>The stakeholders' strategic workforce planning really needs&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>This episode is sponsored by&nbsp;Worklytics.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>How productive is your organisation, really?&nbsp;Worklytics&nbsp;makes it clear - with privacy-first insights from everyday work data. See how meeting volume, manager effectiveness, collaboration health, and AI adoption are&nbsp;impacting&nbsp;your team’s focus, efficiency, and outcomes - so you can make smarter decisions, faster.&nbsp;</p><p>No surveys. No assumptions. Just clear insight into work. Right now,&nbsp;Worklytics&nbsp;is offering podcast listeners a free 30-day trial of their productivity analytics dashboard.&nbsp;</p><p>Learn more at <a href="http://worklytics.co/productivity" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">worklytics.co/productivity</a> .&nbsp;</p><br><p><strong>Link to resources:</strong>&nbsp;</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strategic-Workforce-Planning-Handbook-Implement/dp/1398623598" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Strategic Workforce Planning Handbook</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7082634603290615808/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Edwards’ Dark Artistry Newsletter</a>&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>