Resource Management

Planning and allocation of staff to projects and tasks

Resource Management TrainingThe objectives of this course are to provide an introduction to the issues of resource management specifically the planning and allocation of staff to programmes, projects and tasks.

Delegates will be able to understand the issues associated with the introduction of Programme Management, and possible approaches to overcoming the problems of planning and allocation of staff to programmes, projects and tasks.

Course Outline:

  • Organising resource management
  • Identifying the business requirements for human resources
  • Identifying the scale, scope, numbers and skills to carry out the work
  • Job/Task design, flexible staffing
  • Measuring the existing skill and experience base
  • Mapping the existing resources on to requirements
  • Resource planning, relationship to programmes, projects and tasks/jobs
  • Identifying losses, recruitment gains
  • Entry and exit strategies policies
  • Succession planning
  • Resource conflict management
  • Setting and dealing with priority management
  • Building a resource management model
  • Organisation models for Resource Management
  • Staffing resource pools, consultants, contractors, permanent staff, the balance?
  • Feedback and monitoring resource usage, utilisation, effectiveness an efficiency
  • Skill teams and team working
  • Training and development schemes

Who should attend?

Managing Directors, Operations Managers, Human Resources Managers and anyone in charge of resources within an organisation.