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Sessions designed for busy professionals.
Insightful, actionable, and easy to fit into your day.
Stay ahead in workforce planning with our exclusive Lunch & Learn Webinar Series – designed for busy professionals who want practical insights in just 30 minutes. Each session is packed with expert knowledge, actionable strategies, and the latest trends to help you navigate the future of workforce planning with confidence.
12 sessions per year | 30 minutes | Available on-demand
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Prefer to pick and choose? You can also purchase individual sessions for $25 AUD per session.
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Each session features guest speakers, bringing you real-world expertise and fresh perspectives. Speakers will be announced two-four weeks before each session, so stay tuned!
June 1st: Capacity Crunch: Do You Really Know What Your Workforce Can Deliver?
Headcount is a number. Capacity is what actually drives performance—and most organisations don’t truly understand it.
This session will challenge how you think about workforce supply and help you uncover where delivery risk is really sitting.
Key Takeaways:
• The critical difference between headcount and true workforce capacity
• How to expose hidden constraints, bottlenecks, and productivity gaps
• Practical ways to plan around output and demand, not just FTE
June 30th: The Cost of Getting It Wrong: Quantifying Workforce Planning Risk
Poor workforce decisions don’t just create operational issues—they carry real financial risk. The challenge is most organisations aren’t measuring it.
Learn how to quantify the cost of getting it wrong and strengthen your position at the decision-making table.
Key Takeaways:
• How to identify and quantify workforce planning risk
• The true cost of overhiring, underhiring, and misaligned skills
• How to use risk as a lever to influence better decisions
July 31st: The Middle Manager Blind Spot: Why Your Plans Fall Apart in Execution
You’ve done the work, built the plan, aligned the numbers—so why isn’t it landing? The answer often sits with the layer we overlook.
This session focuses on turning plans into action by bringing managers with you.
Key Takeaways:
• Where and why workforce plans break down in execution
• The role middle managers play in success or failure
• How to drive ownership, adoption, and accountability
August 28th: From Insight to Action: Why Workforce Plans Don’t Deliver (and How to Fix It)
Most workforce plans look great on paper—but fail to deliver in reality.
This session focuses on the execution gap: why plans stall, what gets in the way, and how to ensure your work actually drives change.
Key Takeaways:
• The most common reasons workforce plans fail post-sign-off
• How to build execution into your planning process from day one
• Practical ways to track, adapt, and deliver against your plan
September 25th: Mission: Alignment—Getting SWP and Business Strategy on the Same Page
If your workforce plan isn’t influencing business decisions, it’s not doing its job.
This session focuses on closing the gap between planning and strategy, so SWP becomes a driver of outcomes—not just an input.
Key Takeaways:
• How to align workforce plans to commercial priorities
• The questions that unlock meaningful strategic conversations
• How to position SWP as critical to business performance
October 30th: In the Hot Seat: Real Workforce Planning Problems, Solved Live
No theory. No safe answers. Real workforce planning challenges brought by the audience, tackled live by experienced practitioners.
See how experts think, challenge, and solve problems in real time.
Key Takeaways:
• How experienced practitioners approach complex SWP challenges
• Different ways to solve the same problem
• Practical thinking you can apply immediately
November 27th: Good Enough to Decide: Making Calls Without Perfect Data
Waiting for perfect data slows everything down. The best workforce planners know when they have enough to act.
This session is about building confidence to move forward, even when the data isn’t complete.
Key Takeaways:
• How to define what “good enough” data looks like
• Decision-making frameworks for uncertainty
• How to communicate confidence without overpromising accuracy
