Workforce planning tools are required to manage different HR functions ensuring that organization will be always supplied with staff resources of proper qualities. Such tools help HR manager to undertake tasks connected to this sphere by organizing managerial activities focused on searching, adaptation and maintaining sources of qualified engagement. Actually, for organization this means staying highly competitive on personnel market, this can be achieved by making partnerships with educational institutions and employment agencies, advantageous contracting and headhunting, better professional orientation and development of existing employees etc. Let’s consider some features of those tools:

Spreadsheet allows adding multiple records to explain them in multiple parameters. This spreadsheet can be used as workforce planning dashboard keeping records on existing and prospective workforce sources, interesting personalities, running carriers and programs, their current statuses, prospects, details, planned arrangements and so on.

Worksheet is a timetable of tasks and activities to do, so with its help HR manager can plan own time and appointments in a plain manner or in terms of relation to different projects etc, such a worksheet can help HR specialists to prioritize own workloads and set goals to achieve within a given time, to set reminders on important events etc. 

VIP Task Manager is among workforce planning tools which are easy in use and configuration without applying any advanced IT skills. It features workforce planning spreadsheet (Task List mode) with customizable workflow and attributes, Task Tree mode to break down projects, and Calendar to create sharable schedules. This client-server software provides all the HR team with real-time collaboration capability, allowing multi-user sharing of documents , and unlike Excel templates it uses reliable database technology to store your corporate data.