Contents
Taking a holistic view of workforce scheduling requirements
- Align the flexibility of personnel planning with customer requirements.
- Anticipate crisis events.
- Organize attractive working hours and flexitime in shifts.
Using flexibility modules for workforce scheduling
- Decouple working hours and shift times.
- Flexible employment - make targeted use of it or look for alternatives.
- Part-time, "reduced full-time" or "four-day week" - find the right mix.
- Set up company and personal working time accounts.
- Agree personnel deployment control for quick reactions with the works council.
Developing customized strategies
- Ensure high staff productivity even when the order situation is quiet.
- Build up sufficient personnel reserves for peak loads.
- Provide crisis mode and turbulence reserves for economic downturns.
- Incorporate attractive working hours and conditions.
- Demonstrate "win-win situations" and mutual added value.
Proven, systematic approach
- Focus on the goals and requirements.
- Step-by-step balancing of complex interests.
- Involve works councils and operational areas in finding solutions.
Best practice examples
- Learn about proven solutions and company examples.
- Avoid common mistakes - compare practical examples.
- Learning from the experience of others.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
- Learn to understand the requirements for a systematic organization of flexible personnel deployment.
- Find out how you can define workforce planning strategies in line with the market and employees, agree them with the works council and coordinate operational management in a targeted manner.
- Receive recommendations for your workforce planning and learn how to systematically optimize your workforce planning.
- Receive tried-and-tested, easy-to-use tools, templates, checklists and moderation techniques for your own practical implementation.
- Benefit from the targeted exchange with other practitioners and experts.
Methods
Short presentations with concrete practical examples, group and individual exercises, answers to your questions, discussion in plenary, case discussions, exchange of experiences, tools for structuring and moderating your own workshops.
Short presentations with concrete practical examples, group and individual exercises, answers to your questions, discussion in plenary, case discussions, exchange of experiences, tools for structuring and moderating your own workshops.
Recommended for
HR managers, specialists and managers, works councils, senior employees in production. It is aimed at all companies with shift operations that are looking for solutions for an employee-oriented and economical organization of flexible personnel deployment.
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Start dates and details
Wednesday, 05.11.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 06.11.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 14.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 15.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Wednesday, 01.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 02.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.