Making an HR Plan
12 januari 2018

The HR Plan
A. What is the
strategy?
A’. What
are the
current
issues?
B. What are the
capabilities need to
strengthened?
• Leadership
• Technical/Functional
• Operational
C. What is the required
culture, to avoid issues
and to be successful?
D. What is
the gap
with the
current
situation?
Clever use
of
People
Analytics
E. What are the
priorities?
What is the plan?
• Focus!
• Preference for high impact/
low effort initiatives
F. What capabilities and what
organisation are needed in HR to
implement the plan?
• Mission/ vision
• Roles & responsibilities
• External partners
• Program/ project mgt
• Communication
• Measurement
• HRIS
Recruitment/
Selection
Staffing/ Succession
Mgt
Training/
Development
Talent Development
Performance Man
Compensation &
Benefits
Internal
communication
HR Trend
Scan
Clever use
of
People
Analytics

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A. What is the
strategy?
What are the
current
issues?
B. What capabilities need to be
strengthened?
• Leadership
• Technical/Functional
• Operational
C. What is the required culture,
to be successful?

1b. What is our strategic focus?
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1c. Capabilities
• What is strong? • What needs strengthening?
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1d. Culture
• From: • To:
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D. What is the
gap with the
current situation?
E. What are the priorities?
What is the plan?
• Focus on most burning issues
• Preference for high impact/ low
effort initiatives
Clever use of
People
Analytics
B. What capabilities need to be
strengthened?
• Leadership
• Technical/Functional
• Operational
C. What is the required culture,
to be successful?

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HR Trend
Scan
(hrtrendinstitute.com)
Clever use of
People
Analytics
Recruitment/
Selection
Org Design
Talent
Development
Staffing/
Succession Mgt
Compensation &
Benefits
Training/
Development
Performance Man
Internal
communication
Worplace Design
Work Exprience Do nothing ................
Clever use of
People
Analytics
Clever use of
People
Analytics

HR Actions
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Werving & Selectie
Bezetting/ Opvolging
Training/ Development
Talent Ontwikkeling
Performance Man
Compensation &
Benefits
Interne communicatie
Org Design
Capabilities Cultuur

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F. What capabilities and what organisation are needed to implement the
plan?
• HR vs Line Management
• Roles & responsibilities
• External partners
• Program/ project mgt
• Agile working
• Agile working
• Communication
• Measurement
• People Analytics
• HRIS

[Include the Company Mission
here”]
“To make the world a better place
with our innovative technologies”
HR Plan
in one picture
(example)
Company strategy
• Growth [most companies want to grow…]
• Develop new services for segment X
• Become less dependent on Oil & Gas clients
• Expand into Asia
• Develop synergies with newly acquired companies
• Divest commodity business
Create One Company X Business Units A and B:
develop new services
targeted at Asian market
Move R&D facilities closer
to key markets (in America’s
and Asia)
Invest in new technologies
by participating in startups in
Europe (Berlin, Amsterdam)
Speed up time to market by
introducing and
implementing more agile
ways of working
Improve sales and
marketing
What is the required culture?
• Entrepreneurial
• Innovative
• International
• Collaborative
• Frugal
What are the people/ organizational capabilities
we need to strengthen?
• Sales and Marketing
• R&D Asia
• Agile way of working
• Collaboration/ NetworkingWhat is
the
gap?
International MobilityCollaboration
Talent for now and the
future
People/ org focus
High Quality HR team (basics in
order, capacity for projects, great
external partners)
Measurement (HR KPI’s, clever tools.
using people data for improvement) )
Strengthening
workforce in Asia
New ways of working
(Agile)

Pitfalls
• Taking HR too much as starting point
• Wanting to do everything
• Too much in too short time
• Wanting to do things for everybody
• Not working fact based
• Lose sight on employees and management
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