HR Strategic Plan

As an HR department, you’re responsible for developing, recruiting and retaining the right employees to meet the needs of the company’s long term plans. 

To do this, you need an HR strategic plan. 

The HR Strategic Plan is a tool to help businesses align HR capabilities with organizational goals.

Process Street, has developed an all-singing, all-dancing HR strategic plan framework for you to use.  

It will help you analyze your current HR capability and predict your future HR needs. It will find the gaps between your current capability and your future needs, and it will determine how to fill those gaps and ensure alignment with company goals.  

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Complete the checklist information in the fields below.

Describe the company mission statement and the company values in the fields below. 

Answer the following questions to describe the current organizational environment. 

Answer the following questions to describe the future needs of the HR department. 

Overview of Organizational Goals 

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Answer the following questions to describe the current capability of the HR department. 

Describe the strengths and weaknesses the HR department currently have: 

Compare the future HR needs against the current HR capabilities and identify six significant gaps.

Select which departments need HR support to fill this gap and describe what HR support can be given to help that department. 

If you have identified more than six gaps, you can add more to your checklist by following these instructions. 

If you have more /different areas of the business than those included in the multi-select drop-down, add/change these by following these instructions.

Gap 1

Gap 2

Gap 3

Gap 4

Gap 5

Gap 6

Analyze each gap identified in task 9, and formulate a strategy for filling that gap. 

Gap strategy 1

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Gap strategy 6

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Looking at all your gap strategies, answer the following questions to determine the priorities for the HR department. 

Overview of Gap Strategies

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Gap strategy 2.
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Review the HR strategic plan every three months to make sure your strategies and priorities are still relevant.

You can either manually select the review date in the field below, or you can use the dynamic due dates feature to automatically set a date.

Find out more about setting dynamic due dates here. 

Sources 

• Network Rail – Human Resources Strategic Plan
• Deputy – 7 Steps to Strategic Human Resource Management
• Integrity HR – 5 Steps To Developing A Strategic HR Plan
• County of San Mateo – Strategic Plan 
• Jungo HR – How to Plan Your HR Strategy Map for 2019
• The Balance Careers – How to Do Human Resources Strategic Planning
• Chron – How to Create a Human Resource Department Annual Strategic Plan

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