Your people are what makes you unique

To reach the goals in your business plan, you need engaged employees with the right skills and motivation to meet your company’s needs—both now and in the future. This is where a People Plan comes in. It helps you figure out what knowledge or training your team needs to make that happen. With our People Plan service, our experts in workforce planning can help you create a strategic plan to find and develop the skills your business needs. The plan includes clear actions to help you attract, develop, and keep the right people for the future. We do this through training, workshops, analysis, and advice tailored to your business.

"Today, everything in an organisation can be copied, except for one thing – the people. In other words, employees are the most unique competitive factor there is."

Our People Plan service is aimed at helping management teams get a solid understanding of the importance of a strategic plan, along with practical support to get started.

Through a series of intensive workshops (usually 1–2 full days) our experts lead exercises and discussions to tackle key questions. We then compile and analyse the results from these workshops and provide a follow-up report with clear, actionable recommendations on which strategic actions to prioritise for your strategic workforce planning.

Four modules to get the plan in place

Tomorrow’s skills

We define the skills and competencies that your business needs, today and tomorrow. We teach a method to identify and categorise the skills required over the next few years, applying this exercise to several business-critical roles within the organisation.

Strengths & development areas

We use 32 distinct parameters to let participants map your strengths as well as development areas.

Leadership

Good leadership is key, we define concrete aspects to focus on developing. A foundational training based on a wide range of modern research, exploring the link between highly engaged teams and successful organisations.

Message & positioning

A fundamental training session in marketing and sales, highlighting the key differences between consumer marketing and candidate marketing. We craft a clear message to differentiate you.

Why choose Academic Work as your People Plan partner

Since 2017, we have supported around 40 employers in setting up and tracking their People Plans, giving us extensive experience in how to approach this work and quickly get started with strategic planning and concrete actions. We are in constant dialogue with thousands of employers actively recruiting, which gives us fresh insights. We can identify when businesses are on the right track, falling into common traps, or basing their strategies on outdated market perceptions.