BUSINESS & PEOPLE PLANNING

What is your business plan for the next 5 years/ 3 years/ 1 year/ 6 months? Do you have one? Do you need one? You know your business inside out so what value does a business plan have?

Business planning is good discipline: it’s a method of capturing your ideas and communicating business progress. If you employ people they may not have an intuitive insight and understanding of what the business needs to achieve to remain successful. Your bank manager and accountant love to see a plan, it helps to demonstrate that you are managing the business and understand the market place in which you operate.

A people plan integrated into your business plan can help to set out how you will achieve your targets. This will include target staff numbers, skills, management structure, impact on your workforce from new technology, changes in market conditions and employment legislation.

Blue Star Human Resources will work with you to capture these issues and develop these into an action plan to manage the business through the challenges identified. With robust, flexible HR policies in place you will be ahead of the game having planned and budgeted ahead. Blue Star Human Resources appreciates the different needs of large organisations with 1000’s of staff and those of smaller businesses where often one or two staff are critical to the success of the business.

Together we can:

• measure the impact your business plans will have on future staffing requirements.
• help identify the value placed on each individual within your business.
• plan for the people implications of expansion, steady state or downsizing.
• communicate your vision and business targets to staff in a common consistent language.
• plan for future training needs.
• pre-empt changes in market conditions and stay ahead of the competition.
• use your awareness of future changes in employment legislation to plan your reward and employment strategy to be seen as a good employer.
• understand the people implications of possible future business mergers and acquisitions eg legal implications of an acquisition or outsourcing project affected by TUPE transfer legislation.