Human Resources
Human Resources Strategy
Every business plan quietly assumes a workforce: people with particular skills, in particular roles, at a particular time. An HR strategy makes that assumption explicit and works out how you get there — before the gap shows up as a missed deadline.
What an HR strategy is
An HR strategy is the people half of your business plan. It answers a small set of questions properly: what work will the business need done in three years, who will do it, what will they need to be capable of, what will that cost, and in what order do we build it.
BPS starts from your commercial strategy rather than from an HR framework. If the plan is to open a second site, add a product line or step back from day-to-day management, each of those carries a workforce consequence that can be costed and scheduled. Most people problems that surface later were structural decisions nobody made on purpose.
The output is a plan with a sequence, not a policy document. Where it identifies that roles and reporting lines need reshaping, that work is delivered through Organisational Roles & Responsibility Restructuring; where it identifies a capability gap, through Mentoring, Training & Consulting. The strategy decides what is needed; those services build it.
Who it’s for
The situation this service is built for.
- Your growth plan depends on people you haven’t hired or developed yet.
- You’re making people decisions one at a time, reactively.
- Too much of the business depends on one or two individuals.
- You don’t know what your workforce should cost at the size you’re heading for.
- Pay decisions are made case by case and are becoming difficult to defend.
- There is no plan for what happens when you step back or someone key leaves.
- You want a people plan a board or lender will take seriously.
What you get
Where you end up once it’s working.
- A workforce plan tied to the business plan, with numbers and timing.
- A clear view of the capability gap between now and the plan.
- A defensible approach to pay and reward.
- Succession cover for the roles the business can’t afford to lose.
- A costed, sequenced roadmap rather than a wish list.
- People metrics leadership can actually track.
How we build the plan
- Translate the business strategy into a workforce plan: which roles, how many, and when.
- Assess current capability against what the strategy requires, and size the gap.
- Determine the organisational shape the plan needs, and where the current one won’t carry it.
- Set a remuneration and reward approach that is consistent, affordable and defensible.
- Identify key-person risk and build succession cover for the roles that carry it.
- Define the culture and behaviours you intend to operate by, and how you’ll know if they hold.
- Establish the people metrics leadership will track — turnover, cost, capability, time to competence.
- Sequence it into a roadmap with priorities, costs and owners.
Why BPS
We build the people plan from your commercial strategy and cost it properly, so it reads as a business document rather than an HR one — which is usually what determines whether it gets funded. BPS is based in Perth and works with businesses across Western Australia.
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Tell us where the business is heading over the next three years, and we’ll show you the workforce it will take to get there.
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