Our editable People Strategy template provides you with the opportunity to develop an engaging vision of the future that’s aligned to the future needs of your business.

This approach to People Strategy is based on Stavros and Hinrich’s SOAR (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and Results) approach to strategy development, and aligns with ‘future-back’ strategic thinking and HR from the outside-in (Ulrich).

SOAR is based on Appreciative Inquiry, and therefore enables you to build your People Strategy on your strengths, while its deliberately aspirational approach will help to create a strategic vision that engages your people.

You may wonder why we don’t use the term ‘HR Strategy’? One of the key aims of our approach to People Strategy is to encourage you think ‘people first’ rather than ‘HR first’ and start by considering the needs of the business as a whole.

In our experience too much HR Strategy starts by thinking about HR processes and is constrained by what’s being done now. Our People Strategy template encourages you to put aside current structures and strategies, and think about what your business really needs, from a people perspective.

Then the next step is to think about HR will deliver it...