The HRM strategy how-to guide provides a detailed roadmap for developing and implementing a strategic HRM framework that aligns with business goals. It emphasizes the importance of understanding organizational needs, external trends, and employee voices while offering practical tools and templates for HR professionals. The guide serves as a comprehensive manual, promoting self-sufficiency in managing HR strategies without reliance on costly consultancy services.

1. How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
HRM STRATEGY
HOW-TO-GUIDE
<How to develop and
deploy your HRM strategy>
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TOOLSHOP
• This Guide is part of the HRM STRATEGY
TOOLKIT. This toolkit helps you to build your
own HRM Strategy.
• In the Category of HR STRATEGY & PLANNING,
you can also find the related HR Toolkits for
further deploying your HRM Strategy:
– HR Reporting Toolkit
– Workforce Planning Toolkit (under
construction)
– Succession Planning Toolkit (under
construction)
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4. How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
ABOUT THIS
GUIDE
• Is your organization in need of a long term strategy
for managing HR? Does your CEO challenge you to
come up with HR plans that are aligned with the
business plans? Do you have a strong strategic HR
plan in your head but little time and no standard
templates to turn this plan into a formal HR
Strategy Document?
• Having a clearly defined Strategic HR Plan helps
you to become a strategic HR Business Partner, and
will increase your credibility with Senior
Management.
• It will also help you to follow up on defined HR
actions and report on progress in a highly
professional way.
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6. How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
INSIDE THIS
GUIDE
• The Theory : Introducing the Concept & Model
What is Strategic HRM?
• The Practice : A roadmap for creating your HRM
Strategy
How to develop your HRM Strategy?
• The Experience : Sharing experiences
How to be successful?
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7. How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
WHAT IS STRATEGIC HRM?
The Theory : introducing concepts & models
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8. How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
WHAT IS
STRATEGIC
HRM?
• Strategic Human Resources Management (strategic
HRM, or SHRM) may be regarded as an approach
to the management of Human Resources that
provides a strategic framework to support longterm business goals and outcomes.
• The approach is concerned with longer-term
people issues and macro-concerns about structure,
quality, culture, values, commitment and matching
resources to future needs.
(source: CIPD book Strategic HRM: the key to improved business performance)
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9. How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
A MODEL THAT
WORKS
• Aligning HRM Strategy with the Business Strategy
Company Vision &
Mission
Analysis of
External
Environment
Business Strategy
& Plans
HRM 5 Year
Strategy & Prios
HR Department
Annual
Strategic Plan
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Analysis of Internal
Environment

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11. How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR
HRM STRATEGY?
The Practice : A roadmap for creating your
HRM Strategy
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12. How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
ROADMAP OVERVIEW
STEPS FOR DEVELOPING YOUR HRM STRATEGY
A. Understand
the Business
Plan
&
External
Business
Drivers for
Change
B. Analyze
External Labour
and Workforce
Trends
for the Future
C. Assess the
current
Organizational
Performance
D. Survey the
Voice of the
Employees
I. Identifying future
organizational & people
challenges
A. Define the 5yr targets and
actions related
to WORKFORCE
PLANNING &
STAFFING
A. Prepare a
complete
Report on the
Organization &
People
Management
Gaps &
Challenges
B. Conduct a
workshop with
the
Management
Team to share
the key findings
and agree on
the Business
Priorities
C. Map the
agreed
priorities into
your Strategic
HRM
Framework
II. Defining the strategic HRM
Priorities for the Business
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B. Define the 5yr targets and
actions related
to
ORGANIZATION
DEVELOPMENT
A. Define
measures and
KPIs against
each strategic
action and
agree on
reporting
approach
B. Formulate
your HRM
Strategy based
on the agreed
Priorities and
Action Plans
C. Define the 5yr targets and
actions related
to TALENT
MANAGEMENT
D. Define the 5yr targets and
actions related
to EMPLOYEE
ENGAGEMENT
C. Define your
HR Department
Plan
D. Plan the rollout of the
HR(M) Strategy
with the HR
team
III. Translating the Strategic
HRM Priorities in 5-year
action plans
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IV. Implementing your HRM
Strategy

13. STEP I – IDENTIFYING FUTURE ORGANIZATIONAL
& PEOPLE CHALLENGES
A. Understand
the Business Plan
&
External Business
Drivers for Change
C. Assess the
current
Organizational
Performance
How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
• Objective =
To collect all relevant data about the
future organization and people
management challenges and
compare this with current
performance related issues.
• Critical HR Competencies to have:
B. Analyze
External Labour
and Workforce
Trends
for the Future
D. Survey the Voice
of the Employees
–
–
–
–
–
Business Understanding
Customer Orientation
Facilitating & Consulting
Conceptual Thinking
Analytical Thinking
I. Identifying future organizational
& people challenges
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14. How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
A. UNDERSTAND
THE BUSINESS
PLAN & EXTERNAL
BUSINESS
DRIVERS
• Begin by selecting the entity for which the HRM strategy
is being developed:
a) Entire organization
b) One specific business unit
c) One location or geographical area
• In case of b) or c), verify whether a corporate HRM
strategy exists which you would need to use as the
foundation for developing your business or locationspecific one.
• Once you have defined your scope, identify the leaders
who are responsible for the overall business plans.
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16. HRM STRATEGY – TOOLS OVERVIEW
How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
AVAILABLE TOOLS PER STEP IN THE PROCESS
I. Identifying future
organizational & people
challenges
II. Defining the strategic
HRM Priorities for the
Business
III. Translating the
Strategic HRM Priorities
in 5-year action plans
IV. Implementing your
HRM Strategy
 HR Business Review Questionnaire
 HR Business Review Reporting Template
 Future HR Trends Analysis Worksheet
 Organization Review –
Questionnaire &
Reporting Template
 The Voice of the Employees
Survey – Questionnaire
 The Voice of the Employees
Survey - Reporting
Template
 HRM Gap Analysis Worksheet
 HR Business Prioritization
Workshop - Template
 Strategic HRM Priority
Mapping - Template
 Strategic HRM 5-yr Action
Plan -Template
 Strategic HRM Dashboard
– Reporting Template
 HRM Strategy Document –
Template
 HR Department Strategic
Plan - Template
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17. How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS
& POTENTIAL PITFALLS
The Experience : Sharing Lessons Learned
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18. How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
CRITICAL
SUCCESS
FACTORS -1
• Avoid surprises: know the concerns and level of
strategy-experience of your management team.
• Think and talk like a business leader during the
first two steps of this project. So make sure you
know all the business issues your company is
facing.
• You have to know the organizational structures,
HRM strategies and challenges of the key
competitors of your company – this is where your
management peers will start using your expertise.
You often can find this kind of information through
internal staff that came from these competitors.
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22. How-to-Guide HRM Strategy
WHO WE ARE
Tania acquired 20 years of
experience through managing
international HR Legal Projects and
Talent & Development Programs
across industries.
My fascination for Talent Management grew as I moved up the hierarchic ladder: as an eager young
search professional in the Retail Sector I came to realize the importance of efficient hiring & onboarding
processes and skills. As I moved on in various leadership roles, one of them in the Federal Government,
I often was challenged with matching people their competencies in critical roles effectively. Over these
years, I gained a lot of experience in Talent Development and Competency Management.
At that time, Compliance became an important concern in many organizations, and I decided to obtain a
Master’s Degree in Labor Law. Once graduated, I started applying these new HR Legal competencies in
my assignments as HR Consultant, mainly in the Energy sector, where I mainly focused on HR
Transformations and HR Policy design work. To really specialize in the HR Legal side of business, for
projects around restructuring, employee relations, wellbeing, etc. ..., I joined a well-known international
legal firm as a senior legal consultant for a couple of years. Today I am fully dedicated in managing my
own HR consultancy firm, offering specialized services in Talent Management besides running the HRM
Toolshop.
I started my career in the Oil & Gas Industry within the Learning & Development area, and then moved
into a senior HR consultancy role at a BIG 5 Consultancy Firm where I became trained in Organization
Design, Change Management and HR Transformation through theory and practice.
Interesting times, lots of international traveling, but I felt that I needed to get exposed to the down-toearth, operational side of HR!
I took up several international HR Director roles in Europe and the Middle East, in various industries:
working within different cultures, and how to apply HR practices across locations became my key
lessons learnt those years.
Summarizing all the things I saw and experienced during my career up until now would be as follows:
“Running a Successful Business is Being very Smart about how you manage your People and Starts with
Genuine Respect”. Any successful HR action will derive from this principle.
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Anne gained 20 years of experience
in guiding businesses through
change, leadership development and
strategic HR planning programs
internationally.