There are so many demands on the HR and People team that you may find your goals & plans for your career slipping to the bottom of your ‘to do’ list. It doesn’t have to be this way though! Learn how to get confident, organised & plan for your goals for 2023 with the HR Planner – whether you have the free pdf version, or the hardback version.

In this episode of HR Coffee Time, Career Coach & creator of the HR Planner, Fay Wallis, talks you through each part of the HR Planner, explaining how to use the activities in it and how these can help.

[00:02] Fay explains how to:

• Order The Essential HR Planner

[06:43] The first activity in the HR Planner: ‘Looking Back to Look Forward’ – 10 questions to help you reflect on the past year & plan for the year ahead

[09:04] Fay refers back to previous episodes focused on networking and building relationships:

• Building relationships with difficult people at work
• Networking – the three most important networks for your career
• How networking can help your career
• How to become more confident about networking
• 3 tips to build a better relationship with a difficult person at work

[10:00] Fay references Shawn Achor’s TED talk to learn more about the power of gratitude: ‘The Happy Secret to Better Work’

[11:08] Exercises to help you think through and plan your career goals – looking inwards & looking outwards 

[16:02] Finalising your career goals using more than just SMART

[18:20] The next section of the HR Planner – Key HR tasks/events to plan for

[19:53] The quarterly planning page

[21:45] The main part of the HR Planner – the monthly calendar containing awareness & inclusion dates

[25:49] The final activities in the HR Planner – to build your confidence & resilience: the praise pages and the ‘feeling good’ box page

[26:47] Fay refers back to episode 51: Two ideas to help you bounce back from a tough day at work

• Connect with Fay on LinkedIn
• The Bright Sky Career Coaching website
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• The Essential HR Planner

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