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Take Control and Boost Your Productivity with The Essential HR Planner

Your All-In-One HR Planner: Supporting Your Work and Growth

Designed for you

Working within HR, you’re at the heart of your organisation. Every day brings new and diverse demands – from recruitment to performance management, from developing a positive workplace culture to ensuring legal compliance. The variety of the role is one of the wonderful things about working in HR, but it can also be incredibly challenging.

While you spend much of your time on the day-to-day tasks appearing in your inbox, you are also looking ahead – keeping an eye on long-term goals for yourself and your organisation. This juggle requires skill, patience and a lot of energy.

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, like you’re constantly playing catch-up. And while you’re busy supporting your organisation’s goals, your own career always seems to be the last thing you focus on.

The Essential HR Planner is here to help.

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Planning For Your Life in HR

The Essential HR Planner – Hardback

This practical hardback planner helps you keep everything in one place. You will explore your goals, make plans and have an amazing impact in your role. Each page is designed to give you the focus and support you need.

Measuring 21.55 x 28.54 cm, you have plenty of space for everything you need, while the hardback cover and premium-quality paper will support you right through your busy year in HR.

Price £39

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The Essential HR Planner – Digital

The digital planner is an interactive pdf version of The Essential HR Planner. It can be downloaded and used on an iPad (with an Apple Pencil), Android tablet (with a stylus pen/pencil), or reMarkable. The perfect solution for anyone who prefers to work with a screen instead of paper.

Price £24.99

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This is my 2nd planner after I found last years so valuable. The content and structure in the planner is super valuable, plus the bonus monthly planner sessions are so impactful. If you have this saved and thinking is it worth it, don’t delay, hit buy now and you won’t regret it. You’ll be amazed at what you achieve next year at work!
  
 
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This is my second year of purchasing this amazing planner for HR professionals. It is the best planning tool I've used. It keeps me accountable, organised with great reflection techniques. An added free bonus is the monthly virtual planning sessions with the fabulous Faye. One hour a month dedicated focused time to look back at your achievements, then forward planning for the month/quarter. The key dates section and praise pages are fabulous, with my favourite being the prompts to recognise how much you have achieved in the month. I can't recommend it highly enough. Its a great gift idea too. Buy it, you won't regret it!
  
 
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If you work in HR you need this planner in your life. It will transform how you work and help you appreciate just how much you achieve.
  
 
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 Verified Must have planning guide for every HR professional
This is a brilliant HR planning guide from Bright Sky Career Coaching. It’s packed with genuinely useful tips on how to make the most of the planner, from suggestions on key tasks to focus on, to dedicated space for monthly and quarterly reviews. The section on finalising your goals is especially helpful - I’ve always struggled with this and the guidance here is spot on!I also love the “praise pages” where you can capture the great work you do and the positive feedback you receive. These pages are a great tool for self-reflection and a real boost when you need a reminder of just how fabulous we are as HR professionals.Highly recommend this HR planner!
  
 
  
  
 
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Your HR helper

During my HR career, there were times when I found myself overwhelmed by the competing demands of the role. I was ambitious and wanted to make a real impact with exciting projects but struggled to manage this alongside day-to-day responsibilities.

Without a clear process, structure, or tools to achieve my goals and plans, the demands of my work spilt into my personal time, and I constantly worried about what might be missed. Ultimately, this led to burnout, anxiety and time away from work – a horrible experience I want others to avoid.

This was the catalyst for The Essential HR Planner; I realised it takes more than passion and hard work to thrive.

So, with my experience, training, and ongoing research, I created The Essential HR Planner.

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Whether You Choose the Hardback or Digital Edition – You’ll Get:

Goal Setting and Tracking: Dive into engaging and intuitive activities that’ll help you set meaningful, impactful goals. Get ready for a more successful and satisfying year ahead!
Effective Planning for Your Role and Career: Spread your activities evenly throughout the year with the Year-at-a-Glance and quarterly planning pages. Then, zero in on what matters most using the monthly and weekly planning sections. It’s all about finding that perfect balance.
Review and Progress: Take a moment to reflect and adjust your goals with monthly and quarterly review pages. They’re your compass to stay on track and make the most of your journey.
Key HR Tasks Checklist: Never miss a beat with this handy checklist. You’ll know what needs doing and when, so you can say goodbye to those “oops, I forgot” moments.
Monthly Calendar with Awareness Dates: Keep awareness, inclusion, wellbeing, and fun dates right at your fingertips. These are excellent for sparking ideas about new HR initiatives to launch and providing natural tie-ins with existing projects and campaigns. (Dates are UK-specific).
Celebration and Motivation: Dedicated ‘Praise Pages’ to collect positive feedback. Perfect for annual appraisals and as a heartwarming boost on tough days. It’s your personal reminder of all the great work you
Accountability and Support: We’re in this together! Get the most from your planner with helpful video tutorials. Plus, join me, Fay, for free monthly group planning sessions over Zoom. These sessions are designed to keep you motivated, on track, and making the most of your goals and plans.

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Testimonials

What a find the HR Planner was!

As a standalone HR professional, I am always on the lookout for tools to help me in my busy work life.
What a find the HR Planner was!‌

… I found the Key HR Tasks a helpful reminder and added my own.
The weekly planner became my bible.

I started to write down what went well and what didn’t go so well – never done this before!
The calendar has almost all the awareness dates in it already, so no need to go searching the internet for those anymore.

The end of the month reflection – which I didn’t fill in every month, but those months that I did complete it, were a revelation of just how much I had achieved. It was also a helpful reminder of what I didn’t quite get to finalise, but I was able to carry that over to the next month of the planner.
For me the HR Planner kept everything in one place.

– Sally Bucknell, HR Advisor

A fabulous tool

I’ve been using the HR Planner for the last couple of years and am always the first in the queue when it’s time to order the next one!
It is a fabulous tool in helping me plan my everyday work and projects, ensuring I don’t miss any key dates or tasks. Fay has very kindly done the hard work for us and provided the awareness dates.

Thank you, Fay! I soon found myself using it every single day in my work and for my career development.

I’ve used it both as an internal HR Manager and now as an HR independent. It is great at not only helping me to plan my work for my various clients but also as a personal development tool. You can use it to track your career goals and it has certainly helped me to make those goals stick!
I especially love the praise pages too, as it’s so important to note these, as you never know when you might need to refer to them for a much-needed confidence boost.

I love being able to look back on each month and see what I have achieved and that everything is kept in one place.

– Helen Scullion, HR Consultant  

More about Fay

A qualified career coach, executive coach and Everything DiSC practitioner, with a background in HR. Fay is also the Founder of Bright Sky HR, creator of The Essential HR Planner and the host of HR Coffee Time – a chart-topping podcast that helps you have a successful and fulfilling HR career.

Her work values are empathy, expertise and empowerment. She’s a supportive and energising coach, who partners with her coaching clients to help them overcome their work challenges and achieve their career ambitions. She’d love to help you with yours.

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