Planning and organising
Placing activities, people and resources in time, setting priorities and arranging dependencies so that agreed results are delivered on schedule.
How hrmforce measures this
- Assessment method
- Work sample test · rho 0.33 (SD 0.09)
- hrmforce instrument
- Competency Check, 360 Feedback, Work sample test
- Competency (50-framework)
- Planning and Organizing
- Trainability
- high
- Demand outlook 2026 to 2030
- stable
The candidate performs a representative work sample under standardised conditions.
Behavioural anchors
| Level | Behaviour at this level |
|---|---|
| N1 Guided | Makes a daily or weekly schedule for own tasks and sticks to the agreed order and times. works under supervision and follows instruction · routine, one variable at a time · own task |
| N3 Proficient | Plans the work of the team for several weeks, distributes tasks and reshuffles on disruptions without missing deadlines. sets own approach and seeks input proactively · several variables, some ambiguity · own team or process |
| N5 Leading | Sets the planning system for the organisation, links annual plan, capacity and budget and decides on conflicting claims. sets the standard and the policy · strategic, under high uncertainty · organisation, value chain or profession |
N2 and N4 are deliberately not anchored. Raters place them between the anchors, following the O*NET convention.
Underlying skills
These skills inherit the assessment route and the behavioural anchors of this construct.
| T | Skill | Definition | Demand outlook 2026 to 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| V | Making a weekly plan Weekly planning | Places the coming week's work into day parts with a realistic estimate of time per task. | stable |
| V | Setting priorities with an urgency matrix Eisenhower matrix | Orders tasks by importance and urgency and decides what is done, delegated, scheduled or dropped. | stable |
| V | Mapping dependencies Dependency mapping | Determines which tasks wait on each other and which parts drive the overall timeline. | stable |
| V | Setting deadlines and lead times Estimating durations | Estimates from experience and norms how long tasks take and attaches achievable end dates. | stable |
| V | Setting up a meeting rhythm Meeting cadence | Determines which meetings are needed at which frequency with which participants and cancels the rest. | stable |
| V | Distributing the work backlog Workload distribution | Distributes outstanding assignments among employees by availability, expertise and urgency. | stable |
| T | Using planning software Planning software | Puts tasks, owners, dates and dependencies into a planning package and keeps the status current. | stable |
| V | Building slack into a plan Building slack | Deliberately reserves time and capacity for disruption so that a delay does not immediately hit everything. | stable |
| V | Replanning after disruption Replanning | Reorders tasks, people and dates when illness, breakdown or urgent work breaks the original plan. | stable |
| V | Making a checklist for recurring work Checklist design | Records the fixed steps of frequent work in a checklist so that nothing is forgotten. | declining |