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V Skill HF-D4.4-001 transversal 10 skills

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

LevelBehaviour 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.

TSkillDefinitionDemand 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
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