🪧 Why This Matters
You know where you’re heading. Now you’re shaping the people who’ll take you there.
This step defines the workforce you’ll need in the future: the roles, skills, capacity, and cultural foundations required to move your vision forward.
🎬 Strategic Reflection Prompts
Pause before templates. These questions help you imagine the workforce that will carry your kaupapa forward.
- What roles or functions will we need to grow, shift, or add?
- Where are the likely skill gaps or pressure points?
- What development will be needed. for whom and how?
- Are our current people ready to take us forward?
- How can our future workforce better reflect our values and goals?
- How will we adapt to tech, environment, regulatory change, or shifting demand?
- What employment models will support our future needs?
🌿 Te Tiriti & Cultural Reflections
🧭 Capability Map
Use these layers to map the capabilities your future workforce will need: organisation-wide skills, functional knowledge, and role-level expertise.
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🧭 Capability Map Table – From Roles to Core Skills
🔹 Layer | 🔎 Planning Focus | ✍️ Prompts to Reflect On |
🧱 Core Capabilities → Shared across everyone | Skills and qualities needed across the entire organisation | What shared capabilities will everyone need (e.g. communication, digital fluency, cultural competence)? |
🧩 Functional Capabilities → Tied to teams or business units | Knowledge, tools, and systems tied to business functions or teams | What are the key functions of your future org (e.g. programme delivery, admin, training)? Who will lead them? |
🧑🏫 Job-Specific Capabilities → Role-based, technical, adaptive | Role-level skills, experience, and certifications | What specialised skills or attributes will specific job roles require? Where will these be located or prioritised? |
🎲 Choose Your Planning Style
Start with Quick Capture if you’re working fast or solo. Use Deep Dive for major change, funding, or governance.
✏️ Step 3: Quick Capture - Workforce Requirements
🎨 Step 3: Deep Dive - Workforce Requirements
🎨 Step 3: Additional reflections: Workforce design through a Te Tiriti lens
🤖 AI Assist
🪄 Quick insight
“Summarise the future workforce needs for this organisation based on its strategic direction, current capacity, and projected challenges.”
✨ Capability & Culture Scan
“Based on this future workforce plan, identify critical role gaps, cultural readiness needs, and strategic priorities. Suggest 2–3 capability or workforce development strategies.”
🧠 External Impacts
“What cultural, demographic, or environmental shifts might shape the workforce we need and how we support people?”
📌 Reflection Summary
🪜 Next step