Workforce Plan

A Workforce Plan provides a structured approach to understanding the workforce needed to deliver an organisation’s priorities, now and into the future. It brings together workforce requirements, challenges and priorities to produce a clear workforce plan, recommendations and practical actions for implementation. The result is greater clarity about where workforce effort and investment should be focused, helping organisations make more informed and proactive workforce decisions.

Workforce Model

A Workforce Model explores how the workforce could be configured to meet service and organisational needs, considering areas such as roles, skills, capacity and workforce requirements. Outputs include a defined workforce model and recommendations that provide a practical basis for workforce development and implementation. This helps organisations move beyond existing workforce structures and consider how people, roles and capabilities can be designed differently to better meet their needs.

Workforce Strategy

A workforce strategy establishes a clear, longer-term direction for how an organisation will develop and shape its workforce in support of its strategic ambitions. The process results in an agreed workforce vision, strategic priorities and a practical plan for taking these forward. It provides a shared direction for workforce transformation, helping align workforce decisions and activity with wider organisational goals.

Theory of Change Workshop

A Theory of Change Workshop is a facilitated session that helps teams work backwards from the outcomes they want to achieve to explore the changes, activities and assumptions needed to get there. The workshop produces a shared Theory of Change and a clear articulation of the connections between activities and intended outcomes. This creates a stronger shared understanding of how change is expected to happen and provides a foundation for planning, implementation and evaluation.

Ideas Generator Workshop

An Ideas Generator Workshop provides a structured and collaborative space for teams to generate and explore potential responses to a workforce challenge or opportunity. The session produces a set of ideas and prioritised opportunities that can be developed further through workforce design activity. It helps organisations bring together different perspectives, challenge established thinking and identify creative possibilities for change.

Scenario Planning Programme

A Scenario Planning Programme helps organisations explore different ways the future could develop and consider what each might mean for their workforce. The process generates a set of plausible future scenarios, an exploration of their workforce implications and recommendations to inform future planning. This enables organisations to plan more confidently in conditions of uncertainty, test current assumptions and develop workforce approaches that are more adaptable and resilient.

Workforce Design Maturity Assessment

A Workforce Design Maturity Assessment provides a structured assessment of an organisation’s current workforce design capability, identifying existing strengths alongside areas that could be developed further. The output is a maturity assessment with clear development priorities and recommendations for strengthening workforce design practice. It gives organisations a clearer understanding of their starting point and where to focus investment, capability building and improvement activity.

Problem and Opportunity Patterns Workshop

A Problem and Opportunity Patterns Workshop helps teams step back from individual workforce issues to explore the wider patterns, connections and opportunities that may sit behind them. Through a facilitated process, participants develop a clearer picture of the challenge, identify emerging themes and opportunities, and agree areas for further exploration or action. This helps build a shared understanding of complex workforce challenges and reduces the risk of jumping too quickly to solutions before the underlying problem is understood.

Introduction to Workforce Design

Introduction to Workforce Design provides an accessible introduction to the principles and practice of workforce design, helping people understand what it is, why it matters and how it can support workforce transformation. Participants leave with a shared understanding of key concepts, practical resources and approaches they can begin applying in their own work. It provides a strong foundation for organisations wanting to build workforce design awareness and establish a common language across teams.

Workforce Design Training Programme

The Workforce Design Training Programme provides a more comprehensive and structured approach to developing workforce design knowledge, skills and confidence. Through a combination of learning, practical activities and supporting resources, participants build their capability to understand workforce challenges and apply workforce design approaches within real-world contexts. The programme provides learning materials, tools and practical resources that help organisations develop sustainable internal capability rather than relying solely on external expertise.

How-to Guide Package

The How-to Guide Package provides accessible, practical guidance to help people apply workforce design methods and approaches independently. Guides can combine step-by-step advice with templates, tools and worksheets that support teams through different aspects of workforce design. The package gives organisations practical resources they can return to and reuse, supporting greater consistency and confidence in how workforce design is applied.

Facilitated Half-Day & Full-Day Workshops

Our Facilitated Workshops provide focused, interactive sessions that build knowledge and skills while enabling teams to apply their learning to relevant workforce challenges. Sessions combine facilitated learning with discussion, exercises and practical application, producing workshop materials alongside tangible outputs from the activities undertaken. They provide an engaging way to develop capability while helping teams make immediate progress on issues that matter to their organisation.

Team Coaching

Team Coaching supports teams to develop their workforce design capability through facilitated reflection, learning and practical application to their own work. Coaching can help teams make sense of challenges, build confidence in applying workforce design approaches and identify practical actions for continued development. The result is strengthened capability that is embedded within everyday practice, supporting teams to become increasingly confident and self-sufficient.

Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

A Monitoring and Evaluation Framework provides a structured approach to understanding whether a workforce programme, intervention or change is achieving its intended outcomes. It establishes clear outcomes, indicators, measures and approaches to collecting and reviewing evidence, resulting in a practical framework that can guide ongoing monitoring and evaluation. This helps organisations demonstrate impact, understand what is working and why, and use learning to continuously improve their approach.

Best Practice Literature Review

A Best Practice Literature Review brings together relevant research, evidence and emerging practice to build a clearer understanding of what is already known about a workforce challenge or opportunity. The review produces an accessible synthesis of the evidence, highlighting key findings, implications and considerations for the organisation. This gives teams a stronger evidence base for decision-making and helps ensure workforce strategies and interventions are informed by existing knowledge rather than assumptions alone.

Evaluation Tool Development

Evaluation Tool Development provides organisations with practical, tailored tools for measuring the implementation, experience and impact of workforce initiatives. Depending on the requirements, outputs may include surveys, questionnaires, interviews and focus group guides, outcome measures and supporting data collection tools. These provide a consistent and proportionate approach to gathering evidence, enabling organisations to understand impact, capture learning and strengthen future decision-making.

Stakeholder Engagement Package

A Stakeholder Engagement Package provides a structured approach to understanding the perspectives, experiences and needs of the people who are affected by, involved in or can influence workforce change. Through tailored engagement activities, the package produces a synthesis of stakeholder insights, key themes and considerations to inform decision-making and design. This helps organisations develop solutions that are grounded in people’s lived and working experiences, build shared understanding and ensure that a wider range of perspectives informs change.

Workforce Data Modelling

Workforce Data Modelling uses available workforce and service data to develop a clearer picture of current and potential future workforce requirements. The work produces analytical models and insights that can support exploration of areas such as workforce demand, capacity and different future scenarios. This enables organisations to test assumptions, explore different possibilities and make more informed decisions about how their workforce may need to change.

Policy & Guidance Analysis

Policy & Guidance Analysis brings together relevant national, sector or organisational policy and guidance to identify what it means for workforce strategy, design and transformation. The output provides a clear synthesis of the most relevant requirements, priorities and implications, translating often complex information into practical considerations for the organisation. This helps teams understand the wider context in which they are working and align workforce decisions with relevant policy direction and guidance.

Advisory Package

An Advisory Package provides flexible access to Bixi’s workforce design and transformation expertise to help organisations navigate challenges, test thinking and make informed decisions. Support can be tailored around the organisation’s priorities, providing expert advice, constructive challenge and practical recommendations as needs emerge. This gives teams access to specialist expertise when they need it, helping build confidence, strengthen decision-making and maintain momentum.

Project Planning and Management Package

The Project Planning and Management Package provides practical support to establish, structure and coordinate workforce design and transformation projects. Outputs can include clear project plans, milestones, delivery structures and supporting project resources that provide a framework for taking work forward. This helps organisations turn ambitions into manageable activity, maintain focus and provide greater clarity around how complex workforce projects will be delivered.

Discovery and Learning Package

A Discovery and Learning Package helps organisations build a deeper understanding of a workforce challenge before deciding what needs to change. Using an evidence-informed approach, the work brings together relevant information, perspectives and learning to produce clear insights, emerging themes and considerations for future action. This helps teams challenge assumptions, understand the problem from different perspectives and make better-informed decisions about where to focus subsequent design and transformation activity.

Advisory Drop-In

An Advisory Drop-In provides quick and flexible access to specialist workforce expertise when a team needs a sounding board, fresh perspective or support with a particular challenge. Sessions provide focused discussion, advice and practical suggestions that teams can take forward immediately. This offers a proportionate way to access expertise without commissioning a larger piece of work, helping teams overcome obstacles and move forward with greater confidence.

Project Mentoring

Project Mentoring provides ongoing support for individuals or teams leading workforce design and transformation activity. Through regular sessions, Bixi can provide a space to reflect on progress, explore emerging challenges, test approaches and identify practical next steps. The support helps project leads strengthen their knowledge and confidence while developing their own ability to navigate complex workforce change.

Project Planning Resources

Project Planning Resources provide practical tools and templates to help teams structure and deliver workforce design and transformation activity. Resources can support organisations to organise their thinking, plan activity and take a consistent approach to different stages of a project. This gives teams practical materials they can apply and reuse independently, reducing the need to start from scratch and strengthening internal capability for future workforce projects.