The People Manager’s Guide to Resource Management

Resource management is a key part of ensuring your business and people thrive. In services businesses where your people are your greatest resource, it’s essential that you get it right. That’s why it’s worthwhile to take a more human approach to resource management and planning. Because fulfilling your goals as an organization means more than just supporting and fulfilling your organization’s goals—it’s also about fulfilling your people’s goals. Ultimately, fulfilled employees make it easier to deliver promises to your clients. That’s why we generally prefer to refer to Resource Management as People Management, because it’s really all about people, and people are more than “resources” like printers and products. People have goals, dreams, and aspirations.

In this video, Matt Van Vleet and Kymberli Cassidy define resource management and the four main aspects that go into creating a resource management plan: forecasting, allocation, leveling, and utilization. We also explore tooling strategies and discuss a few resource management dos and don’ts so you can create an effective resource management plan for your people.