Free HR guides and frameworks to download
This HR guides and frameworks download library holds four practical PDFs on managers, performance, leadership and culture. Because each one comes from real engagements, you can use it on Monday. Moreover, every guide is free.
19+ years · 600+ organisations · 23 sectors · Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi NCR and the GCC
The guide library
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Choose a guide, and then tell us where to send it. After that, you can download it straight away. In short, these are the free HR guides our consultants wish more teams had on day one. Every HR guides and frameworks download here also arrives by email.
The Manager Development Guide
Because the first year decides most careers, this manager development guide starts with the four shifts every new manager has to make.
It is therefore built for first-time managers and the HR leads who develop them.
- First, four shifts from doer to manager
- Then, five conversations, from expectations to the difficult one
- Finally, five traps, a 90-day plan and a weekly rhythm
The Performance Management Toolkit
This performance management toolkit gives you working canvases and checklists, so goals, check-ins and reviews connect.
In particular, it suits HR heads who are redesigning or repairing a review cycle.
- First, a goal canvas and a one-to-one agenda
- Then, fair reviews, calibration and a preparation sheet
- Finally, a ten-signal health check on your current system
The Leadership Development Guide
Because each leadership level needs something different, this guide maps development at four levels before it turns to design.
As a result, it suits L&D heads and CHROs who plan leadership programmes.
- First, development needs at four leadership levels
- Then, the assess, learn, practise, apply loop
- Finally, a design checklist and a succession readiness table
The Culture Change Framework
Instead of values posters, this framework gives you five steps, from measuring the culture you have to re-measuring the one you built.
Therefore it suits leaders who own a culture change agenda.
- First, five steps: measure, choose, align, listen and act, re-measure
- Then, how to align five systems behind the change
- Finally, a survey-to-action plan and a team action plan
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Each guide is short on purpose. In other words, it sets out the method and the templates, and then leaves the rest to your context. Unlike most downloadable HR toolkits India teams find online, these free frameworks come from live work.
From real engagements
The content comes from work with more than 600 organisations over 19+ years. As a result, you get methods that have already been tested in live programmes.
Consequently, nothing here is theory for its own sake.
Built for Indian organisations
The examples, the language and the pace reflect how Indian teams work. Moreover, the guides assume mid-market realities, such as small HR teams and fast-growing managers.
For example, every template fits on one page.
Free to share internally
Use the guides with your managers, your leadership team and your HR partners. If you want help running them, our leadership development, performance and culture teams can step in.
Of course, the guides stay yours either way.
Credits: the B.I.D feedback model is credited to OKR International, and the OCI® belongs to Human Synergistics.
Questions about the guides
Are the guides really free to download?
Yes. Every HR guides and frameworks download on this page is free, so you only fill in a short form to tell us where to send it. Then we email you a copy, and meanwhile you can download it straight away.
What is in the Manager Development Guide?
First, it covers the four shifts every new manager has to make and the five core conversations. Then it adds five common traps, a 90-day plan, a weekly rhythm and a self-check. In other words, it is a practical manager development guide you can use in the first quarter of a new role.
What does the Performance Management Toolkit include?
First, it includes a goal canvas and a check-in rhythm with a one-to-one agenda. In addition, it covers fair reviews, calibration, a preparation sheet and a ten-signal health check. This performance management toolkit also explains why review systems fail, so you can avoid the usual causes.
What is in the Leadership Development Guide and the Culture Change Framework?
The leadership development guide PDF sets out development at four leadership levels, a design checklist and a succession readiness table. Meanwhile the culture change framework download gives you five steps, a way to align five systems and a survey-to-action plan.
Can I share the guides inside my organisation?
Yes. You are welcome to share them with colleagues and use them in your own planning. However, please keep the Seven People Systems credits intact, and do not resell them.
Can Seven help put a guide into practice?
Yes. Many HR teams start with a guide and then ask us to run the programme. Therefore, if you would like help with managers, performance, leadership or culture, send an enquiry. Alternatively, start with the free People OS Pulse™.
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