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How to create a 2021-ready people strategy Gartner’s Chief of HR Research shares three things that employers should focus on when creating people strategies for next year… 2021 is here – though it might not look or feel too different from 2020, just yet. And, as is usual with the beginning of the year, senior practitioners in each function come together to reassess their workplans and business strategy for the coming year. Given that a company’s people strategy plays an important part of the overall business strategy, it is crucial that HR also goes through the same process. And, when mapping out a people strategy for 2021, Brian Kropp, Chief of HR Research at Gartner, tells HR Grapevine that is important to reflect on everything that has happened in light of the coronavirus pandemic and draw upon those experiences. He explains: “Yes, a lot of stuff has changed but what’s really different is that the future has been dramatically accelerated to the present and so the sorts of questions and things we were going to be working on and thinking about in 2025 are the things that we actually need to work on in 2021.” As a result, Kropp