Succession Management for Sustained Business Success

  • Is your organization facing the prospect of a lack of qualified people to fill roles critical for ongoing success?

    As more and more Boomers with mission critical knowledge, insight and experience retire, executives today are increasingly aware that the ability to successfully execute strategic business plans depends on their ability to fill these senior roles with qualified people from their internal ranks. Yet, some research indicates that more than 50 per cent of firms lack any formal succession planning.

    This workshop provides participants with a proven methodology – refined by instructor David S. Cohen over 25 years of working with a broad spectrum of organizations – for developing a structured succession-planning and management program.

    • The technical track is usually ignored but continuity of highly experienced technical professionals can be critical
    • Being a high performer at their job does not automatically make someone high potential
    • Understand the integral roles of career, replacement, succession and workforce planning

    Top Take-Aways

    • Recognize the importance of authentic corporate culture/values to the success of succession planning
    • Retain top talent using succession planning without losing the operational expertise of those that are not promoted
    • The role of HR, The C-Suite and the CEO in setting and maintaining succession and management plans
    • Build a foundation to succession planning as an integral part of workforce planning
    • Successful succession management needs talent champions; what are they and how to grow them
    • Succession is for both the leadership and support positions, how to identify your critical positions

    Who Should Attend

    Anyone charged with the accountability and responsibility of succession planning:

    • CEOs, COOs, CIOs
    • Chief human resources officers / VPs of human resources
    • Directors of talent management or succession planning
    • Small and medium-size business owners
    • HR staff involved in the succession planning process and/or talent management
    • Organizational development professionals
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