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

Course content details

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3 days

Succession Management for Sustained Business Success

Succession Planning as a Business Tool

Establishes a clear understanding of the perceptions, organizational issues, and business context within which an effective succession planning system must operate.

Setting a Direction

Outlines the basic, initial choices organizations must make in creating, re-launching or refining an effective succession-planning program.

Building Blocks of Succession Planning

Provides a working framework on which an effective succession-planning system can be designed to meet the unique needs of your organization.

Identifying and Developing Talent

Establishes a framework for implementing high-potential identification and development strategies and programs.

Making It Work: The Mechanics

Equips participants with a proven way of calibrating their understanding of high potential behaviours, and sharing that understanding with other managers

Building Your Succession Planning Agenda

Provides participants with an organized, comprehensive means to record decisions, learnings, and ideas from the seminar to take back and apply in their organization.