Succession Planning Overview


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number


Overview/Description
Do you have people in your organization that are indispensable for its success? Would losing them create a hole that would be hard to fill? Have you planned to fill these vacancies? This course introduces you to succession planning--the planning process of identifying, assessing, and developing leadership and talent for future vacancies. This course will familiarize you with the key concepts that compose succession planning. You will receive a general overview of how to assess your key leadership and talent needs. You will also discover the various methods to succession planning. Your understanding of succession planning will help your organization succeed even when key people leave their present positions.

Target Audience
Managers, executives, succession planners (consultants), and HR specialists concerned with insuring information and business continuity via succession planning.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Introduction to Succession Planning

  • identify the value in understanding the fundamentals of succession planning.
  • identify the advantages of succession planning.
  • match each essential aspect of good succession planning to an appropriate example.
  • match each area of consideration of succession planning to an appropriate example.

    • Succession Planning Methods and Process

  • identify the benefit of knowing the methods and processes of succession planning.
  • identify key requirements for succession planning.
  • match the factors affecting succession planning to their appropriate examples.
  • match traditional methods of filling vacancies considered in succession planning to examples.
  • identify solutions to challenges facing traditional succession planning.
  • identify the non-traditional succession planning method used in given examples.
  • sequence the steps for succession planning.

    • Assessing Leadership and Talent

  • identify the benefits of knowing the steps to assessing the leadership and talent in an organization.
  • sequence the steps for assessing current leadership and talent.
  • identify the steps for assessing future leadership and talent.

    • Course Number:
    LEAD0301