Succession Planning Strategies


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
You've decided to create a succession plan for your organization, but where do you start? This course explains how to begin the succession planning process. You will discover how to initiate a succession planning process from the conceptualization of the problem to developing an action plan. You will also discover opportunities for customizing the succession plan. Your understanding of succession planning strategy will help ensure your succession planning process starts off on the right foot.

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

Expected Duration (hours)
4.5

Lesson Objectives

Defining the Basis for Succession Planning

  • identify the benefit of defining the basis for succession planning.
  • match approaches used to assess current succession needs to business scenarios.
  • identify examples of techniques used to help demonstrate the need for succession planning.
  • identify examples of approaches used to develop a succession planning program.
  • sequence the steps used to build management commitment to creating a succession planning program, given examples.

    • Initiating the Succession Planning Program

  • recognize the benefits of understanding the process for initiating a succession planning program.
  • match approaches to creating a mission statement for a succession planning program with corresponding examples of situations when each would be used.
  • determine the approach that will be used to create a mission statement for a succession planning program, given a scenario.
  • identify examples of target groups for a succession plan.
  • recognize the steps for starting up a succession planning program.
  • apply the steps to starting up a succession planning program, given a scenario.
  • identify the steps to developing a training session on succession planning.
  • apply the steps to developing a training session on succession planning, given a scenario.

    • Customizing the Succession Plan

  • recognize the benefits of having a customized succession plan.
  • identify examples of ways to incorporate diversity into succession planning.
  • identify techniques that a succession plan can use to address the needs of employees being sent on international assignments.
  • identify the features of a team environment that affect succession planning.
  • identify examples of techniques used for retaining key leaders and talent during downsizing.

    • Course Number:
    LEAD0302