Succession Planning and Human Resources


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Overview/Description
Once you decide to conduct succession planning, how will you determine the human resources that you need? This course answers this question and other human resource issues. You will learn how to assess present and future needs as part of the succession planning process. For these two assessments, you will learn how to identify key positions, determine work requirements, and assess individual performance or potential.

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

Expected Duration (hours)
5.0

Lesson Objectives

Assessing Your Organization's Key Positions

  • recognize the benefits of assessing current and future key positions.
  • match techniques for determining a key position with examples of each.
  • identify examples of factors to consider about key position holders when developing an information tracking system.
  • sequence the steps for determining future key positions, in a given scenario.
  • determine a future key position within a hypothetical organization.

    • Assessing Work Requirements and Staffing

  • recognize the benefits of understanding how to assess current and future work requirements and staffing.
  • apply the steps to developing a position description for a given key position.
  • match the techniques used for assessing a company's bench strength with examples of each.

    • Measuring Performance for Succession Planning

  • recognize the benefit of implementing performance measurement techniques in succession planning.
  • match commonly used performance assessment methods with examples of each.
  • match methods for assessing individual potential, in a given scenario.
  • choose the appropriate assessment for a given organization.
  • identify examples of typical information included in succession planning records.
  • match the types of inventory systems to their examples.
  • sequence the steps to fast-track high-potential employees.

    • Course Number:
    LEAD0303