Succession Planning Management


Overview/Description
Target Audience
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Overview/Description
So, you have a succession plan and you've identified some problems. What do you do now? By taking this course, you will learn how to establish a leadership and talent development program that will ensure your succession plan achieves its goals. You will also learn how to overcome some common challenges that management teams face when trying to find the right people for a position. Since succession planning is an ongoing process, you will also learn how to evaluate your succession program to ensure that it meets your organization's present and future needs.

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

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Helping Employees Advance in an Organization

  • recognize the benefits of helping employees to advance in an organization.
  • identify examples of criteria for promotion.
  • determine if an individual should be promoted, given a scenario.
  • sequence examples of the steps for creating an individual development plan.
  • match methods of internal staff development to examples.
  • determine the most appropriate method for employee development, given a scenario.
  • Challenges for Management

  • recognize the benefit of understanding how to overcome succession planning challenges facing managers and executives.
  • identify examples of the principles that ensure a flow of leadership and talent in a company.
  • identify examples of alternative methods to filling a key position.
  • determine which alternative method to replacement will help fill a key position, given a scenario.
  • sequence examples of the counseling steps used to help managers with succession problems.
  • Evaluating a Succession Program

  • recognize the benefits of understanding the need to evaluate a succession program.
  • match levels of evaluation for a succession program to given examples.
  • determine to which level a succession program can be most effectively evaluated, given a scenario.
  • identify an example of each method of evaluating a succession program.
  • determine which method of succession program evaluation is most appropriate, given a scenario.
  • match the steps for evaluating a succession program to examples of their corresponding components.
  • Course Number:
    LEAD0304