Effective Succession Planning Curriculum Outline
Initiating Succession Planning
Overview/DescriptionWhat if one of your key people suddenly left the position? If this persons role affects your business ventures, direction, and productivity, could you find the talent you need if you only had very little time to do it? Would you scramble trying to replace that person by placing ads, phoning contacts, and taking the first available suitable replacement? You can eliminate such scenarios through succession planning. This can also help you develop talent for your organization for key roles that impact business initiatives and productivity. An effective succession planning program involves seeking out talent from a broad range of sources, assessing leadership potential, involving others in planning for talent, and using various methods to develop and prepare people for advancement. This course explains the importance of succession planning and building a leadership talent pool from within that motivates employees, increases retention of employees, and fortifies your business against the loss of vital people. It outlines the steps needed to create an effective succession planning program, focusing on the first step of the process, initiating the program. This involves learning how to align it with the business strategy and how to promote it internally to gain commitment throughout the organization.
Target AudienceManagers, business leaders, HR professionals, or individuals needing to initiate, develop, and implement succession planning within an organization
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Initiating Succession Planning
Recognize the characteristics of succession planning Describe the role of internal promotion in succession planning Match stages of the succession planning process to examples Assess whether the succession planning process has been properly initiated Course Number:
lead_09_a01_bs_enus Back to ListEffective Succession Planning: Determining a Talent Pool for Key Positions
Overview/DescriptionDo you want to take the guesswork out of determining your companys future and avert a crisis if key positions are left vacant? Building a talent pool for your organization is a deliberate, systematic effort to find high-potential employees for key positions within your workforce. Its a smart business decision to assess current and future talent. In this course, you will learn about the process for determining the availability of talent. It covers the criteria for identifying key positions and the importance of planning for future key positions in your company. This involves ensuring you know what competencies are needed to perform the duties for key jobs by performing an analysis, competency identification, and a rating for each key position. The course also explores how performance appraisals alone are not enough to determine your talent pool. For maximum effectiveness, you should combine them with individual potential assessments to find high-potential employees for key jobs for your present and future workforce needs.
Target AudienceManagers, business leaders, HR professionals, or individuals needing to initiate, develop, and implement succession planning within an organization
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Effective Succession Planning: Determining a Talent Pool for Key Positions
Determine whether a position is key in a given scenario Recognize examples of appropriate analysis to perform to identify future key positions Assess whether the procedure for identifying position competencies has been correctly implemented in a given scenario Determine actions to be taken with regard to the succession plans talent pool in a given scenario Course Number:
lead_09_a02_bs_enus Back to ListImplementing and Assessing a Succession Planning Program
Overview/DescriptionSuccession planning involves more than just identifying high potentials for key areas and positions. How do you prepare those individuals for future work requirements and performance? And how do you know if your succession planning program is working? You have to systematically close the development gaps between what possible successors can do and what theyll be required to do for future positions. This involves creating individual development plans that meet professional growth expectations and organizational objectives. Once implemented, you then need to monitor your plans to ensure objectives are being met. In this course, youll learn the steps necessary to implement individual development plans, including how to formulate and develop learning objectives that close the gaps between present and future performance. And youll explore how to assess your succession planning program and determine its success by using effective measurement criteria.
Target AudienceManagers, business leaders, HR professionals or individuals needing to initiate, develop and implement succession planning within an organization.
Expected Duration (hours)1.0
Lesson Objectives Implementing and Assessing a Succession Planning Program
Recognize characteristics of effective succession planning program development Determine effective learning objectives for an individual development plan in a given scenario Sequence the steps to take to implement an individual development plan Match assessment methods to examples Recognize appropriate metrics for assessing a succession program in a given scenario Course Number:
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Effective Succession Planning
Many people in the workforce today are so concerned with everyday situations and daily tasks that there’s no time for
preparing for the future. Have you ever witnessed a high-level executive leave a company and no one seemed to know what
to do next? If this person's role affects your business ventures, direction, and productivity, could you find the talent
you need if you only had a short time to do so. Would you scramble trying to replace that person by placing ads, phoning
contacts, and taking the first available suitable replacement? You can eliminate such scenarios through succession planning.
CBT Direct will show you how to prepare your company for succession by identifying, assessing and developing leadership
and talent for future vacancies. Take a whole new look at the benefits of why a company “promotes from within”. Learn how to
identify examples of criteria for promoting the right people into leadership and determine the most appropriate methods for
your employee’s personal development.
CBT Direct’s Online Effective Succession Planning Training walks you through all the steps of succession planning – the
strategies, initiation, implementation, management and evaluation – so you can follow these steps to help ensure that your
company’s succession plan will achieve its goals. There are also two interactive simulations on succession planning included
for your guidance.
Focus on your company’s future and be confident in implementing a succession plan that works with CBT Direct!
Benefits of CBT Direct’s Online Effective Succession Planning Training
CBT Direct boasts the most beneficial online training course on succession planning for business on the market.
With CBT Direct’s online training, you have the flexibility to study on your schedule, and with the speed and reliability
of the internet, CBT Direct’s Effective Succession Planning training course is accessible anywhere you have an internet
connection. Convenience finally costs less with CBT Direct - the most affordable online training solution today.
The unique design of CBT Direct’s Effective Succession Planning training course emphasizes learner initiative,
self-management and experiential learning. CBT Direct’s online training course design begins with the definition of
user-focused performance objectives and then proceeds to the selection and implementation of instructional strategies
and learning activities appropriate for those objectives. This effective instruction model for CBT Direct’s Effective
Succession Planning training course ensures the greatest level of comprehension and retention.
Who Benefits from CBT Direct’s Online Effective Succession Planning Training?
CBT Direct’s online Effective Succession Planning course would be beneficial to managers, executives, succession
planners (consultants), and HR specialists concerned with insuring information and business continuity via succession planning.
What Will Professionals Learn from CBT Direct’s Effective Succession Planning Training
In this course, you’ll learn 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.
In this course, you’ll learn how to establish a leadership and talent development program that will ensure your
succession plan achieves its goals and overcoming some common challenges that management teams face when trying to
find the right people for a position.
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In this course, you’ll learn how to begin the succession planning process and how to initiate a succession planning
process from the conceptualization of the problem to developing an action plan. You’ll learn how to assess present and
future needs as part of the succession planning process, identifying key positions, determining work requirements, and
assess individual performance or potential.
Effective Succession Planning
