Career Development and Succession Planning

OBJECTIVES:

1. Define succession planning
2. Use competencies to define organizational succession requirements
3. Follow a step by step process to plan succession within their organization
4. State the key elements of a performance management process
5. Identify the working characteristics of an assessment centre
6. Assess individual competency levels
7. Link succession planning with manpower planning and career development planning
8. Design Individual Development Plans
9. Introduce a system of mentoring and coaching within the organization

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

All managers who are responsible for career development and succession planning within their organization.

PROGRAM TOPICS:

• Introduction to succession planning
• The costs of avoiding succession planning
• Openness of succession planning
• Decision making:  hiring or training for positions
• The value of work experience for managerial ability
• Disaster planning
• Helping to promote organizational excellence
• Succession planning tools and processes
• Competencies in succession planning
• How to identify potential within individuals
• Fast-track routes for some individuals
• Performance management
• Assessment centers
• 360 degree feedback
• Human resource planning tools
• Manpower planning and career development planning
• Designing Individual Development Plans
• Clarifying mentoring and coaching
• The value of a mentor
• Identifying mentors
• Coaching skills
• Coaching:  a way of life within the organization