SUCCESSION PLANNING. Without Succession Planning Marking & Developing Select Successor.
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Your Presenter What I do:• Support leaders building core skills; gain confidence
in their presence, relationships, communication and leadership capabilities.
How I do it:• Executive/Leadership Coaching• Career Coaching
Who I do it with: • Executives• HIPOs and High Performers• Emerging Leaders
Why I do it:• When leaders find their groove, their actions create
positive ripples throughout the organization.
Lynn DessertExecutive Career Coach
www.LeadershipBreakthrough.com
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Learning Objectives• How to develop key talking points to engage Senior
Management• Understand the major steps in the succession planning
process• How to create integrated development plans for
participants• How to identify metrics to measure success
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© 2015 Leadership Breakthrough, Inc.
Recruiting the best talent while maintaining the talent we have within our company.
HR Coordinator
Succession Planning vs. Replacement Planning• Succession Planning is a forward thinking, systematic
approach to:• Pinpoint critical management and leadership positions• Identify performance gaps between talent and business strategy
requirements• Ascertain readiness of talent to assume leadership roles• Prepare employees to assume higher levels of responsibility
• Replacement Planning is reactionary in nature or seen as a risk management measure
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Approaches to Succession Planning
Strategic
Market-Driven
Top-Down
Event Driven
Career Planning
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© 2015 Leadership Breakthrough, Inc.
I'm a team of 1 and other things require my attention, but it's something that desperately needs to be done.
Secondly, I don't know where or how to begin.
Director of Human Resources
Succession Planning for OrganizationsClarify CEO’s Expectations
Top Management Participation/Buy-In
Identify Future Talent Requirements
Comprehensive Assessment Process
Align Performance Management System
Structured Individualized Development
Programs
Monitoring of Talent Databases for
Decision-Making
Measuring Results
Communication
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Clarify CEO Expectations
Clarify CEO’s Expectations
Top Management Participation/Buy-In
Identify Future Talent Requirements
Comprehensive Assessment Process
Align Performance Management System
Structured Individualized Development
Programs
Monitoring of Talent Databases for
Decision-Making
Measuring Results
Communication
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Clarify CEO’s Expectations• Succession Planning Process
• Tie to Business Strategies and Outcomes• Competitiveness• Growth• Pivot turn
• Intent• Critical talent development • Bench strength identification• Short to long term talent requirement changes
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Clarify CEO’s Expectations• Scope
• CEO• C-Suite• High Potential Employees• Critical Skills
• Depth• C+1, C+2, C+3
• Level of Commitment/Roles• CEO• Executives – VP/Directors• Managers• HR Resources• External Resources
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Top Management Buy-In
Clarify CEO’s Expectations
Top Management Participation/Buy-In
Identify Future Talent Requirements
Comprehensive Assessment Process
Align Performance Management System
Structured Individualized Development
Programs
Monitoring of Talent Databases for
Decision-Making
Measuring Results
Communication
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Top Management Participation and Buy-In
Outcomes
Time
Energy
Resources
Opportunities
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Identify Future Talent RequirementsClarify CEO’s Expectations
Top Management Participation/Buy-In
Identify Future Talent
Requirements
Comprehensive Assessment Process
Align Performance Management System
Structured Individualized Development
Programs
Monitoring of Talent Databases for
Decision-Making
Measuring Results
Communication
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© 2015 Leadership Breakthrough, Inc.
What would you recommend as an approach to a succession planning discussion?
What questions would you ask to best inform us to meet our internal client’s future staffing needs?
Director of Human Resources
Future Talent Requirements
Critical Skills• Identify
Competencies• Define• Document
Critical Skill Gaps
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Comprehensive Assessment ProcessClarify CEO’s Expectations
Top Management Participation/Buy-In
Identify Future Talent Requirements
Comprehensive Assessment
Process Align Performance
Management System
Structured Individualized Development
Programs
Monitoring of Talent Databases for
Decision-Making
Measuring Results
Communication
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Comprehensive Assessment Process
Identify Talent Pools
Competency Identification
Assessments• 360-Degree Feedback• Leadership• Emotional Intelligence• Learning Agility• Values
Predicting Success
Focus on pools of people vs. specific job titles or roles.
Analyze talent internally and externally for optimal results.
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Align Performance Management SystemClarify CEO’s Expectations
Top Management Participation/Buy-In
Identify Future Talent Requirements
Comprehensive Assessment Process
Align Performance Management
System
Structured Individualized Development
Programs
Monitoring of Talent Databases for
Decision-Making
Measuring Results
Communication
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Establish or Align Performance Management System
Clear Outcomes
Defined Competencies
Demonstrated Behaviors
Constructive Feedback
Desired Results
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Structured IDPsClarify CEO’s Expectations
Top Management Participation/Buy-In
Identify Future Talent
Requirements
Comprehensive Assessment
Process
Align Performance Management
System
Structured Individualized Development
Programs
Monitoring of Talent Databases for
Decision-Making
Measuring Results
Communication
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© 2015 Leadership Breakthrough, Inc.
How to overcome a hesitant target for a successor and on the other side?
How to chill out someone who really thinks they should be the successor?
Divisional CFO
Structured Individualized Development Programs
First Supervisory Experience
Project/Task Force
Line to Staff Switches
Starting Something
from Scratch
Fix-it/Turnarounds
Leaps in Scope
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The Lessons of Experience How Successful Executives Develop on the Job
Morgan W. McCall, Michael M. Lombardo, Ann M. Morrison
Structured Individualized Development Programs
Lecture
Reading
Audio-Visual
Demonstration
Discussion Group
Proactive by Doing
Teach Others/Immediate Use
The Learning PyramidNational Training Laboratories, Bethel, Main
5%
10%
20%
30%
50%
75%
90%
Average Retention Rates
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Specific Development/Learning Strategies• Planned job assignments• Formal development programs• Coaching• Mentoring• Assessment and feedback• Action learning projects• Communities of practice• Shadowing
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Talent DatabasesClarify CEO’s Expectations
Top Management Participation/Buy-In
Identify Future Talent Requirements
Comprehensive Assessment Process
Align Performance Management System
Structured Individualized Development
Programs
Monitoring of Talent
Databases for Decision-Making
Measuring Results
Communication
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Monitoring of Database for Decision Making Criteria
Employee Data
Performance
Competencies
Demographics
Education
Experience
Career Interests
Assessment Results
Developmental Assignments
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Measuring ResultsClarify CEO’s Expectations
Top Management Participation/Buy-In
Identify Future Talent Requirements
Comprehensive Assessment Process
Align Performance Management System
Structured Individualized Development
Programs
Monitoring of Talent Databases for
Decision-Making
Measuring Results
Communication
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Measuring Results
HIPOT Satisfaction
Program Progress
Effective Placements
Organization Results
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Measuring Results• Rate of Promotion• Organization’s Ability to Fill Leadership Roles Internally• 360-Degree Feedback Results• Performance Evaluations• Employee Retention/Turnover• Percentage of Employees Completing Program• Survey of HIPOT Employees and Participating Leaders
and Stakeholders• Direct Interviews• Evaluating post program landing success• Assessing and responding to changing needs
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CommunicationClarify CEO’s Expectations
Top Management Participation/Buy-In
Identify Future Talent Requirements
Comprehensive Assessment Process
Align Performance Management System
Structured Individualized Development
Programs
Monitoring of Talent Databases for
Decision-Making
Measuring Results
Communication
© 2015 Leadership Breakthrough, Inc.
© 2015 Leadership Breakthrough, Inc.
In our small environment the biggest challenge has been to convey the plan to our employees in a way that is
acceptable to all.
Some may think they should have been the name placed in succession.
Program Services Coordinator
Program Communication
Rigor and visibility to the process; steps up
accountability
Senior Management demonstrates strong
commitment to leadership development
Actively involved HIPOs are more likely to succeed
Key talent retention
Constructive Open
Communication
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Successful Program ComponentsManagement
üIdentifies specific outcomesüGrounded in business needsüClear program managementüCommunicationüCorrect employee selectionüFollows a systematic and
consistent methodologyüUnbiased management
assessment
Employee
üRealistic ProjectsüUnderstanding RoleüTraining and
DevelopmentüClear path to successüEmployee’s ability to deal
with pace of programüPeer Mentoring
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Questions to Ponder• What impact is there in your organization for not doing a
succession planning process or executing it poorly?
• How can you retrofit the succession planning process to your organization’s culture?
• Is your organization ready? If not, what do you need to do to prepare it?
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