Succession Planning In A Time Of Crisis

About The Event

Planning for an unexpected absence or loss of a key person is an important component of enterprise risk management. Therefore, effective risk management requires identifying the individuals within the organization who have the skills and experience to immediately and effectively fill any gaps.

The heart of succession planning is identifying and building your future leadership at all levels. Through your succession planning process, you recruit superior employees, develop their knowledge, skills, and abilities, and prepare them for advancement into ever more challenging roles. This will guarantee that you have a strong leadership bench on hand and ready to fill new or vacated roles.

How effectively are you finding and developing your organization’s future leaders?

Areas Covered

Succession planning isn't just naming the new CEO. In fact, it's not about putting a name behind a title at all. That's called replacement planning.  And when it is only used during times of crisis - when a company has to name somebody to fill a vacant role quickly - that's not succession planning either. That's crisis management.

The goal of succession planning is to continuously identify and develop high-performing leaders capable of meeting the present and future needs of the organization. It should include a formal identification process supported by leadership development that builds leadership capacity within the organization. 

Organizations are only as strong as their leaders. High performing organizations make leadership development, at all levels, a top priority. So how does your organization shape up? Which of the top best practices from high performance companies are being used in your organization to develop leaders? Which of these practices should you consider adopting to develop your future leaders?

Succession planning will continue to become more integrated into the everyday life of organizations, moving from a formal ‘annual event’ to become a part of the daily fabric of doing business. This webinar will cover these key areas for effective succession planning.

• How to identify your potential leaders who can assume greater responsibility in the organization
• The variety and impact of various development experiences to those that can move into key roles
• How to engage the leadership in supporting the development of high-potential leaders.

Learning Objectives

The focus of this webinar is to learn the elements of effective succession planning and will include these six objectives.

• Discover the seven deadly sins of succession planning: What not to do!
• Examine the pros and cons of insiders vs outsiders to fill specific positions: Which is better?
• Understand the 70-20-10 rule for developing your future leaders: What it is and how to use it.
• Identify the 10 best practices that high performing organizations use for grooming outstanding leaders
• Review the 5 steps that must be followed to build a culture that supports development from the top down
• Utilize the Center for Creative Leadership’s 3 key elements for successful leadership development: Assessment – Challenge -Support

Bonus Handout: 40 Ways to Develop Your Talent for Future Positions from The Center for Creative Leadership

Who Should Attend

CEO’s, COO’s, VP of Human Resources, Chief Learning Officer, Directors, Project Managers, Operation Managers and Supervisors, Team Leaders, Human Resources Professionals. Managers and Supervisors, talent management professionals,