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Raise the bar on your organization’s succession management plan.

Succession Planning: Six Steps to Get You Started

Remember the days when succession planning focused only on replacing leaders in the event of a sudden accident or death? Many organizational succession management systems still do. Succession management theory may have evolved, but succession planning has not kept pace.

Statistics show that an overwhelming number of organizations do not have a meaningful succession plan. In fact, fifty percent of organizations with revenues greater than $500 million do not have a working succession plan. These figures make it easier to rationalize inaction, but they’re not going to help your organization achieve its strategic goals.

You need strategic leadership talent management to make sure your organization has the global human capital to perpetually adapt, respond, and succeed in an evolving business environment. Your strategy must focus on key talent pools whose performance makes the organization effective in the marketplace. Strategic talent management embraces selection, development, and performance to recognize potential and keep a steady supply of people moving up and across the organization.

What does it take to make succession management work? Here are two resources to get you started.

Getting Succession Right: Six Essential Elements of Effective Succession Plans
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Grow Your Leadership Pipeline
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Succession Outcomes: Raise the Bar, Get Better Results

Succession management processes and systems encompass many issues, from start-up and governance to identifying and transitioning leaders to new roles. As in all complex systems, barriers seem to multiply.

In October, PDI Ninth House was a lead sponsor for The Conference Board’s Breaking Through Barriers to Achieve the True Potential of Succession Management. Our high potential leadership experts, Cori Hill and Allen Moore, led a pre-conference seminar, Identifying, Engaging, Developing, Retaining, and Deploying Your High-Potential Leaders. Download an excerpt from their presentation. Dave Heine, PDI Ninth House, and Stephen Cerrone, Sara Lee Corporation, addressed a packed house with their general session on proven succession management strategies.

Dave and Stephen also presented Succession Management: Proven Strategies to Impact Your Organization, a webinar with Human Capital Institute (HCI). Listen to the recording to hear how the Sara Lee Corporation improved the link between their succession process and business strategy, and to gain insights into success strategies based on similar work across a variety of organizations.

Leadership Solutions for Succession Management

Top organizations align leadership talent with business goals to create and sustain success in a competitive market. We provide a full range of consulting and offerings to help your organization identify gaps, improve processes, and strengthen your leadership pipeline. Learn More

Client Solutions In Action

VSE Corporation
Learn how VSE implemented a rigorous program to develop leaders, create a solid succession management program, and turn the culture into one of collaboration and strategic risk taking.
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TD Williamson
With plans to double in size by 2015, executives of Tulsa, Oklahoma-based global pipeline and equipment services firm TD Williamson knew they couldn’t leave the identification, assessment, and development of current and future leaders to chance. Read Client Story

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