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Career Development And Succession Planning

MH139

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60% of organizations have no process for succession planning. This interactive course will enable you to consider the latest methodologies and strategies related to successful engagement, career development and succession planning. The course is also designed to provide tips to create a clear career path and helpbuild your bench. In addition, it will help youplan a succession strategy for a flexible andsustainable business.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Demonstrate understanding of the basics of career development and succession planning
  • Distinguish succession planning and management from replacement planning, talent management and human capital management
  • Compare traditional HR focus with career planning oriented HR focus
  • Explain the role of employee and employer in career development
  • Applyinnovative corporate career development initiatives
  • Evaluate and operate an effective succession planning program to close the developmental gaps in the organization
  • Prepare individual development plans and manage career choices

Human resources managers, line managers, HR business partners, team leaders and specialists.

  • Putting people first
    • Putting people before numbers
    • People’s wants from their organizations
    • Organizations’ wants
    • The war for talent
    • Today's top priorities in HR
    • Disengagement and the downward performance spiral
    • People based strategy
    • HR activities: traditional focus versus career development focus
  • The basics of career management and succession planning and management
    • Careers today: the importance of development
    • Definition of career development
    • The career development process and linksto HR
    • Essential elements in an integrated career development system
    • Definition of succession planning
    • Main aims and reasons for establishing a succession planning and management system
    • Distinguishing succession planning from replacement planning
  • Organizational readiness for change
    • Promoting a development culture
    • Characteristics of a development culture
    • Career development as a change agent
    • Roles and responsibilities in a development culture
    • Role of human resources
    • Role of line managers
    • Role of top management
    • Role of developees
  • Identifying high potentials
    • Key positions
    • High potentials and high professionals
    • Assessing individual potential
    • Best practices to improve the management of high potentials
    • Qualities of processes to spot, develop, and retain high potentials
  • Career development: tools and methodologies
    • Competencies: the foundation for career development
    • Competencies framework
    • Coaching: an essential managerial function
    • Mentoring: a must have system for career development
    • Career counseling services
  • Developing internal successors
    • Making the business case for succession planning and management
    • Starting the systematic succession planning and management program
    • Refining the program
    • Assessing present work requirements and individual job performance
    • Assessing future work requirements and individual potential
    • Closing the development gap: the Individual Development Plan (IDP)
    • Designing the individual development plan
  • Presentation & Slides
  • Audio Visual Aids
  • Interactive Discussion
  • Participatory Exercise
  • Action Learning
  • Class Activities
  • Case Studies
  • Workshops
  • Simulation

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