Course details

This unit addresses the skills and knowledge required to create and develop a succession strategy and process within an organisation. It covers understanding the organisation’s strategic, people and capability needs and the identification of critical organisation roles.

  1. Develop a succession management strategy
  2. Identify critical organisational roles and feeder positions
  3. Manage succession process
  4. Evaluate succession management programme

Learning Outcomes

  1. Develop a succession management strategy
    • Consult stakeholders to identify their expectations regarding succession management
    • Develop strategies for managing succession that is aligned with organisational objectives and needs and other people management/human capital programmes
    • Communicate succession management strategies to stakeholders to generate buy-in and build ownership
  2. Identify critical organisational roles and feeder positions
    • Consult with stakeholders to identify critical roles
    • Develop profiles to document the requirements of the critical roles
    • Identify feeder positions within the organisation that can provide opportunities to groom successors
  3. Manage succession process
    • Identify successors for critical positions in the organisation by matching their profiles with the critical position profiles
    • Conduct a risk assessment for critical positions and document the outcomes
    • Work with managers and identified successors to create and document development and retention plans
  4. Evaluate succession management programme
    • Identify criteria to evaluate the performance of succession management programmes by defining specific measures to be used
    • Support the development of processes and systems to gather measurement data and feedback from key stakeholders
    • Monitor internal and external influences and trends that may impact on the succession management programme
    • Analyse data to refine the succession management programme
Updated on 08 November, 2015

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