Course Objectives
Career Development and Succession Planning - Virtual Learning
y 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
- Compare traditional HR focus with career planning-oriented HR focus
- Apply innovative corporate career development initiatives
- Prepare a comprehensive succession planning program
Target Audience
Human resources managers, line managers, HR business partners, team leaders and specialists.
Target Competencies
- Analytical thinking
- Planning and organizing
- Achieving goals and objectives
- Formulating concepts and strategies
Course Outline
- Putting people first
- Putting people before numbers
- People’s wants versus organizations’ wants
- The war for talent
- Traditional focus versus career development focus
- The basics of career management and succession planning and management
- Definition of career development
- The career development process
- Definition of succession planning
- Distinguishing succession planning from replacement planning
- Identifying high potentials
- Key positions: High potentials and high professionals
- Assessing individual potential
- Best practices to improve the management of high potentials
- Competencies: the foundation for career development
- Developing internal successors
- Starting the systematic succession planning and management program
- Assessing present and future work requirements
- Individual Development Plan (IDP)