Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Introduction to Career Management and Succession Planning
- Careers Today: The Importance of Development
- Definition of Career Development
- Essential Elements in an Integrated Career Development System
- Definition of Succession Planning
- Main Aims and Reasons for Establishing a Succession Planning and Management System
- 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
- Roleof Human Resources
- Role of Line Managers
- Role of Top Management
- Role of Developees
Identifying High Potentials
- 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
- 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
