A course on how to plan for succession (Online / Remote)
1Summary
Arab British Fellowship Training Academy offers a course on how to plan for employee succession. Succession planning is the process of identifying an organization's critical roles and potential successors, then equipping them with the skills and experience needed for current and future opportunities, helping the organization sustain its success both now and in the future through an effective plan for its key positions.
Succession planning is essential for ensuring business continuity and job satisfaction by preparing and developing promising employees, accelerating their career progression, and enabling a smooth transition into higher technical and professional roles when needed. This course guides participants through building a realistic succession plan that delivers the required business results even in the absence of key team members.
2Objectives and target group
Objectives of the How to Plan for Succession course:
Participants in this course will gain the following benefits:
- Guiding participants on who can keep the business running in an emergency, how to do so, and how the permanent replacement will be funded.
- Understanding the basics of career development and succession planning
- Distinguishing between succession management/planning, replacement planning, talent management, and human capital management
- Comparing traditional activity-focused HR with HR focused on career-path planning
- Evaluating and running an effective succession-planning program to close developmental gaps in the organization
- Preparing individual development plans and managing career options
- Decision-making and taking action; working with others
- Communications and relationships; professional development; presenting and communicating
- Analytical thinking; succession planning
- Planning and organizing; achieving goals and objectives
Target audience for the How to Plan for Succession course:
- Managers in the HR department
- HR staff and staff in all other departments
- Organizational staff wanting to learn more about succession planning and about identifying the competencies and work skills needed to achieve the desired goals.
- Graduates and those interested in this field
3Course Content
- Introductions and icebreakers
- Why succession planning?
- The benefits of effective succession planning
- Benefits for the employer and the employee
- Succession planning
- Setting measurable goals to guide the succession program
- Assessing changing competitive and organizational conditions and priorities.
- Developing competency models
- The identification phase
- Identifying roles
- Identifying required competencies
- Identifying gaps
- Creating a leadership environment
- Developing future leaders
- The right training
- A leader-development model
- Evaluating the succession plan on a regular annual basis
- Success in succession planning
- How to recruit people and retain capabilities.
- How to identify the skills and competencies needed for current and future roles.
- Developing a realistic succession plan.
Course delivery mode:
- In-house training
- Individual training
- Group training
- Practical training
Note:
- We can deliver this course at a time that suits you.
- This course is delivered to high standards for VIPs. For more information, contact the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy team.