Many HR practitioners continue to help their organizations rebuild and prepare for a return to regular business. As part of this work, HR functions have been evaluating and making changes to their talent processes. One such process is succession planning (SP). Despite SP’s importance to an organization’s long term success, the pandemic may lead organizations …
Many HR organizations have had to reimagine and reprioritize their HR strategy, processes, and programs as a result of COVID-19. One such area is succession planning (SP). This article represents a summary of survey results on how organizations are/will modify their SP as a result of learnings from COVID-19. A few of the SP practices …
During the coronavirus crisis, many organizations became acutely aware of how the ability to manage talent risks and gaps is a vital talent capability. This realization has placed a greater priority on using data to effectively manage talent and make talent decisions. This article provides examples of how data can be used through three common …
Few would dispute the importance of succession planning (SP) to leadership continuity and safeguarding organizations from retention risk and turnover in key roles. And similar to other important HR-driven capabilities such as workforce planning, both the impact and criticality of SP is most often felt during times of crisis or emergencies–when organizations are upended from …
Succession planning (SuPl) is a vital business and talent practice that increases an organization’s likelihood of having a robust leadership pipeline. And although many reports over the last two years suggest that organizations still struggle with SuPl, this topic has become a more pressing issue amidst the coronavirus pandemic. This became evident with Jefferies CFO, …
In this 17-minute podcast, ideas are shared on how the risk of failure in job transitions continues to be surprisingly high. In particular, there are two primary types of risks: 1) Scope Risk – when the role requires someone to do something new or for the first time and 2) Scale Risk – when the …
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