In organisational development, succession planning is the process of identifying and preparing suitable employees to replace key people, such as the CEO, when theses key people themselves change position or retire.
Succession planning involves having senior executives periodically review their top executives and those in the next lower level to determine several backups for each senior position. This is important because it often takes years of grooming to develop effective senior managers.
Succession planning also helps you to retain your staff and keep them motivated as they can see the time, attention and effort that you are investing in them. If staff can see that they are being groomed to fill more senior roles in the years to come it will encourage them to work harder
for you and become more dedicated to your organisation
In order for you to be able to ensure that all key positions have numerous potential successors and that these successors have a clearly defined career path through the organisation you need a software solution created specifically for this purpose. To find out more about how HR Now
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Career Planning
Career Planning involves creating a training and development plan for an employee to meet their needs. These needs are made up of the employee's short term and long term goals as well as those of the organisation. Career plans are created for an employee
following on from a process of employee assessment and organisational planning.
Having a career plan helps to keep a person focused on the task in hand whilst also encouraging them to be forward thinking. A career plan will show an employee that hard work with in the organisation will be rewarded with promotion and continued skill development.
From an organisations point of view ensuring that all employees have career plans helps the organisation to budget for the costs of training, plan for their recruitment needs and ensure that all succession plans can be implemented. To see this process in action and to see how our software
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