| COURSE DESCRIPTION: It’s your worst nightmare come true: A key employee suddenly quits, becomes disabled, or dies and you realize he or she is the ONLY person who knew how to perform a mission-critical function in your company. It could be a senior executive, or even a rank-and-file worker. At worst, you instantly start missing deadlines, losing customers and bleeding cash. At the very least, your organization is thrown into chaos as other employees play catch up, learning unfamiliar processes and functions, cramming weeks of training and learning into days.
Smart companies never let this happen. They do what’s called “succession planning.” Or, better still, they create a “succession culture,” where the emphasis is on developing talent for internal career growth at every level. You’d think this would be a bread-and-butter risk management practice at every company. But it’s not. Succession planning remains widely underutilized and misunderstood.
Join us to increase your practical understanding of how to help your organization create or improve existing succession planning practices and to develop a succession culture that fosters employee development at all levels.
Participants will learn:
- The key principles of succession planning and how to create a “succession culture” that vastly minimizes your company's risk
- The correlation between long-term organizational profitability and bench strength -- both at the leadership and rank-and-file levels
- How two real organizations met the challenges of implementing a succession management program
- How to quantify risk and communicate the business case for succession planning to your management team
- How to train your supervisors and other company leaders to implement succession planning tactics and strategies
- A method for defining the scope of succession planning appropriate to current organizational needs
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:Steve Knight is Executive Vice President, Senior Consultant and Partner at Integral Talent Systems, Inc. (ITS), a talent management-consulting firm based in Palo Alto, California. Steve has more than 25 years of experience in consulting on talent retention, leadership, succession and management development. He has served clients such as CompuCredit, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, KLA -Tencor, Omnicom, Interpublic Group as well as many other organizations. Steve holds a B.S. in psychology and a M. Div. in non-profit organizational behavior. He serves on several boards including The Challenge Learning Center and The Kings Mountain Education Fund.
 HRCI CERTIFICATION: This program has been approved for 1.0 recertification credit hour toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage.
MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE: We’re so confident you’ll get what you want out of this conference that we’ll refund your full fee if you’re not satisfied. It’s risk-free.
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