Succession
Planning
Ensuring Your Business Sustainability
Are Your Leaders Ready?
When a tough business challenge comes along, who will step up? When retirements happen, do you have leaders ready to jump in? Succession management can often fall low on the priority list, until one or more key leaders leave suddenly. And that’s when leaders start making fast decisions about who can fill in, without always making sure they’re truly ready.
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From frontline managers up to your CEO, Human Talent Development works with you to create a data-driven succession management strategy. So, you won't have to guess who's ready. You'll know.
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This program is necessary for company to maintain their sustainability and growth. That’s why in this program we embedded the following:
Promote Based on Data
You need data to make objective decisions about who is ready for promotion and who has leadership potential. With Human Talent Development assessments, you get rich data and validated results, all while ensuring your evaluation process is fair.
The result? A fair process for promotion, more diversity in your pipeline, and agility to face new business challenges.
Better Data. Better Leaders.
At Human Talent Development, we’re all about the science of leadership. And we believe that objective data is the key to great leadership. With our leadership assessments, you can feel confident about which leaders to hire and promote. And more importantly? You'll know exactly what they need to work on to develop into even better leaders.
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We’ve poured every ounce of our 40 years of research into building assessments that are accurate, engaging, and deeply insightful.
Our assessments can help you:
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Reduce bias in hiring and promotion decisions
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Accurately predict job performance
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Create personalized development plans
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Gain a holistic view of leaders’ skills, strength and weakness
Define Success Profiles
It’s About the Whole Person
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The perfect resume doesn’t mean a perfect job fit. Too often, companies hire only for knowledge and experience. But they overlook the skills and personal attributes that really determine success. That’s why companies need to build holistic Success Profiles for a role before they even post the job.
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At Human Talent Development, we have more than 4 decades of experience helping companies develop Success Profiles to make sure they get the right people in the right roles. The result? People get up to speed faster. They contribute more. They stay longer. And that creates a competitive advantage.
How Success Profiles Add Business Value
Success Profiles connect business strategy to your people strategy. Every Success Profile is created with your company’s unique business drivers in mind. As a result, you can target candidates who will thrive in your culture and drive your strategy.
And you can communicate a clear message about job expectations to everyone in the company.
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Success Profiles also help you fully document the process behind hiring and promotion decisions. That way, you can be clear about why candidates were chosen for roles at every level of the organization.
Spot Future Leaders Before They Leave You
There’s a good chance you’re overlooking leadership potential in your individual contributors. The consequence? Overlooked future leaders could run to a competitor.
The Early Identifier is an online leadership potential assessment that gives potential leaders the chance to experience challenges they may not have encountered before. Effectively, they’re “trying on” the job. 
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This assessment blends results both from the leadership scenarios and with the personality traits and motivational factors we've identified as essential to success. Afterward, you can use this data for more targeted development and strategy decisions.
Engage and Retain Future Leaders
The top three predictors of retention? Manager support, job challenge, and career growth opportunity. Early Identifier measures these things to see where the company can improve.
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Even more importantly, potential leaders will get a glimpse of what a leadership role may be like. If it's something they want to pursue, they'll get a clear report showing what they need to work on to get there. Not only that, their manager will know how to support them. So, they'll be ready to kickstart their leadership careers.
Build the Next Generation
Leaders excel when they have ownership over their development. This assessment provides candid insights and practical tips to help them make their growth their own.
Further, Early Identifier gives stakeholders data to improve selection decisions and give insight into long-term bench strength. It's a win-win for everyone involved. Engaged employees are less likely to leave, and the company can forecast long-term bench strength.
