Talent Management and Succession Planning

Your organization’s greatest asset might be your staff, however if your fail nurture the talent within your organization you will start to loose your greatest assets. This course gives you the skills needed to preserve and grow these assets.

Any effective talent management programme within your organization must be build upon a strong talent management strategy. This course will develop your skills in crafting an effective talent management strategy.

The best performing organizations in the world all ensure there is adequate continuity especially at the leadership level. This course will develop your ability to design and deploy an effective succession management programme.

The course will wrap with a summary of the key learning points, followed by an action planning exercise with a view to apply the acquired knowledge and skills immediately upon your return to work. Post-course support is also available in relation to the implementation of your action plan, up to six (6) months following course completion.

Talent Management Essentials

• Defining talent management
• The elements of talent management
• Talent attraction, development and retention
• Career management

Talent Management Strategy

• What is talent? And what is talent management?
• The talent management process
• Crafting an effective talent management strategy
• Deploying your talent management strategy

Succession Planning

• Defining succession planning
• Strategic succession planning
• Your leadership pipeline
• Succession planning programme evaluation

Talent Management and Succession Planning Toolkit

• Conducting an environmental scan
• Gap analysis identifying critical positions
• Critical success factors

Course Review

• Summary and recap of key learning objectives
• Action Planning

This Talent Management course is suitable for:

• HR directors
• Heads of HR functions
• HR business partners
• Senior HR executives, managers, advisors and officers who wish to contribute to the development and implementation of HR strategy.
• Chief officers, Chairpersons, Board members, Company directors, Heads of Departments, and all those at the highest levels of an organization interested in developing an in-depth knowledge of strategic HRM.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Appreciate the importance of Talent management and succession planning in organizations.
• Develop successful talent management and succession planning strategies.
• Understand the use of talent management and succession planning tools at your disposal.
• Implement an Action Plan at your workplace using the knowledge and skills acquired through the course.