Best Practices in Succession Management: Sustainable Talent Management Practices that Drive Business Results

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Detailed Overview/Outline

Succession management is the critical determinant of future success for organizations. Too often, however, succession planning is left to the last moment. Ideally, the process should start with the selection and retention of those individuals who hold critical positions where vacancies have a negative impact on bottom-line results. Having the right people positioned for succession can ensure short-term success and longevity in the market.

This session is co-chaired by Bill Rothwell, succession expert and editor of Linkage's Best Practices in Succession Management published by Pfeiffer, Andy Goodman, Linkage EVP of Talent Management, and Phil Harkins, CEO of Linkage. The Forum focuses on how to avoid the upheavals of critical vacancies in key positions, and compare best-practice succession management case studies to your business plan.

Bring your own real-life succession challenges and work with experts, business leaders that have successfully implemented key practices in their organizations, and other participants to learn high-impact methods and tools that will enable you to close the critical gaps in your succession planning.

Who Should Attend
Business Leaders and internal OD professionals who work in partnership with business leaders on succession.

What you will learn

• Key trends from Linkage's research and upcoming publications that are influencing the future of succession management and planning
• How to get the right leaders at the top of your organization
• How to retain talent as a competitive advantage
• How to implement the correct succession plan for your organization to achieve breakthrough success

This session will feature best practice succession case study presentations with tangible results by business leaders WHO CONTRIBUTED TO Linkage's new book, Best Practices in Succession Management. Representative cases featured in the book include:

• Bright Horizons
• CIGNA
• Honeywell
• Lockheed Martin
• Merrill Lynch
• Purina
• Unilever

Length: 2 Days

Registration and Cancellation Policy
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Workshop Prohibitions: Any unauthorized use of the copyrighted Linkage materials that participants receive at any Linkage training program is strictly prohibited. Solicitation of business from fellow workshop participants is also strictly prohibited. External consultants will be asked to sign a nondisclosure form indicating their agreement with the above.

Sponsor Background:
Linkage Inc. is the leading provider of corporate education and consulting for human resource, human resource development, organizational development and training professionals worldwide.

As leaders in human resources, organizational development, and training, people look to you to help them advance in their careers. It's your job to help them drive organizational performance through human performance.

At Linkage, Inc., the mission of our public workshops is to provide training that helps you perform better in your jobs so you, in turn, can help others do the same. Our workshop leaders are human resource experts and seasoned trainers. They spend most of their time in industry working with the same HRD and OD issues that you face every day. We are passionate about developing HR performance in the workplace, and we'd like to share what we've learned with you.

Through our skill-building workshops, we can help you develop your ability to:

• Design, manage, and participate in your company's competency efforts
• Develop and manage leadership programs for your organization
• Develop yourself and others as internal champions of coaching and mentoring
• Develop yourself, others, and an organizational capacity for internal consulting
• Assess, measure, and evaluate the performance of your people and your organization

Instructor(s):
WILLIAM J. ROTHWELL, PH.D., PHIL HARKINS, ANDREW GOODMAN

Instructor Background:

CO-CHAIR: WILLIAM J. ROTHWELL, PH.D., recognized globally as an expert on management and succession planning, he served as the National Thought Leader for a 2001 Best Practices study of succession that examined 18 multinational corporations. A Professor of Human Resource Development at Pennsylvania State University, Rothwell's well-known publications include Effective Succession Planning, The Action Learning Guidebook, and The Competency Toolkit, to name a few.

CO-CHAIR: PHIL HARKINS is president, CEO, and chairman of the board of directors of Linkage, Inc., the company that he founded in 1988. Phil is also an internationally-known expert in the fields of organizational development, leadership, communications, and executive coaching. His clients include senior executives and teams at leading organizations worldwide. All told, Phil has worked with leaders, leadership teams, and boards in more than 25 countries located in Asia, North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. In addition, along with leadership expert and Linkage board member Warren Bennis, Phil is co-chair of The Global Institute For Leadership Development, which has trained and developed more than 4,000 leaders from around the world.

ANDREW GOODMAN serves as executive vice president of Linkage, Inc. and leads its Talent Management practice. Andrew has over 20 years of experience in the Executive Search and Staffing industries and last served as COO of a 75M professional services firm specializing in executive search and interim professional staffing.

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