Succession planning involves more than just the HR department or managers. There must be a top-down commitment to planning for growth as well as minimizing talent shortages.

Why mentorship is essential to succession planning — even for HR pros Succession is “a sunsetting time” to answer questions, among other things, an outgoing HR executive told HR Dive.

However, succession planning involves more than just HR paperwork. A leader’s successor must be aware of the company’s or department’s short- and long-term performance goals and be able to ...

Lafley makes clear that succession planning is just as important as governance, enterprise risk and strategic oversight. In other words, it is just as important.

HR managers spend more time on succession plans for their agencies than they do for their own offices, the survey found. Eighty-six percent of HR professionals surveyed reported some succession ...

If you start thinking of it as a risk plan, then you have more than just the 'ready now' team names in the plan. It becomes a list of people to headhunt, return from retirement, boomerang back home, ...

When I asked the group whether they felt senior HR professionals were becoming victims of the success of their own succession planning and talent management programmes, there were a number of ...

When it comes to planning your talent streams, employers need to stop falling into the “just like me” syndrome. Speaking to Peter Demangos, CEO and co-founder of SuccessionHR, he tells HRD that the ...

Well, that’s the kiss of death, right there. It’s not that HR isn’t competent enough to do it. It’s just that one of the key things about succession planning is that to do it well, to do it right, ...