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When you think of your IT organization, do you think of a rigorous succession planning program? Probably not, because there are a couple of other priorities on a weekly basis, generally associated with being forced to do too much with too few resources.
Time to rethink priorities. Succession planning is not just planning how to replace senior executives, the old school strategy. Today succession planning is a program used to be prepared to replace any manager to minimize disruption to the organization – and the projects and workers within it.
But there’s more! Because succession planning employs training, mentoring and job rotation to prepare replacements, the highest performing managers are motivated to stay in the first place. Career paths arise from their intranet coffins and come alive! Evberyone is motivated to improve their skills. The organization even reduces the loss of intellectual capital from retiring experts.
Evidently, more organizations have caught on to this. Novations just reported that almost half of the large organizations they surveyed reported expanding succession planning beyond the C-level (summary article here). You should utilize succession planning to its fullest.
Posted on: March 18, 2008 10:45 PM |
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