Succession Planning – Bonnie Hagemann

Succession planning ensures that there are highly qualified people in all of your mission critical positions—not just today, but tomorrow, next year, and five years from now. These rich talent review sessions help leaders understand their current bench strength and make plans for improvement. In this course, learn the step-by-step process for implementing and facilitating a robust succession planning process. Discover how to build an approach that will allow your organization to keep its leadership pipeline full and flowing. Having the right people in the right places will ensure that your talent is your competitive advantage.

Topics include:

• Tying succession planning to your organization’s long-term goals
• Identifying your mission-critical positions
• Assembling succession committees
• Determining who to include in succession discussions
• Deciding on potential successors
• Presenting your plan to senior leaders
• Establishing succession metrics

• Introduction
• 1. Getting Started
• 2. Who to Include in Succession Discussions
• 3. Deciding on Potential Successors
• 4. Documentation and Metrics
• Conclusion

Bonnie Hagemann is the CEO of Executive Development Associates.

Hagemann has over 16 years of experience in successfully leading consulting firms, and 26 years of experience coaching, educating, and developing leaders. She has worked in most industries, coached 12 large company CEOs and 232 additional leaders, and has given over 300 presentations. She leads biennial research on trends in executive development, and has over 40 published works, including a book on shifting workforce demographics and their impact on leadership—Decades of Differences: Making It Work—and a new book entitled Leading with Vision: The Leader’s Blueprint for Creating a Compelling Vision and Engaging the Workforce. She is also called upon by respected media outlets as a subject matter expert, and is often quoted in publications such as Financial Times, Chief Executive, Forbes, Fast Company, and the Wall Street Journal.