Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Succession Planning - (Essential Knowledge Resource (Hardcover)) (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Plan For Your Organization's Success

Linkage's Best Practices for Succession Planning provides the ultimate guide for planning, developing, implementing, and sustaining succession planning in any organization. This must-have book provides step-by-step instructions, practical advice, templates, and tools from some of the world's best companies and Linkage, a global organization development company that specializes in leadership development.

Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices for Succession Planning is the comprehensive resource that includes information needed to


* Ensure that succession management is owned by business leaders rather than just HR
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Assess potential for future roles, not just track record of performance
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Manage succession data on individuals and talent pools
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Balance talent development and acquisition in achieving future objectives
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Develop the processes, tools, and organizational capabilities necessary to effectively implement and sustain the system
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Integrate succession planning systems with other businesses and HR systems in the organization to achieve efficiency, consistency, and impact

From the Back Cover

LINKAGE, INC.'S BEST PRACTICES FOR SUCCESSION PLANNING

IDENTIFYING AND DEVELOPING TOP TALENT are essential elements for any organization's long term success. However, putting in place an effective succession planning system can be a daunting process for many organizations.

Linkage's Best Practices for Succession Planning offers the case studies, strategies, and proven tools needed to create a solid succession plan that will enable organizations to examine leadership competencies and determine the steps needed to close leadership gaps. The book contains best practices and profiles what leading organizations--Bright Horizons, CIGNA, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Merrill Lynch, Purina, and Unilever--are doing to plan for succession and develop talent. Linkage's Best Practices for Succession Planning also includes a new methodology for succession planning, strategies for leadership progression and development, innovative tools, and a comprehensive resource guide.

Linkage's Best Practices for Succession Planning offers practical guidance based on Linkage's vast resources and helps organizations to

• Identify, develop, and retain top talent
• Assess future roles
• Integrate succession planning with other business and HR models within the organization
• Analyze bench strength
• Design the system
• Implement the plan
• Measure results

Written for chief human resource executives, heads of leadership development programs, human resource professionals, and consultants, Linkage's Best Practices for Succession Planning provides a flexible toolkit that can be adapted to the needs of any organization, whether their needs are small or large.

About the Author

The Editors

MARK R. SOBOL is the founding principal of Leadership Strategies International, Inc. and is part of A4SL Coaching and Consulting.

PHIL HARKINS is president, CEO, and chairman of the board of directors of Linkage, Inc., the company that he founded in 1988.

TERENCE CONLEY is executive vice president of human resources and corporate services for Cendant Corporation.

LINKAGE, INC. is a global organizational development company that specializes in leadership development. Linkage provides clients around the world with customized leadership development and strategic change solutions that include and integrate consulting, training, assessment, coaching, and benchmark research. Linkage also offers a full range of conferences, institutes, summits, public workshops, and distance learning programs on leading-edge topics in leadership, management, HR, and OD.