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Career and Succession Planning

Effective succession planning is critical to strategic leadership development and to your ability to preserve valuable organizational knowledge—particularly as baby boomers begin to retire. You need an advanced career and succession planning system to help you prepare for the loss of incumbents and other changes that impact business continuity.

Available for both ResultsOnDemand – Performance and TotalPerformance deployments, the SumTotal Career and Succession Planning module gives you the innovative tools you need to retain employee knowledge and grow leaders.

The Career and Succession Planning module offers you:

  • Web-based access (on-demand or licensed)
  • Self-service online resume creation for employees
  • Ability for employees or managers to target positions
  • Searchable database functionality
  • Use of organizational chart, tabular, or other visual formats
  • Ability to incorporate employee photographs
  • Integration with your HRIS position/job management data with links to competencies and other qualifications
  • Interactive performance matrices you can customize with your specific data—i.e., performance vs. potential, flight risk vs. impact of loss
  • Customizable email reminders
  • Informative visual reports and dashboards