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.

What is succession planning? Succession planning is a process that determines critical roles within an organization, identifies and assesses possible successors, and provides them with the appropriate skills and experience for present and future opportunities.

A sound succession planning system can provide the information you need to answer the question, “Who’s ready to fill that position today?” That’s because succession planning is about preparing employees to assume new leadership roles. Should someone vacate a vital position with the company, another employee is skilled and ready to step up to that role without delay. Succession planning can also help develop a diverse workforce, by enabling senior management to look at the future goals of the organization as a whole.

The SumTotal Career & Succession Planning module helps you identify top performers and high-potential employees. Available for both ResultsOnDemand – Performance and TotalPerformance deployments, this module gives you the innovative tools you need to retain employee knowledge and grow leaders.

Career & Succession Planning module - Key Features

• 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

Career & Succession Planning - Key Benefits

• SumTotal career & succession planning enables you to assess current talent, and plan for the future.
• Performance and potential ratings can be gathered through special purpose talent assessment surveys, or can be fed into the talent planning process from an existing performance appraisal.
• Data can also be imported from external systems to eliminate duplicate data entry and integrated with TotalPerformance data for a complete succession planning picture.
• Supervisors and HR have at-a-glance access to an employee's current position summary, targeted positions, and succession paths.
• An online resume—created and maintained by employees, supervisors and human resource administrators— can be accessed when searching the employee database for succession candidates.
  

ResultsOnDemand – Performance