SUCCESSION PLANNING

This is the classic ‘what happens when Chris falls under the bus’ scenario. Is your business geared up to fill a vacancy when it arises unexpectedly? Some of your key people may be on short notice periods. What happens if they suddenly decide to leave? Do you have someone ready and available to fill their shoes?

Blue Star Human Resources can help by putting in place a simple and effective succession planning approach in your business

Together we can:

• identify an appropriate succession planning process for your business that maps your current skills and future requirements and gets the right people, in the right place at the right time.
• put in place a plan for resourcing key roles in your business by mapping the business with current post holders and those identified as able to ‘fill their shoes’ with timescales.
• identify ways to motivate and retain key workers identified through this process.
• train managers in the use of succession planning and how they can recognise key roles and key people.
• recognise ‘high flyers’ and develop them with a view to filling identified key roles in the future.
• identify the barriers to succession planning in your business and put in place plans to overcome them.
• use the succession planning process to identify the business risk of key people moving on and know how to act accordingly.
• decide where it would be desirable to fill a job externally to encourage new talent entering the organisation.
• review the succession plan on a regular basis.
• decide the best way of communicating the contents of the plan to employees.

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