083: Talent Review Ain’t Succession Planning

Description

What happens when a senior executive leaves the organization? Succession planning is a way to answer this question. Executives use this process to identify employees who could potentially take over vacant roles that are critical to the continued success of an organization.

While succession planning applies to the top-level, critical roles (typically the top three career levels), talent review is another process that applies to almost all levels of an organization. In the literature, authors frequently describe talent review but label it as succession planning. Talent review ain’t succession planning; however, blending the two concepts isn’t necessarily a bad idea.

00:45 Part 1: Succession Planning

01:44 Part 2: Talent Review

03:28 Part 3: What Can Get You In Trouble

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Episode links

Note: Some of the following succession planning articles are about the talent review process or blends talent review and succession planning.

Training Industry February 2019 Issue: The Role of L&D in Succession Planning

The Talent Strategy Group: Your Potential Model is Wrong (or at least not right)

TLNT:

Why Your HiPo Program May Be a Waste of Time and Money

6 Steps to Great Talent Reviews

The Motivations and Behaviors That Define High Potential Employees

Corporate Executive Board: What Makes a High-Potential?Quite Possibly Not What You Think…

Chief Learning Officer: How to reduce bias in talent review meetings

The Bridgespan Group: Talent Review and Development Process: A Step-by-Step Guide