Building Career Development Programs and Succession Planning

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  • 7 videos | 19m 15s
  • Includes Assessment
  • Earns a Badge
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Effectively managing your career or creating a career plan for your team requires an understanding of career management strategies within your organization. To manage talent effectively, your organization will need a total workforce optimized for overall success in achieving its goals. In this course, you'll learn about creating development programs for everyone from emerging employees through to experienced leaders by considering key concepts of career development, leadership development, and mentoring. You'll also learn how to maintain a qualified talent pipeline through effective succession planning. You'll explore succession planning activities, and learn how to create a succession program and analyze its success after implementation.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Recognize examples of career development programs
    Describe the theories of leadership
    Identify the characteristics of a successful mentoring program
  • Identify the activities that are characteristics of succession planning
    Match each stage of the succession planning process to the activities involved
    Match succession program assessment models to descriptions

IN THIS COURSE

  • 40s
    In this course, you'll learn how to develop employees and ensure you have a pipeline of employees ready for leadership. You'll explore career development programs, as well as leadership development theories, and consider what a successful mentoring program looks like. And you'll learn how to create and evaluate succession plans. FREE ACCESS
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    A strong career development program is the key to retaining employees and cultivating high potential employees' talents. Let's take a look at how career development typically progresses. FREE ACCESS
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    3.  Developing Leaders: Leadership Theory
    3m 17s
    Learn how to describe the theories of leadership. FREE ACCESS
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    4.  Mentoring and Leadership
    2m 57s
    In this video, you'll learn about the characteristics of a successful mentorship program. FREE ACCESS
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    5.  Understanding Succession Planning
    2m 50s
    Succession planning is a component of workforce planning – it's how you make sure you have a pipeline of people with the talents your company needs. If your succession plan is solid, you'll have a qualified replacement for a key player at the ready if they leave. FREE ACCESS
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    6.  Creating a Succession Planning Program
    3m 3s
    Succession planning is an ongoing process – but generally there are five stages. In this video, you'll learn about the key steps in creating a succession plan. FREE ACCESS
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    7.  Assessing Succession Programs
    3m 6s
    In this video, you'll review the key concepts covered in this course, including how to ensure that your organization maintains the right talent. FREE ACCESS

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