Strategic Succession Planning August 31, 2010

3 CPE Credits

Leadership bench strength powerfully correlates with long-term profitability and organizational success, yet succession planning remains widely underutilized and misunderstood. Join us for current research and best practices on how to launch succession planning for the first time or to give a fresh boost to your existing process.

This highly interactive workshop provides conceptual & research underpinnings for succession planning and presents an opportunity to work on your own organization's succession challenges. Discover a method for defining the scope of succession planning appropriate to your current organizational needs and take away a step by step model for implementation of phased succession planning.

You'll leave able to:

* Outline key principles of succession planning
* Communicate the business case for succession planning to your executive team
* Use succession planning to create a company-wide talent development culture
* Using surveys and assessments to aid succession planning

Speaker
Steve N. Knight, Executive Vice President, Integral Talent Systems, Inc.
Steve has 17 years of sales and consulting experience in the field of strategic organizational change. Prior to joining ITS, Steve served as a Vice President at Achieve Global, leading the western region's sales and consulting organization. During his eight-year tenure there, Steve also held Sales Manager and Senior Account Executive positions. Before joining Achieve Global, he was a Senior Consultant at Psychological Associates, Inc., and a manufacturing Operations Manager at AT&T. Steve's areas of expertise include employee retention strategies, process improvement, management development, and sales training.

Desired Level of Experience: Some familiarity with succession planning helpful

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