Succession Planning and Cross Training

Succession Planning and Cross Training

Most organizations do not have a succession plan or a cross-training program in effect right now. Moreover, they are missing out on all the many benefits that can come with cross-training employees to succeed within their organization. When you combine your cross-training initiatives with your organization’s succession plan, your employees will simultaneously be acquiring new skills that help them in their current roles while helping them do more challenging work with your organization long term. For example, you can cross-train employees in various skills so that they can have the skills they need to be supervisors or managers at your organization or fill in when there is a disruptive event.

Succession planning is a talent management process that builds a pool of trained workers who are ready to fill key roles when leaders and other key employees step down. Organizations with succession planning programs in place foster a talent-oriented culture by recruiting skilled workers and top talent.

Succession planning aims to attract the best talent, retain those individuals, and develop them through well-targeted development efforts. Succession planning helps build the bench strength of an organization to ensure the long-term health, growth and stability. Succession Planning is important because at the heart of the talent management process is identifying key roles and mapping out ways to ensure the organization has the right people with the right skills, capabilities, and experiences, in the right place at the right time. Succession Planning is an ongoing process that identifies necessary competencies, and then works to assess, develop, and retain a talent pool of employees, in order to ensure continuity for all critical positions.

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