Succession Planning
Future-Proof Your Business with Strategic Succession Planning
Proactive planning for future talent needs
Secure your company’s future by strategically planning for key roles with our Succession Planning solution. Identify and nurture top talent for your most critical positions using a comprehensive view of your organization’s collective skills and potential. Ensure your business continuity by preparing the right people for the right roles at the right time.
Continuity in leadership and operations
Ensure that critical roles within the organization are filled promptly by qualified individuals, minimizing disruptions in leadership and operations. This continuity is essential for maintaining productivity and achieving long-term business objectives.
Retention and development of talent
By identifying and preparing high-potential employees for future leadership roles, succession planning fosters a culture of growth and development. This not only helps in retaining top talent but also motivates employees by providing clear career paths and opportunities for advancement.
Risk mitigation and future-proofing
Helps organizations proactively identify potential gaps in leadership and critical roles, allowing for the development of strategies to mitigate these risks. This future-proofing ensures that the organization is prepared to face changes, such as retirements or unexpected departures, without compromising its strategic goals.
Data-Driven Succession Planning
TalentGuard’s Succession Planning solution offers features designed to ensure leadership continuity and strategic alignment.
Talent Pools
Create unlimited, customizable talent pools based on a role, person or vacancy and view employees by selected criteria.
Talent Plan
Efficiently track and monitor talent-related decisions and plans, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and strategies.
Risk Mitigation
Centralize the analysis of potential risks and gaps in your succession plan. Proactively address vulnerabilities and ensure a robust succession strategy.
Org Chart
View and navigate your entire organization in a single view with insights into important succession information.
Talent Finder
Search for talent based on detailed criteria such as skills, qualifications and keywords.
Talent Insights
Access dashboards and reports to make informed decisions about your succession strategies, workforce gaps and potential outcomes.
Explore the tools that will shape your future—discover our features in detail and unlock potential.
Talent Pools
Flexible Talent Pool Creation
- Create dynamic talent pools based on jobs, people, or custom criteria, allowing organizations to build a robust pipeline of potential leaders tailored to specific needs.
Unlimited Talent Pools
- Create and manage an unlimited number of talent pools to meet the diverse and evolving needs of your organization
Dynamic Tracking
- Keep your talent pools up-to-date with real-time data on candidate availability, skill levels, and performance metrics.
Talent Grid
- Create custom talent grids and view employees against various criteria, providing a clear view of talent distribution and potential.
Ideal Candidate Criteria
- Utilize ideal candidate criteria to automatically identify talent, ensuring that the best candidates are recognized and prepared for future leadership roles.
Side-bySide Comparison
- Compare candidates within a pool side-by-side to evaluate their qualifications, skills, and potential. This thorough comparison ensures you select the best fit for each role, enhancing the quality of your internal recruitment decisions.
Talent Plan
Manage talent planning sessions with confidence. Gain access to verified skills, competencies, performance, career aspirations, manager recommendations, and more.
Monitor Flight Risk
- Proactively manage succession risks and role vacancies with internal talent pools. Evaluate how well candidates match the role profile and alert management to flight risks.
Verified Skills and Competencies
- Accurate Matching: Utilize verified skills and competencies to match candidates with the most suitable roles, enhancing the precision and effectiveness of your internal recruitment efforts.
Performance-Based Selection
- Data-Driven Decisions: Integrate performance data to identify high achievers and ensure that your internal recruitment decisions are grounded in objective and quantifiable metrics.
Career Aspirations Alignment
- Employee Engagement: Take into account employees’ career aspirations to align internal recruitment opportunities with their personal and professional goals, fostering greater engagement and satisfaction.
Manager Recommendations
- Informed Insights: Leverage manager recommendations to gain valuable insights into candidates’ potential and readiness for new roles, adding a qualitative dimension to the recruitment process.
Holistic Candidate Profiles
- Comprehensive Overview: Create holistic candidate profiles that encompass skills, competencies, performance records, career aspirations, and manager feedback, providing a well-rounded view of each candidate.
Risk Mitigation Center
Centralize the analysis of potential risks and gaps in your succession plan. Proactively address vulnerabilities and ensure a robust succession strategy.
Bias Reduction
- Objective Selection: Reduce bias in your internal mobility decisions by utilizing objective, verified skill data. This data-driven approach promotes fairness and transparency in the candidate selection process.
Match Percentage
- Compare candidates based on match percentage to determine how closely their skills and qualifications align with the requirements of the role, ensuring precision in your selection.
Time-to-Readiness
- Evaluate candidates based on their time-to-readiness, which estimates how quickly they can be prepared to assume the new role, allowing for efficient and timely internal mobility.
Previous Roles
- Compare candidates’ previous roles to gain insight into their relevant experience and how it applies to the new position, providing a clear view of their career trajectory.
Preferences
- Take into account candidates’ preferences to ensure that the new role aligns with their career goals and interests, promoting job satisfaction and retention.
A clear view of organizational insights for future needs
Enable managers to see their teams’ bench strengths, tenure risks, and gaps in role succession so they can develop their people with an eye to the future.
Talent Finder
- Leverage advanced talent search features to quickly and efficiently locate the right talent within the organization, streamlining the succession planning process.
Empower Managers with Comprehensive Team Insights
- Enable managers to see their teams’ bench strengths, providing a clear understanding of the current capabilities and readiness of their team members.
Tenure Risk Identification
- Identify tenure risks within the team on the visual organization chart, allowing managers to anticipate potential departures and plan accordingly to mitigate the impact on the organization.
Succession Gaps Detection
- Strategic Succession Planning: Highlight gaps in role succession to ensure managers are aware of areas where successors are lacking or where additional development is needed.
Future-Oriented Development
- Focused Employee Development: Equip managers with the information needed to develop their people with an eye to the future, ensuring that the team is prepared for upcoming challenges and leadership transitions.
