Succession planning: a developmental approach

Abstract

Purpose

Aims to focus on the issue of succession planning.

Design/methodology/approach

Provides some practical pointers that organisations should do to improve the efficacy of their succession planning processes.

Findings

These include making sponsorship a more open and managed process; stop putting people into boxes; adopt a more systemic view of performance; and continually re‐examine the qualities and experience required for significant roles.

Originality/value

Outlines how the integration of succession planning with both coaching and mentoring is an inevitable outcome of the modern organisation's need to manage its talent pool.

Citation

Clutterbuck, D. (2005), "Succession planning: a developmental approach", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 19 No. 5, pp. 11-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/14777280510616230