Fill Open Position

A lot of companies struggle with identifying critical positions. They choose to flag these critical roles so succession plans can be created to fill the slots should they become vacant positions. Sometimes, it is a political issue within a company as to which positions are critical. An individual of great value or of sensitive ego may feel threatened if their position is not defined as critical.  read more »

I know I’ve been writing a lot about Succession Planning lately, but this business discipline is in need of serious management and strategic attention and  re-creation. I found this article, Opening Up Succession Plans, about Frontier Communications’  succession planning particularly interesting.

I’ll let you read it and then I’ll ask a question…”Are you a CEO  afraid to build out your succession plan because it’s planning your own funeral?” I have at least two pieces of advice for you. read more »

Business decisions, small and large, have far-reaching impact on businesses and the people working within them. Thus, executives and managers are seeking more fact-based decision tools. Yet, in this age of data overload, large numbers of facts can  paralyze the decision makers. How can they wade through the data to make it meaningful? Here comes the responsibility of the technology departments. read more »

It is amazing to me how many businesses McKinsey & Company find that have not built succession plans, even for their CEO. That’s nearly half in the study. Considering that 100% of us die at some point in time, and 100% of us eventually leave our jobs in one way or another, it’s unbelievable anyone would consider not building a succession plan immediately for their CEO and key employees throughout the organization. What are they scared of that could possibly be worse than a gap in their leadership? read more »

The org charts are connected to the succession plan…
The succession plan is connected to the reorg…
The reorg is connected to the data integrity…
And so on.

Workforce planning is a very comprehensive term. Sometimes it gets tangled in definitions regarding only the scheduling of employees. Other times it’s used to define the budget needed for future staff. It is so much more than that. read more »