If succession planning works, how do the wrong people so often get to the top? Succession planning was once the key to identifying potential leaders to fill important positions. However, in today's rapidly evolving business world traditional succession planning is no longer a viable strategy with research showing that 70% of succession plans fail within two years, simply from lack of management support.
In a climate of growing skills shortages and lack of confidence in leadership potential, David Clutterbuck offers a new a process of dialogue between an organization and its employees. The Talent Wave presents a dynamic, flexible approach to succession planning and talent management. Clutterbuck first demolishes most of accepted practice in these areas, and then presents practical solutions which align employee ambitions and business priorities to ensure that organizations have the right leadership in place for ongoing success.
The Talent Wave : Why Succession Planning Fails and What to Do About It
Description
Table of Contents
Chapter - 00: Introduction;
Chapter - 01: What's wrong with succession planning?;
Chapter - 02: A systemic perspective on succession and talent;
Chapter - 03: What do we mean by leadership?;
Chapter - 04: The critical challenges: what is talent?;
Chapter - 05: Aligning careers and business needs;
Chapter - 06: The critical challenges: the maturity question;
Chapter - 07: Pools, pipelines or waves?;
Chapter - 08: Critical conversations;
Chapter - 09: Conversation 1: the inner dialogue;
Chapter - 10: Conversation 2: stakeholder dialogue;
Chapter - 11: Conversation 3: between the organization and employees;
Chapter - 12: Conversation 4: between social networks;
Chapter - 13: Succession planning for a dynamic world
Author Description
David Clutterbuck is a co-founder and lifetime ambassador of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and founder of Clutterbuck Associates. Visiting professor at two UK Universities, he is repeatedly among the top 25 HR thinkers in HR Magazine's annual survey, and is the author or co-author of over 50 books, including Mentoring in Action, published by Kogan Page.