The Art of Succession Planning
Evolve your strategy to an organization of accountable leaders.
Succession planning isn't just about the next CEO. In addition to providing a seamless transition of workflow, it's a way to institute a CEO culture – and create a place where every employee is motivated to increase their skill set and improve the performance of the organization – every day.
The result? An empowered, silo-free, and accountable organization that runs lean and develops leaders from within. Using real-life examples, this step-by-step guide will help you create a CEO culture and a concise, institution-wide succession plan.
Highlights include:
- Expecting managers at every level to improve their employees and processes, and develop leaders through continual coaching.
- How to introduce the CEO culture to the greater organization.
- How to identify, delayer, and eliminate outdated roles so every position is 100% relevant now – and into the future.
- From communication to catastrophic situations – how to bring your board and CEO together to create and negotiate a statement of expectations and CEO skill set.
- Handling multiple internal candidates.
- Aligning employee expectations and moving decision-making to the front lines.
