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MAY 28, 2014

This post recently appeared in SmartBlog on Leadership : I’ve managed formal succession planning systems for a number of large companies and consulted with quite a few smaller companies. I network with others that do the same, and keep up with the latest succession planning current practices, trends, and challenges.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Creating an Individual Development Plan (IDP) is a great way to capture those actions and increases your chances of keeping your commitments to yourself. Senior leaders often hire executive coaches to help them create their development plan. What’s your action plan? How will you share your plan with your manager?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

I picked this question because I just attended an event in Boston called “Secrets of Succession”, a moderated panel discussion with a CHRO, a succession planning consultant and executive coach, and a CEO and Board member. To them, succession planning and development was all about the discussion, decisions, and actions taken.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

It’s been said that “a vision without a plan is just a dream. A plan without a vision is just drudgery. But a vision with a plan can change the world.” Read my latest post over at About.com to learn the 7 basic elements of a strategic plan : vision, mission, SWOT analysis, core values, goals, objectives, and action plans.

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JULY 8, 2013

I’ve written about how to write a great individual development plan (IDP) - it’s my all-time most popular post, with over 300,000 hits. Here''s a checklist I''ve used to evaluate the quality of a leader''s individual development plan. Use it to evaluate your own plan or to coach others. Robustness: 1. Variety: 6. Clarity: 15.

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APRIL 30, 2013

If you’re in a senior leadership role in a large organization, there’s a good chance there is a succession plan for your position in case you get promoted, win the lottery, get hit by a bus, leave to take a position at another company, or need to be replaced for poor performance. Share your succession plan with your boss.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

The Great Leadership Development and Succession Planning Kit is a “best of” collection of blog posts from the award winning blog Great Leadership , written by Dan McCarthy, an experienced leadership development practitioner and author. I love this collection of some of Dan's best posts on Leadership Development and Succession Planning!

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Succession planning is the systematic assessment and identification of individuals to fill key leadership positions that may or will open up sometime in the future. I’ve listened to speakers and authors say that it’s imperative that every organization do succession planning. You don’t plan on doing anything. But should they?

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APRIL 16, 2015

Guest post from Patrick Thean : In business, a leader’s ability to strategically plan for the company’s future is of the highest importance. Your company will not be successful if you don’t have the strategies and execution plans in place to reach your objectives. Great plans stem from great planning sessions.

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MAY 26, 2015

An individual development plan (IDP) is a great way to turn good intentions into specific, written plans and a two-way commitment between you and your manager! Most of us have good intentions when it comes to improving ourselves, but good intentions often fall by the wayside.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

In other words, having a successor/succession plan. In none of the cases I mentioned, was there a successor or a succession plan. Failure to have a CEO succession plan is nothing short of dereliction of duty. Then look to the CEO, some of whom, fearing competition, don’t even want to deal with the notion of a succession plan.

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MAY 27, 2015

An individual development plan (IDP) is a great way to turn good intentions into specific, written plans and a two-way commitment between you and your employee! Most managers have good intentions when it comes to developing our employees, but good intentions often fall by the wayside.

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JANUARY 21, 2015

Executive Coach Beth Armknecht Miller says it is essential for companies to make succession planning a priority at all levels of management. Read Beth’s guest post over at About.com Management and Leadership: Succession Planning Best Practices for all Levels of Management to find out why and how.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

There’s a “Diversity” strategy driven from one office, and a succession planning and development strategy driven by another. At the risk of oversimplifying, here’s a 9 step process to improve gender balance through succession planning and development: 1. Both are equally important and go hand in hand. Viability of candidates.

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JANUARY 29, 2015

Of course, they can also be like a sentence in purgatory if not planned and run well. There is plenty of advice on how to run effective meetings, but not enough on planning. A well planned meeting can prevent a lot of the problems associated with bad meetings. Ask: “What is the overall purpose of the meeting?”

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APRIL 30, 2012

now THAT is the question when it comes to succession planning and high potential programs. Status is re-evaluated every year, and you can drop off the list due to changes in organizational plans and talent needs, changes in the high potential criteria, and competition for entry into the pool. "To tell or not to tell"?,

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Camp two fails because their team feels no connection to their plan and while they may go through the motions of following their leader’s plan they aren’t fully bought in.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

An individual development plan (IDP) is a tool that helps facilitate employee development. I’ve written about the importance of written individual development plans (IDPs) for leadership development, and how to develop your leadership skills , but not how to actually write one. How to Write a Great Individual Development Plan (IDP) 1.

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APRIL 22, 2008

Here's a checklist I've used to evaluate the quality of a leader's individual development plan. Use to evaluate your own plan or to coach others. To what extent is there connectivity between the career path, leadership assessment, development needs and planned development actions? Robustness 1. Is the IDP complete? Clarity 15.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

I’ve always been a strong proponent of the importance of having a written individual development plan (IDP) for leadership development. In that year, the students were asked, "Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?" I make sure my employees have one.

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MARCH 26, 2020

Mathas’ insights could be expanded to include many of the seven principles listed by Leave No Trace: Plan Ahead and Prepare: Business leaders who know the environment in which they are leading can greatly minimize any negative impact, whether on the people they lead or the communities/environments in which they operate.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Once they agree that their behavior isn’t benefitting them or others around them, then it’s time for them to put a plan together to change. When do you plan on resolving the situation? Then jointly create a development plan with a specific timeline. I recommend a 30-60-90 day plan.

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

I''ve been writing a series of posts over at About.com Management and Leadership covering use of the 9 box performance and potential matrix for succession planning and leadership development. 9 box grid 9 box model individual development plans performance and potential matrix succession planning'

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

1) Focus on Learning and Listening Prior to starting a new role, read as much as you can, for as far back as you can about the business, strategy, plans, performance, people, opportunities, and challenges. Meet with your predecessor and other stakeholders to ask questions that seek to understand and not judge.

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MARCH 22, 2018

My partners and I decided that the strategic planning process was the best experiential way that emerging leaders could shape the future of the organization. In one of the first conversations about our new strategic planning process I had with my partners, we identified Macy as one of those emerging leaders. This was not easy for me.

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MAY 21, 2020

Sometimes this is a control issue; sometimes just poor planning. Use positive approaches such as appreciative inquiry, which identifies what works when parts of initiatives fail, and which uses brainstorming and strategic planning to arrive at an ideal solution. Ask for feedforward, not just feedback.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

Whether it’s a career plan or an organizational strategy, we tend to feel far more comfortable developing positive, purpose- or mission-driven strategy. It’s our go-to approach to strategy development because it helps us to break down long-term growth planning into practical, incremental activity. Backcasting is positive. It’s logical.

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

Here''s part one and two: 8 Reasons to Use the 9 Box Matrix for Succession Planning and Development How to Use the 9 Box Matrix for Succession Planning and Development. 9 box nine box grid performance and potential matrix succession planning'

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AUGUST 29, 2019

When you read your plan to reach your goals, you are reminded of what to do (force of will). From here, you can take the feedback you get and make new actionable changes to your plan. Holding Focus What good is a framework or plan if it is buried in a folder or desk drawer? Out of sight—out of mind.

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MAY 28, 2019

The participants were divided into small groups and each team was asked to spend a few hours strategizing and developing a plan that would lead to the best and fastest way to find items and “collect” associated winnings. Ditch the plan. They were going to stay together as a group and use their collective brain power to solve the clues.

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APRIL 16, 2014

For these frequent, planned discussions to be effective, leaders need to include four critical components to the conversation. The Formal Development Plan 2. Plan progress 3. The Formal Development Plan Before the conversation about an employee’s development begins there needs to be a plan.

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JULY 22, 2013

A proven best practice to improve as a leader is to create and follow-through on an Individual Development Plan (IDP). Studies on goal attainment prove over that over that people with written, specific plans are more likely to achieve their goals. So what would a five-year leadership Individual Development Plan look like?

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

It’s also a good time to set leadership development goals, either as part of a formal development planning process, or just because it’s a proven way to continuously improve as a leader. 2015 resolutions development goals individual development plans leadership development'

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JULY 2, 2020

Strategy, your plan to compete, is all about making the right bets to achieve your goals. As a leader, how do you decide what bet to place, what plan to make, and what strategy to pursue? Some people try to argue that execution is not strategic, but if strategy is your plan to compete, then execution must be central to strategy.

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JUNE 11, 2014

city slickers development planning individual development plans just one thing' Read my latest article at About.com Management & Leadership to find out how to discover your "one thing" to improve as a leader.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Agenda planning. A collaborative meeting starts with agenda planning. Good agenda planning (with desired outcomes) should also help determine who should be invited to the meeting. Here are 10 essential skills required to facilitate a meeting, all of which can be learned and improved with practice: 1.

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APRIL 16, 2013

When it came to individual development planning and coaching, I never used to be a fan of adding a lot of muckety-muck to the process. Given the nature of succession planning cycles, most of them ended up scrambling to create individual development plans (IDPs) at the last minute all at the same time, and it was my job to help them.

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