Course Outline
Putting people first
- Putting people before numbers
- People’s wants from their organizations
- Organizations’ wants
- The war for talent
- Today’s top priorities in HR
- Disengagement and the downward performance spiral
People-based strategy
- HR activities: traditional focus versus career development focus
- The basics of career management and succession planning and management
- Careers today: the importance of development
- Definition of career development
- The career development process and links to HR
- Essential elements in an integrated career development system
- Definition of succession planning
- Main aims and reasons for establishing a succession planning and management system
Distinguishing succession planning from replacement planning
- Organizational readiness for change
- Promoting a development culture
- Characteristics of a development culture
- Career development as a change agent
- Roles and responsibilities in a development culture
- Role of human resources
- Role of line managers
- Role of top management
- Role of developers
- Identifying high potentials
Key positions
- High potentials and high professionals
- Assessing the individual potential
- Best practices to improve the management of high potentials
- Qualities of processes to spot, develop, and retain high potential
- Career development: tools and methodologies
- Competencies: the foundation for career development
- Competencies framework
Coaching & Mentoring
- Coaching: an essential managerial function
- Mentoring: a must-have system for career development
- Career counseling services
- Developing internal successors
- Making the business case for succession planning and management
- Starting the systematic succession planning and management program
- Refining the program
- Assessing present work requirements and individual job performance
- Assessing future work requirements and individual potential
- Closing the development gap: the Individual Development Plan (IDP)
- Designing the individual development plan
- The historical mentor and modern-day definitions
- Myth about mentoring
- Corporate mentoring
- Characteristics of mentoring
- The mentoring impact
Practical applications
- Informal vs. formal mentoring
- Why mentoring and whom to mentor?
- Benefits of mentoring
- Role and attributes of a mentor
- Mentoring relationships and life-cycle
- Mentoring meeting and agenda
- 10 commandments of mentoring
