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Succession Planning – Preparing A Successor
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- To understand what succession planning is asnd the advantages of it
- To know how to prepare a successor
- To recognise that effective managers get great results, great managers do the same but also prepare someone to continue that success
- To know what leadership is and the differences between leadership and management
- To recognise how situational leadership can help prepare successors
- To understand that coaching, mentoring and delegation are important for preparing successors
- To know the benefits of delegation and how to delegate effectively
- To understand what coaching is and how to coach an employee
- To know what mentoring is and how to mentor an employee
- To recognise other ways of developing employees
- To understand about motivation and how to motivate others
Course Outline
- Succession Planning
- Definition of succession planning
- Why prepare a successor?
- Advantage of succession planning
- Differences between an effective leader and a great leader
- Developing a succession planning strategy
- How to implement a succession planning strategy
- How managers can develop successors
- Advantages / disadvantages of telling an employee they are a potential
- Great leaders prepare successors
- Leadership – definition of it and what it means
- Differences between leadership & management
- The origins of the words ‘lead’ & ‘manage’
- Differences between leadership and management
- All managers have to both lead and manage
- Characteristics / qualities of effective leaders
- The management grid – five management styles (Mouton and Blake)
- Preparing a successor through effective delegation
- Why managers do not delegate more
- Benefits of delegation
- The process of delegation
- Five golden rules for better delegation
- Situational leadership – leading an employee to complete a task
- Knowing when to direct, coach, support or delegate to them
- Improving motivational skills
- What is motivation and how people are motivated by different things
- Motivational theories – Maslow and Herzberg
- Exercise – what motivates employees?
- Tips and guidelines on how to motivate employees
- Different ways to develop successors and other employees
- Advantages of developing employees
- Ways to develop successors/employees
- The important of coaching and mentoring for preparing successors
- The differences between coaching and mentoring
- How to coach successors/employees:
- Definition of coaching
- Two manager-coach styles
- Questions a coach can ask
- The grow coaching model
- Coaching role-plays
- Mentoring successors – the mentor’s role
- The benefits of mentoring
- Guidelines for mentoring a successor, including how to mentor passively
- Characteristics of an effective mentor
- Summary – steps for implementing succession planning
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- To understand what succession planning is asnd the advantages of it
- To know how to prepare a successor
- To recognise that effective managers get great results, great managers do the same but also prepare someone to continue that success
- To know what leadership is and the differences between leadership and management
- To recognise how situational leadership can help prepare successors
- To understand that coaching, mentoring and delegation are important for preparing successors
- To know the benefits of delegation and how to delegate effectively
- To understand what coaching is and how to coach an employee
- To know what mentoring is and how to mentor an employee
- To recognise other ways of developing employees
- To understand about motivation and how to motivate others
Course Outline
- Succession Planning
- Definition of succession planning
- Why prepare a successor?
- Advantage of succession planning
- Differences between an effective leader and a great leader
- Developing a succession planning strategy
- How to implement a succession planning strategy
- How managers can develop successors
- Advantages / disadvantages of telling an employee they are a potential
- Great leaders prepare successors
- Leadership – definition of it and what it means
- Differences between leadership & management
- The origins of the words ‘lead’ & ‘manage’
- Differences between leadership and management
- All managers have to both lead and manage
- Characteristics / qualities of effective leaders
- The management grid – five management styles (Mouton and Blake)
- Preparing a successor through effective delegation
- Why managers do not delegate more
- Benefits of delegation
- The process of delegation
- Five golden rules for better delegation
- Situational leadership – leading an employee to complete a task
- Knowing when to direct, coach, support or delegate to them
- Improving motivational skills
- What is motivation and how people are motivated by different things
- Motivational theories – Maslow and Herzberg
- Exercise – what motivates employees?
- Tips and guidelines on how to motivate employees
- Different ways to develop successors and other employees
- Advantages of developing employees
- Ways to develop successors/employees
- The important of coaching and mentoring for preparing successors
- The differences between coaching and mentoring
- How to coach successors/employees:
- Definition of coaching
- Two manager-coach styles
- Questions a coach can ask
- The grow coaching model
- Coaching role-plays
- Mentoring successors – the mentor’s role
- The benefits of mentoring
- Guidelines for mentoring a successor, including how to mentor passively
- Characteristics of an effective mentor
- Summary – steps for implementing succession planning