Business Succession Planning FD (For Dummies Series) - Softcover

Dahlke, Arnie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118095146 ISBN 13: 9781118095140

Verlag: For Dummies, 2012

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The fast and easy way to get a handle on business succession planning

While the demand for effective managers continues to grow, the retirement of baby boomers is producing a sharp decline in the ranks of available management personnel. In addition, the executives of the future are expected to be more sophisticated in order to develop and lead new global and technological initiatives. For these reasons, strategic and often long-sighted succession planning for the eventual replacement of managers at all levels has reached a critical level.

Business Succession Planning For Dummies aids managers, human resource professionals, and upper management in cultivating and retaining their existing employees to ensure the availability and capability of persons to assume leadership roles in the future. In plain English, it prepares business owners to ask the difficult questions when it comes to developing a working succession plan for their businesses key positions. This book also offers information on how to retain and train personnel within an organization so that a more seamless transition can be made when a senior leader or other important personnel retires or leaves the organization.

• How to retain and train personnel for a more seamless transition
• Easy-to-follow guidance on developing a working succession plan
• Tips to create a plan to save time, money, knowledge, and clients by hiring from within

If you're a manager or human resources professional looking to develop a working succession plan, this hands-on, friendly guide has you covered.

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Arnie Dahlke is an independent organizational consultant, assisting both private (for-profit and nonprofit) and public organizations. His clients include Chevrolet, Saturn, Coca-Cola, Gelson's Markets, and Northgate Markets. He provides courses and seminars across the country for all levels of learners.

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The fast and easy way to get a handle on business succession planning

Need to cultivate and retain existing employees for leadership roles in the future? Easy. In plain English, this friendly guide shows managers and human resources staff how to develop a working succession plan and train personnel for a more seamless transition ? all while saving time, money, knowledge, and clients by hiring from within.

• Sounds like a plan ? grasp the importance of having a well-developed succession plan ? and the consequences of not having one ? and find the plan that's best for your business

• Full steam ahead ? build your succession-planning team, establish the specific goals of your plan, implement your plan, and handle obstacles along the way

• It's all in the details ? find out how to determine the competencies needed for key positions and develop the skills of potential successors within your organization

• Keep the ball rolling ? discover how to evaluate and maintain a succession plan that adapts to changes in your organization, the marketplace, the economy, and society at large

Open the book and find:

• The core components of a succession plan

• Why succession planning matters

• Advice on pinpointing the right plan for your organization

• How to plan for unexpected and predictable departures

• Ways to cope with people and process obstacles

• Tips for identifying, preparing, and training internal talent

• How to make yours a smooth transition

Learn to:

• Develop a smooth working succession plan

• Retain and train personnel for a seamless transition

• Save time, money, knowledge, and clients by hiring from within

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: For Dummies
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1118095146
• ISBN 13: 9781118095140
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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