Leadership Development and Succession Strategist

An Intensive 5-day Training Course

Leadership Development and
Succession Strategist

Success: The Right People in the Right Roles

UPCOMING SESSIONS

Classroom sessions
DateVenueFee
12-16 May 2025Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
11-15 Aug 2025Munich - Germany$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
06-10 Oct 2025London - UK$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
24-28 Nov 2025Barcelona - Spain$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
02-06 Feb 2026Amsterdam - The Netherlands$5,950RESERVE A SEAT

Training Course Overview

"We cultivate a culture of 'Growing Talent from Within' by providing comprehensive training and development opportunities for our staff, preparing them to tackle both current challenges and future readiness." - Jan Kincaid

In today's rapidly changing world, organizations are evolving just as swiftly. As companies face the need for leaders capable of navigating change and executing complex business strategies, there arises a critical necessity for leadership development. It is imperative that organizations establish a succession planning program designed to cultivate leaders more swiftly than traditional training methods. Such a program identifies key roles within the organization and nurtures potential future leaders to fill them, ensuring continuity of business success.

This Leadership Development and Succession Strategist training course emphasizes the importance of an integrated approach to leadership development and succession management. It advocates aligning these efforts with overall business strategies to foster leadership readiness among high-potential individuals throughout the organization. The course also explores best practices in succession planning and leadership development.

Training Course Objectives

By the end of this Anderson training course, delegates will be able to:

  • Understand the Succession Planning Process
  • Use the relevant tools in identifying the Key Positions and Potential Successors within their organization
  • Formulate a Strategic Talent Plan for the organization in line with the Business Strategy
  • Create and manage a Sustainable Talent Pipeline
  • Manage performance and provide constructive feedback for continuous improvement
  • Identify the most effective leadership development approaches

Designed for

This Anderson training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Senior managers responsible for executive succession plans
  • Middle managers identifying leadership potential amongst their staff
  • HR professionals developing succession plans
  • HR professionals in learning & development roles
  • Younger professionals with leadership aspirations

The Course Outline

Day One: What is Succession Planning?
  • Elements of business strategy
  • Our people are our most important asset
  • The employment context
  • The HR cycles
  • Recruitment and Retention
  • Who is Responsible for succession planning?
Day Two: People Plans and Business Plans
  • Identifying Critical Roles & Responsibilities
  • Current and future needs
  • Creating a talent pool
  • Conducting Talent Reviews
  • Assessing Skills, Knowledge & Attitudes
  • Developing Motivation and Engagement
Day Three: Talent Management
  • The ‘Ideal Leader’
  • Defining leadership potential
  • Conducting Talent Reviews
  • Developing talented personnel
  • Retaining talent
  • Success of talent programmes
Day Four: The Process of Nurturing Talent
  • Effective performance management
  • The importance of feedback in nurturing talent
  • Tailoring development to individual needs
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Is the organisation’s talent development approach working?
  • Measuring ROI
Day Five: Challenges of Succession Planning
  • Unplanned succession challenges
  • Realistic people planning
  • Setting and managing career expectations
  • Creating an ‘engaged’ workforce
  • Impact of organisational structures on people development opportunities
  • Course Review and Personal Planning

The Certificate

  • Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course.
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    The training fees include full access to the training venue, along with comprehensive training materials to enhance your learning experience. Additionally, participants will be provided with writing supplies and stationery. To ensure comfort and convenience, the fee also covers lunch and refreshing coffee breaks throughout the duration of the course.

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    Our training programs are hosted at luxurious five-star hotels in prestigious destinations across the globe. Some of our popular locations include Dubai, London, Kuala Lumpur, Amsterdam, New York, Paris, Vienna, and many other iconic cities.

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