Is your organization PEOPLE READY?
That is, do you have the right people, in the right role, doing the right stuff? And are you prepared when things change (people leave …)
This is about making effective decisions now and being prepared to make them as you are faced with change and it's about having the right resources in place.
No matter what you call it, succession planning, talent planning, talent readiness, leadership development… to make these decisions and put the right resources in place, you need the same thing you need to make good decisions of any kind - accurate relevant information.
What do you need an accurate (optimal) understanding of?
People
Your key people's performance
Why they perform the way they do (this has a lot to do with potential)
What they "WANT to be"
What will be the forces for and the forces against them developing and maintaining the capabilities to…
Future People
Key Leadership Skills
The shift from complicated to complex decision making
The increasing pace of unpredictable change necessitating growth leadership mindset
Leading inclusively in an interconnected diverse skills-based labor market
Leading in an artificial intelligence assisted workforce
Key Technical Skills
Current Business/Markets
Internal
External Influences
Future Business/Markets
Internal
External Influences (Economic, Political, labor market, competitive, technological, sociological, demographic..)
What you need to Achieve accurate understanding?
Facts
Valid Data
Understanding of potential opportunities, threats and trends
Achieving accurate understanding
Facts and data by themselves do nothing
Its applying those facts with other data and facts and judgment that results in effective decisions.
Execute based on the Understanding
Maintain
Eliminate we did that but nothing really was achieved feeling
Planning for the "people" future
POTENTIAL
Who will do what in the future
Career planning
Leadership development
Retirement
