Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Succession Planning

Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Succession Planning

Author: Linkage Inc.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-07-16

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0787985791

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Plan For Your Organization's Success Linkage's Best Practices for Succession Planning provides the ultimate guide for planning, developing, implementing, and sustaining succession planning in any organization. This must-have book provides step-by-step instructions, practical advice, templates, and tools from some of the world's best companies and Linkage, a global organization development company that specializes in leadership development. Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices for Succession Planning is the comprehensive resource that includes information needed to * Ensure that succession management is owned by business leaders rather than just HR * Assess potential for future roles, not just track record of performance * Manage succession data on individuals and talent pools * Balance talent development and acquisition in achieving future objectives * Develop the processes, tools, and organizational capabilities necessary to effectively implement and sustain the system * Integrate succession planning systems with other businesses and HR systems in the organization to achieve efficiency, consistency, and impact


Linkage Inc's Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook

Linkage Inc's Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook

Author: Linkage Inc.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-03-23

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0470451424

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Leadership development is a planned effort that enhances the learner's capacity to lead people. Building on the success of the first edition, Linkage conducted a study of over 300 top organizations and their needs in organizational change and leadership development that identifies approaches to leadership development that have proven to be successful. The work offers practical "how-to" instructions developing leaders and engaging in leadership development. It provides current in-depth models, assessments, tools, and other instruments that can be used for immediate application within a variety of organizations.


Evaluation of Succession Planning to Improve Court Employees' Career Development Opportunities: An Evolutionary Concept Whose Time Is Now!

Evaluation of Succession Planning to Improve Court Employees' Career Development Opportunities: An Evolutionary Concept Whose Time Is Now!

Author: Keith Edward Robinson

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2013-12-05

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1434929612

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Succession planning is a process designed to ensure that individuals are recruited and developed to fill key roles in organizations. In this highly informative and easy-to-read dissertation, Dr. Keith E. Robinson provides extensive background on what defines effective succession planning, its importance in today’s workforce, and the immediacy with which it needs to be integrated into the court systems. Using mixed methods research, Dr. Robinson reveals the perceptions and attitudes of court employees and their desire for a structured, systematic, and well-defined succession plan and provides insights on how to implement such practices strategically and effectively. Evaluation of Succession Planning to Improve Court Employees’ Career Development Opportunities is an excellent resource for human resource departments, executives, managers, or anyone looking to develop their understanding of succession planning and career and leadership development.


Leadership

Leadership

Author: Larry F. Ross Sr.

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published:

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1477131361

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Leadership plays a major role in everything that we do in life. Though effective leadership is a personal role that requires individual thinking and attainment, one must make sure that it is focused on the overall success of the organization. However, there are other roles that are directly tied up in what we call leadership and some of the roles include self-leading, managing change, empowering people, leading by example, delegating authority, facilitating cooperation, and building and leading a team.Leadership is not just power but for the most part, it is about relationships. Leadership is also about one s power to reward and punish in a nondiscriminatory manner. To have a certain style or persona that ensures people will support your implementation of goals for the success of the organization. However, at the end of the day, you will never get there without fi rst leading oneself to do the right thing in all of your endeavors. One learns leadership by being a leader.This cannot happen unless you have the proper skills (visionary, trustworthy, inspirational, etc.) because leaders must balance many roles to be successful. However, sometimes you need help to guide and remind you how to take a course of action. This book serves as a sounding board to help guide you with its recording of best practices. Climb the ladder of leadership; hired, trainee, mentor, team lead, supervisor, manager, and executive and let people know that you can successfully lead with every step you take.


Leadership

Leadership

Author: Dr Larry F Ross, Sr

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-07

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1477131345

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Leadership plays a major role in everything that we do in life. Though effective leadership is a personal role that requires individual thinking and attainment, one must make sure that it is focused on the overall success of the organization. However, there are other roles that are directly tied up in what we call leadership and some of the roles include self-leading, managing change, empowering people, leading by example, delegating authority, facilitating cooperation, and building and leading a team.Leadership is not just power but for the most part, it is about relationships. Leadership is also about one's power to reward and punish in a nondiscriminatory manner. To have a certain style or persona that ensures people will support your implementation of goals for the success of the organization. However, at the end of the day, you will never get there without fi rst leading oneself to do the right thing in all of your endeavors. One learns leadership by being a leader.This cannot happen unless you have the proper skills (visionary, trustworthy, inspirational, etc.) because leaders must balance many roles to be successful. However, sometimes you need help to guide and remind you how to take a course of action. This book serves as a sounding board to help guide you with its recording of best practices. Climb the ladder of leadership; hired, trainee, mentor, team lead, supervisor, manager, and executive and let people know that you can successfully lead with every step you take.


The Public Administration Workbook

The Public Administration Workbook

Author: Dennis L. Dresang

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-08-05

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1134816154

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Public administration is a craft that demands real-world application of concepts and theories often learned in a classroom. Yet many students find it difficult to make the leap from theory to practice completely unaided. The Public Administration Workbook, 8e is specifically designed with the theoretically-grounded, practice-minded student in mind. It reviews scholarship in political science, law, industrial psychology, and the sociology of organizations and then allows students to see how these intellectual fields inform the analytical and managerial tasks that comprise public administration. Where standard public administration textbooks examine the nature of public agencies and explain how bureaucracies relate to other institutions, this workbook promotes a more effective way of learning—by doing—and more directly prepares those who will pursue careers in public agencies. Each chapter begins with a discussion of relevant concepts and scholarship before moving into a hands-on exercise analyzing core analytical and management challenges. This edition includes an all-new exercise on contract negotiation, many international examples interwoven throughout the book, and a fully updated HRM section to reflect alternative ranking and compensation systems. Each chapter is further supported by a detailed Instructor’s Manual written by the author to guide instructors on solutions, explanations, and ideas for using or modifying the exercises to fit a variety of course needs, as well as downloadable datasets and exercises, providing students with a unique opportunity to apply and test classroom concepts outside of the job.


Succession Planning and Management: A Guide to Organizational Systems and Practices

Succession Planning and Management: A Guide to Organizational Systems and Practices

Author: David Berke

Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership

Published: 2005-06-24

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1604917415

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The purpose of succession-related practices is to ensure that there are ready replacements for key positions in an organization so that turnover will not negatively affect the organization's performance. CCL first published an annotated bibliography on succession planning in 1995. That bibliography focused primarily on the link between succession and management development. This bibliography has a broader scope; it is an update and expansion, commensurate with the maturation of this area of practice. In addition to linkages between succession and development, we also consider representative literature on CEO succession, high potentials, and succession systems and architecture. It is hoped that those who use this bibliography will find resources that help them in conceptualizing, planning, and implementing effective succession systems in their organizations.


Effective Succession Planning

Effective Succession Planning

Author: William Rothwell

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 2010-04-21

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 0814414176

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William Rothwell honored with the ASTD Distinguished Contribution Award in Workplace Learning and Performance. The definitive guide to a timely and timeless topic-- now fully revised and updated. As baby boomers continue to retire en masse from executive suites, managerial offices, and specialized or technical jobs, the question is—who will take their places? This loss of valuable institutional memory has made it apparent that no organization can afford to be without a strong succession program. Now in its fourth edition, Effective Succession Planning provides the tools organizations need to establish, revitalize, or revise their own succession planning and management (SP&M) programs. The book has been fully updated to address challenges brought on by sea changes such as globalization, recession, technology, and the aftereffects of the terror attacks. It features new sections on identifying and assessing competencies and future needs; management vs. technical succession planning; and ethics and conduct; and new chapters on integrating recruitment and retention strategies with succession planning programs. This edition incorporates the results of two extensive new surveys, and includes a Quick Start guide to help begin immediate implementation as well as a CD-ROM packed with assessments, checklists, customizable guides, and other practical tools.


Linkage Inc's Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook

Linkage Inc's Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook

Author: Linkage Inc.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-04-06

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0470195673

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Leadership development is a planned effort that enhances the learner's capacity to lead people. Building on the success of the first edition, Linkage conducted a study of over 300 top organizations and their needs in organizational change and leadership development that identifies approaches to leadership development that have proven to be successful. The work offers practical "how-to" instructions developing leaders and engaging in leadership development. It provides current in-depth models, assessments, tools, and other instruments that can be used for immediate application within a variety of organizations.


Effective Succession Planning

Effective Succession Planning

Author: William J. Rothwell

Publisher: Amacom Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780814408421

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The most admired book on systematic succession planning...now updated and expanded.