Succession Management (SM) Certification
Create Your Blueprint for Succession Management and Future-Proof Your Organization
Unplanned vacancies in critical roles pose a significant threat to organizations. Without a clear succession plan, it’s impossible to be prepared for what lies ahead. To future-proof themselves, organizations need to cultivate a pipeline of talent ready to take on critical, strategic roles when the time comes. They need a robust succession management plan.
Succession management is more than just filling gaps—it's about preparing people to be in the right places and giving them the skills to succeed. By aligning each step of your succession management process to your organization’s strategy, you can identify, assess, and develop the talent needed for future success and foster a culture where everyone can become the best version of themselves.
This comprehensive two-day program takes the complicated process of succession management and distills it down to the key steps. You’ll work through a single case study with our five-step model, practicing each step along the way as you develop a holistic succession plan designed to ensure ongoing talent readiness and cultivate a talent pipeline for the future. You’ll be equipped with the skills and knowledge to strategically align your succession management process with your organization’s long-term goals and leave with best practices, tools, and an action plan to implement right away.
What You'll Learn
Align Strategically
Understand the importance of linking succession management to your organization’s strategic goals while engaging collaboratively with leadership and key stakeholders
Identify Strategic Roles
Determine what roles, skills, and competencies are necessary to ensure future success
Assess the Talent
Examine your workforce for potential successor candidates
Provide Learning and Development
Implement a holistic talent development plan and provide structured and targeted opportunities for learning and development for all employees
Monitor and Adjust
Ensure your succession management plan aligns with evolving organizational needs and goals by regularly evaluating and adjusting the process and monitoring potential successors
What to Expect
- Select training dates and times that fit your schedule
- Finish your HCI program with a guidebook, access to additional videos and research, and a set of skills that you can use on the job immediately
- Access log-in information, certification materials (participant guide and toolkit), and the exam in your MyHCI profile
- Chat and interact with faculty and peers via Zoom
- Earn your HCI certification by attending all the sessions, completing all classwork, and passing the multiple-choice exam with a score of 80% or higher
- Renew your HCI certification every three years by obtaining 60 credits
- Attend this certification program and earn HCI, HRCI, SHRM, and ATD recertification credits
Build the in-demand strategic capabilities you need to advance your HR career and lead the future of HR in only 18 months. You'll take three core programs and two strategic accelerators as well as complete mentoring and an advised portfolio project. Graduates of this program demonstrate a breadth of HR knowledge and capabilities to bring wherever they go.
