Succession Planning

With our succession planning services, Career Directions ensures you get the right people in the right jobs at the right time for the sake of your organization’s future. To optimize the success of your organization’s strategic plan, you need smart succession planning and the effective development of both executive and mid-level talent. Career Directions offers a portfolio of services to help you identify and develop the leadership that will assure your firm’s future.

Competency-Based Assessment

• Working from your organization’s strategic plan, Career Directions identifies the competencies that are required to succeed in specific executive positions. Career Directions also clarifies the competencies that all leaders in your organization need in order to support a culture of excellence and results.
• Once the competency modeling is complete, Career Directions can assess the current level of attainment in critical competency areas, both among individual leaders and within various executive and management teams.

Selection for Results

• Using the competency models, Career Directions will help you decide if each executive role is best filled by the incumbent, by another internal candidate who can be developed for the job, or by an individual who brings essential qualifications and experience from another environment.
• For succession planning that is more substantive than intuition alone, Career Directions combines advanced testing procedures with Behavioral Event Interviewing to predict how candidates will behave in future positions.

Executive Coaching

• Career Directions’ certified executive coaching services help your senior leaders as well as high potential future leaders identify their opportunities for growth and take responsibility to achieve that growth.
• Career Directions offers a coaching program that maximizes successful change in the two to three critical areas an executive (or their supervisor or sponsor) identifies as crucial to future leadership success.

Developing the Developers

• Career Directions offers seminars for senior managers to guide them in maximizing the productivity and development of their subordinates as part of the succession plan implementation.
• Powerful Conversations^TM, these seminars consist of widely spaced sessions between which participants practice new skills under the guidance of a coach.
• Career Directions also designs and leads mentoring programs, often delivered to groups of mentor leaders, that help mentors more quickly develop budding talent in the organization.