Product Description: This timely guide explains how businesses can effectively integrate and coordinate career and succession planning programs to meet the personnel demands of the future.• Examines career development in a much broader manner than is traditionally the case by focusing on both the personal and professional development planning needs of employees• Demonstrates how employees who are given tools and organizational guidance necessary to plan their development will usually be more successful in meeting their career aspirations• Expands on the organization's role in establishing career development programs to answer the question of who is responsible―the organization, the employee, or both• Includes cutting-edge research by leading consulting firms such as BlessingWhite, Manpower Group, and DDI • Offers content that will be equally valuable to students, practitioners, and academician...read more

Product Description: The fast and easy way to get a handle on business succession planning While the demand for effective managers continues to grow, the retirement of baby boomers is producing a sharp decline in the ranks of available management personnel...read more

Product Description: A leader's greatest challenge can be knowing when it's time to step aside. A great deal has been written for corporate boards on the issue of succession planning. But most executives have few resources to help guide them through the process...read more

Learn how top companies solve the problem of leadership succession from corporate America's leading consultant. A serious crisis looms in American management today. More and more CEOs are failing; there remains an acute shortage of capable replacements. The true dilemma in leadership is the stagnant state of corporate leadership development. Because companies fail to hone their unit managers' leadership abilities, they are never able to fill their succession pipelines. With unit managers stagnating, companies have difficulty executing at every level, compounding the crisis. In I>Leaders at All Levels, bestselling author Ram Charan shows how top companies approach leadership development as a core competency, recognizing that an adaptable leadership pool is a competitive advantage, and focusing their attention on bringing out the best in the leaders they have. Charan reveals exactly what's wrong with corporate leadership development and tells how to make it right. He explains the concept of a leadership "gene pool" and shows how companies can discover just what "DNA" they need to succeed. He also details how to uncover the hidden leaders in a company, when and where to bring in fresh talent, how to coach, measure, and reward leadership, and much more. For CEOs, directors, and anyone involved in leadership development, Leaders at All Levels is an eye-opening guide on how to get succession right.

Product Description: Many organizations are scrambling to prepare for an expected wave of retirements. Almost twice as many job openings are occurring from people retiring as from economic expansion―a direct function of a steadily aging workforce. The implications for businesses, government agencies, nonprofits, and educational institutions are enormous, as organizational leaders maneuver to fill the talent pipeline...read more

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Product Description: Succession planning saves the cost and time of external personnel searches. It improves employee morale, lessens the effects of reengineering and downsizing, but most important, it creates a diverse talent pool within your organization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Eastman, Lorrina J.