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Welcome to the New Year, a time traditionally set
aside for resolutions and planning for the year ahead-
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both personally and in your business. In your
planning for the new year though, have you
considered what it costs your organization when
managers and executives leave?
Recruiting new leaders is an expensive process--
but that's a very small part of the cost. The
disruption, lowered productivity, and diminished focus
of your organization can impact your bottom line
more than you might think. Worse yet is the
prospect that there is no guarantee of a successful
transition when you do find what you hope are
talented replacements.
This month we'd like to focus on succession planning
and leadership development. Ignoring the possibility
of losing talented leaders that drive your business
can all too often be obscured by the interruptions of
day-to-day management. With the information in
this edition, we show you how to diminish the impact
to your organization when your leaders inevitably
move on to other opportunities.
As always, please contact us if we can assist
you
with your training needs.
Shannon Martin
Worth Quoting
Lawrence M. Miller
Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a
never-ending process.
Responding to Labor Deficits With Recruitment Techniques
By Cari McLean
As the U.S. economy rebounds and aging baby
boomers begin to leave the workforce, organizations
will need to attract and build more top talent than
ever. In fact, labor shortages and talent and skill
gaps are spread across a wide range of occupations
today.
Click below to read the full article.
Baby-Boomer Retirements: Pending Doom or Making Room?
By Vincent M. Cramer
Go back a few years and imagine yourself speaking
with a corporate executive. Ask if there are any
ominous blips on the corporate radar screen, and you
might hear of the Y2K crisis. Fast-forward back to
today. Ask the same question, and you will hear
about the encroaching mass retirement of the baby
boomer generation.
This is a vast number of workers with such vast
experience and such valuable skills that it is
frightening to think of the impact their retirement will
have on corporate performance. Will this wave
swamp U.S. corporations and agencies, creating
havoc, or will it gently roll under the hulls?
Click below to read the full article.
Spotlight on Solutions
Barbara Metzger - Succession Planning Partner
Barbara Metzger is the founder and president of
MaxImize, which she founded formed in 1990. With
an undergraduate B.S. degree from Texas Tech, she
has a long history of continuing education with
graduate courses and industry specific training. She
has earned more national development program
certifications than 95% of productivity consultants,
including Certified Professional Behavioral
Analyst and a Certified Professional Values Analyst.
In planning for successions, Barbara helps
companies identify the necessary skills for the
position and take an objective look at all the
candidates. Some of the available benefits include:
- Better qualified replacements of key positions
- Specific and consistent promotion policies
- Clear definition of necessary skills
- Better team and employee acceptance
- Clarity on development plans
- Faster integration into position requirements
If you'd like us to review your current succession
plan or to assist you with developing a plan, please
contact us. We'd be happy to help in any way
possible.
