Identification and Development of Talent Pools for Succession Planning

Businesses compete as much on the strength of their human capital as on their financial capital.  The way you attract, select, develop and retain top talent earmarks your organisation as an employer people will go out of their way to work for, differentiates you from your competitors and builds a diverse, high performing workplace.

At SML we help you identify and develop the individuals who have the potential to make a significant difference to organisational performance, either now or in the future. Using bespoke assessment tools, development centres and facilitated learning, we open up opportunities to unlock hidden potential in your current staff and to select the best talent in the market place.

When we partner you in proactive succession planning, our objectivity and commitment to transparency, fair treatment and equality will reassure you that your processes are robust enough to justify selection decisions. If positive action is required to achieve your diversity targets, we can help with internal communications to ensure no one misunderstands how positive action differs from positive discrimination.

See SML News for case studies which show how we have developed newly-promoted managers as they negotiate the necessary transitions to the next level in the leadership pipeline.

Adapted from The Leadership Pipeline – Charan et al, 2001