Succession Planning Insights

Use Context to Ensure Leader Success

Faced with uncertainty, businesses must constantly be ready to tackle new challenges and create effective plans despite having a moving target.

SHL has found that matching a leader’s ability, potential, and experience to the context of a role increases the accuracy of succession planning decisions by 4x, and identifies leaders who will perform 22% better on average.

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Bring the Science of Context to Succession Planning

The real-time and data-driven way to build agility and effectiveness into your leadership pipeline.

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Find Your Perfect Successors

Gather data on ability, potential, and experience using the Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) and an Experiences Survey. Participants are instantly evaluated by the in-built science on the SHL Platform giving you immediate, prescriptive insights.

Agile Succession and Scenario Planning

Backfill roles quickly with real-time insights. Simply define the contexts of a role, select your potential successors, and discover who is most likely to be successful in that role.

Alternatively, build agility into your succession management by exploring best-fit leaders in multiple scenarios and nurture bench strength.

Delivering Organization-Wide Benefits

Employees benefit from automatic and immediately curated, personalized development reports, and are supported with agile career paths for roles they will thrive in.

HR benefit from reliable and fair decisions that they can quickly make in-house through real-time objective insight – all supported by the business’s language, data.

Business leaders benefit from leadership positions being filled internally – with confidence, at a lower expense, and in a shorter time – minimizing disruption.

Succession Planning: Demo Hub

Our demo video and interactive tour will show you how to bring agility and accuracy to your succession planning.

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Insights Dashboards: Guided Tour

Take an interactive tour of your insights dashboard to experience the ability to make reliable succession decisions, in-house.

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Customer Testimonials

In all the appointments we’ve made since, we’ve had none of the former problems of people not being right for the role. All of them have been successful. SHL’s insights have proved an absolute gold mine.

Vijay Kashyap

Senior Director, Global Human Resources and Product Supply Chain

Campari

It has allowed us to broaden our horizons and look at leadership differently.

Brenda Lussier

Chief Deputy of HR

The Superior Court of California, County of Riverside

We’ve moved from succession planning based on gut feel and personal likes to a full-fledged HR architecture and system that helps us make better decisions and enables targeted development.

Vijay Kashyap

Senior Director, Global Human Resources and Product Supply Chain

Campari

Introducing the Power of Context

SHL conducted a global, multi-industry study of over 9,000 leaders, determining what attributes and experiences make them successful. This research was named “The most comprehensive leadership study in decades” by the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and won their award for ‘Best Applied Research in the Workplace.’

Read SHL’s whitepaper to understand the science and power of context in succession planning.

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One Solution, All the Analytics You Need

SHL’s Succession Planning insights are available as a standalone solution or as part of our multi award-winning Talent Management solution, Mobilize. Mobilize uses a single source of talent data to support all your people decisions.

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