This session will explore the importance of effective leadership succession in today’s evolving organisational landscape, highlighting what good practice looks like in action.
It will consider how leadership expectations and skills are changing, and how organisations can take a more strategic, future-focused approach to developing their leadership pipeline.
Attendees will hear from CIPD about the importance of strategic leadership succession planning and how to do this.
There will also be insights from a local authority showcasing how they are actively supporting leadership succession within their organisation, along with a graduate of the organisation’s CMI Level 7 Aspiring Executive Leaders programme shares their development journey and how it has prepared them for future leadership roles.
Learning Objectives
- Highlight the importance of structured and planned leadership succession and how this can be achieved.
- Demonstrate how leadership succession should be aligned organisational objectives.
- Discuss the importance of being future-focused when considering the skills and knowledge leaders need to meet challenges they face.
- Showcase examples of how effective leadership succession has been undertaken within a public sector organisation
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