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Replacement Planning: 3 Steps to Develop Your Organization’s Strategy

HR Bartender

If there’s one activity that has more of an impact than succession planning, it’s replacement planning. A replacement plan identifies “backups” for positions. But replacement planning doesn’t have to be defined as a subset of succession planning.

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Brokers: 5 HR Trends to Guide Your 2025 Strategy

Extensis

Quick look: A new year is here, and with it comes a fresh set of workplace trends, from further incorporating artificial intelligence into daily tasks to designing comprehensive succession plans. As such, clients should adapt their communication strategies and leadership styles to meet their unique workforce demographic.

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Succession planning 101: A step-by-step guide for small businesses

Business Management Daily

To avoid the stress and uncertainty of these transitions, it’s helpful to create a formal succession plan for your most critical roles to prevent operational disruptions when the time comes for a key employee to leave your organization. What is succession planning?

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Succession planning should be applied to all employees—not just top executives

HR Brew

But imagine if they had to do the same for the entire organization… Well, if you ask Colin Klein, managing director and co-founder of learning and development platform Skills Copilot for Microsoft 365, HR leaders should have succession plans for every role. To that end, he suggested a skills-based approach to succession planning.

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Organizational Talent Pools: 4 Steps to Developing Employees

HR Bartender

This allows a talent pool to address the biggest challenge with succession planning , which is telling individuals they’re part of the plan. Some industries are moving so quickly that they don’t know what next year looks like, much less what their five-year recruiting strategy should include.

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Career Pathing: Developing a Big-Picture Strategy

Primalogik

A high percentage of Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z employees expect ongoing developmental support from their company, so career pathing is a smart business strategy. HR : Your HR team can lead succession-planning efforts that support career-pathing discussions. Inform managers about prospective future staffing needs.

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HR Software and the Future of Workforce Forecasting

EmployeeConnect

In the past, workforce planning typically involved using spreadsheets and gut feeling to predict headcount needs. These methods were time-consuming, error-prone, and lacked the nuance required for long-term strategy. Scenario planning is another area where HR software adds strategic value.