Succession Planning
What is Succession Planning?
The process of identifying and developing future leaders and key personnel to ensure continuity of critical roles and organizational knowledge.
Terms that appear alongside succession planning
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as succession planning. The number is how many controls name both.
- performance management 4 shared controls
- audit 4 shared controls
- governance 4 shared controls
- resilience 3 shared controls
- due diligence 2 shared controls
- integrity 2 shared controls
- data quality 2 shared controls
- strategic planning 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern succession planning
What the standards actually require on succession planning
Requirements naming succession planning across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Human governance - leadership development, succession, and talent management. Control from ISO 37000:2021 framework, domain: Organizational Culture and Capability.
ISO37000-CC-03 · Cl. 4.3.2 Competence - Leadership development, succession planning, and talent management for governance →FRLM-based leadership development program implementation. ELEMENTS: (1) FRLM EDUCATION - foundational understanding of the model + 9 factors + 3 outcomes + augmentation + ethical underpinning;
FRLM-Implementation-360-Coaching · FRLM-Based Leadership Development - 360-Degree Feedback, Executive Coaching, Action Learning →Develop people resilience through succession planning, wellbeing support, and skills redundancy across critical roles.
BS65000-8.3 · People Resilience →Strategic and Business Planning competency area covers organisational and system-level planning capabilities. Strategic planning and implementation for nursing organisations + nursing services + national nursing associations: vision + mission + values + SWOT +...
ICN-LFC-StrategicBusiness-Planning-BusinessCase-Financial-Performance-Capacity · ICN LFC - Strategic and Business Planning - Strategic Planning + Business Case + Financial Management + Performance Measurement + Capacity Building →Governance + Coordination cover organisational elements for IFRS 17 implementation. Per public IFRS 17 abstract + IFRS Foundation Project Summary + Wikipedia + Big 4 Insurance Industry Insights (full IFRS 17 text NOT reproduced): IFRS 17 Governance + Controls...
IFRS17-Governance-Controls-Coord-SolvencyII-IAIS-EIOPA-NAIC-PRA-APRA · IFRS 17 - Governance + Internal Controls + Coordination with Solvency II + IAIS + EIOPA + NAIC + PRA + APRA + 2024-2025 Pipeline →Kotter 8-Step Step 8 - Institute Change (Anchor New Approaches in the Culture). Create better performance through customer + productivity-oriented behaviour + more and better leadership + more effective management + articulate connections between new behaviour...
KOTTER-Step8-Institute-Change-Culture-Anchor-Behaviour-Norms-Shared-Values-Succession-Onboarding-Storytelling · Kotter Step 8 Institute Change + Anchor in Culture + Behaviour + Norms + Succession →Questions people ask about succession planning
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