Career Development and Succession Planning Training Course in Dubai, UAE

Course overview

Career development and succession planning are things that emphasize a balance between people and organizational needs, simultaneously revealing gaps in staff structure and eliminates breaches that can save a lot of time and money for your company. Implementing a career development and succession planning approach helps your organization to overcome pain points such as nurturing new leaders within the organization and minimizing competency gaps. So, these are the main benefits of succession planning in an organization, but how to create a career path for employees? With a developed career growth strategy, and our special course will help you with this.

This training will provide all participants with a clear understanding of what should be done within their organizations to implement corporate career development initiatives for the professional growth of each employee. Attendees will learn how to design career growth systems and measure results. Throughout the course, participants will practice and be able to understand a broad range of career development tools and methodologies that can be immediately implemented at their workplaces. Attendees will also learn how to integrate coaching tools for personal professional growth in their organization and how beneficial it can be for their overall professional growth strategy. At the end of the course, all participants will thoroughly go through the phases of succession planning, starting from the initiation stage and finishing with an evaluation of achieved results.

All HR professionals can benefit from this training, and the following skills will be acquired through the course:

• Increase the satisfaction and loyalty of your employees via new initiatives
• Implement a reliable career development and talent management strategy in your company
• Use innovative and progressive tools for the professional growth of staff
• Apply a coaching approach to overcome various organizational problems
• Create an efficient succession program for long-term business success
• Initiate talent management activities to meet key business requirements

Who Should Attend

• Department Heads
• Senior Managers
• HR Professionals
• People and Career Development Specialists
• Human Resources Managers
• Line Managers
• HR Business Partners
• People at the start of HR career or those who want to dive deeper into people development

What will you gain

• Make a positive impact on the performance of the organization via career development
• Increase the efficiency of all departments through the application of talent management
• Reduce the turnover of your staff and improve satisfaction at work
• Improve employee engagement and increase business performance
• Make your career development program a competitive advantage for your company
• Change your focus from traditional to to career development focus
• Learn how to design career developments systems that bring results
• Assess your current state and reveal the gaps to fill for organizational improvement
• Acquire techniques that will help you to overcome any challenges in succession planning
• Advance your company via superior talent management tools and methods
• Make your organization stand out with a superior “focus on people” strategy

Course content

• What is the priority - people or performance?
  • Traditional focus versus career development focus
  • People and organizational needs
  • Today's top priorities in HR
  • Disengagement and the downward performance spiral
• Designing career development systems
  • The importance of development
  • Objectives of career development systems
  • Indicators of career program effectiveness
  • Career development issues with teams
  • Career management -definition and important concepts
• The basics of succession planning
  • Definition of succession planning
  • Benefits of formal succession planning
  • Changes in the organization related to career development
• Career development: tools and methodologies
  • Career scenarios
  • Implications of workplace changes
  • Career personality tests
  • Development programs for professional competencies of employees
  • Career consulting at different stages of the employee's work
  • The role of mentors in career development
  • How to work with high potential employees: assessment and development methods
• Assessment and development centers
  • Definition of career development and succession planning
  • Techniques for reliable and effective performance assessment
  • What are the factors affecting assessments?
  • Assessment methodology
  • How to use evaluation results for staff development plans
  • Tips for giving feedback after assessments
• Coaching tools in career development
  • Coaching opportunities in career development and succession planning
  • Who is the coach for an employee: Manager, Trainer, or HR?
  • Career crisis - how to help your employees
  • Coaching tools for different succession and career development situations
• Corporate succession program
  • Challenges of succession planning
  • Parallel and innovative approaches
  • Forecast of the company's needs and the Individual Development Plan (IDP)
  • Creating a succession plan
  • Best practices of succession planning
• Phases of Succession Planning
  • Begin the program
  • Needs assessment on current roles & responsibilities
  • Performance appraisals or reviews
  • Measure future employee capabilities
  • Gap analysis
  • Bridge the gap
  • Evaluate and monitor the program
• Talent management – a new proactive approach to focus on
  • Talent acquisition – steps and best practices for the recruiting process
  • Talent alignment – coordinating new personnel with a long-term view
  • Talent assessment: performance management and diversity – creating a fair and inclusive environment
  • Talent measurement/compensation
  • Talent retention and transition