Prepare the Next Generation of Leaders

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Manage succession plans for your key positions

Workday Succession Planning provides simple and visual tools to help succession managers build, manage, and evaluate succession plans for any important position in their organization.

With Workday Succession Planning, you can:

  • Anticipate and avoid gaps in the leadership pipeline
  • Identify qualified successors across teams, organizations, and borders
  • Compare profiles for multiple candidates to find the top candidate for each position
  • Monitor successor readiness, flight risk, and the overall health of the succession pipeline
  • Prepare and develop succession candidates for their future roles

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Workday Succession Planning helps you engage and develop high potentials, avoid critical leadership gaps, and prepare the organization for the future.  With Workday Succession Planning, you have the tools you need to identify the best people across your organization and prepare them for critical leadership roles.

Identify High Potentials

  • Consumer-like search tools allow fast identification of the best candidates for future leadership roles based on potential, performance, and overall talent profile
  • Compare succession profiles for multiple candidates in order to select top candidates
  • Add an entire talent pool to a succession plan instead of each person individually

Nominate Succession Candidates

  • Collaboratively select the best succession candidates for critical roles
  • Assign candidates to one or more succession plans

Prepare Future Leaders

  • Assess candidate readiness for each position
  • Monitor succession pipeline and readiness for critical roles and take action as needed
  • Create tailored development plans for succession candidates

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