Attending this training will not only enhance your leadership skills but also contribute directly to the long-term success and sustainability of your organization. By implementing robust succession plans, you’ll help cultivate the next generation of leaders and create a seamless leadership transition for your team’s future.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
Succession planning is a critical process for organizations to ensure continuity and preparedness for leadership transitions. This session will provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of succession planning, its importance, and key strategies for implementation.A successful succession plan helps to not only pave the way for new, and upcoming leaders but also ensures that the resident expert(s) offer a holistic share-out of their job knowledge well before their departure, thus ensuring minimal impact on operations. Although many succession plans focus on key leaders; a successful plan incorporates jobs at all levels and keys focuses in on several key steps to ensure success. Succession planning is a value-add for large and small organizations. This session will walk through why we plan, when we plan, and potential pitfalls if we fail to plan.
Whether you are a leader looking to prepare your organization for the future or an HR professional tasked with implementing succession planning initiatives, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to effectively plan for leadership transitions at all levels of your organization.
AREA COVERED
- Introduction to Succession Planning
- Key Components of an Effective Succession Plan
- Common Pitfalls and Risks
- Building a Talent Development Strategy
- Evaluating and Updating Succession Plans
- Practical Tools and Frameworks for Implementation
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand the importance of succession planning for organizational success.
- Identify Key Components of a Succession Plan
- Learn when and why succession planning should be implemented.
- Identify potential pitfalls of failing to implement a succession plan.
- Develop strategies for implementing a successful succession plan at all levels of an organization.
- Apply practical tools and frameworks.
WHO WILL BENEFIT?
- This is a topic that is good for managers, leaders, supervisors, HR, and startups. Really, anybody.
A successful succession plan helps to not only pave the way for new, and upcoming leaders but also ensures that the resident expert(s) offer a holistic share-out of their job knowledge well before their departure, thus ensuring minimal impact on operations. Although many succession plans focus on key leaders; a successful plan incorporates jobs at all levels and keys focuses in on several key steps to ensure success. Succession planning is a value-add for large and small organizations. This session will walk through why we plan, when we plan, and potential pitfalls if we fail to plan.
Whether you are a leader looking to prepare your organization for the future or an HR professional tasked with implementing succession planning initiatives, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to effectively plan for leadership transitions at all levels of your organization.
- Introduction to Succession Planning
- Key Components of an Effective Succession Plan
- Common Pitfalls and Risks
- Building a Talent Development Strategy
- Evaluating and Updating Succession Plans
- Practical Tools and Frameworks for Implementation
- Understand the importance of succession planning for organizational success.
- Identify Key Components of a Succession Plan
- Learn when and why succession planning should be implemented.
- Identify potential pitfalls of failing to implement a succession plan.
- Develop strategies for implementing a successful succession plan at all levels of an organization.
- Apply practical tools and frameworks.
- This is a topic that is good for managers, leaders, supervisors, HR, and startups. Really, anybody.
Speaker Profile

Sonja Pasquantonio is the VP of Human Resources, Training, and Development at Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc. She has over 30-years of experience in various Human Resources roles spanning government, non-profit, and quasi-public agencies. Sonja consults for GRC Educators and offers training courses in many areas. She’s also an Adjunct Professor at University of Arizona’s Global Campus (UAGC). Sonja also sits on the Public Media Business Association Board of Directors. She has dual master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and English.
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