Talent & Succession Management

Talent and succession management as effective risk management

Succession planning is more than just a personnel issue - it is a crucial part of strategic risk management. Talent and succession management ensures that your key positions are secured in the long term. Critical vacancies can only be effectively avoided if key individuals are specifically identified and developed across all hierarchical levels.

Professional talent management ensures the future viability of your company. The Talent Management Index^® offers you a clear evaluation tool: it measures the effectiveness and professionalism of your succession and talent management system - comprehensible, comparable and strategically aligned.

• The Talent Management Index^® study aims to gain well-founded insights into the effectiveness of talent and succession management - across all industries, in a comparable and practical manner. The focus is on the following areas:

• Benchmarking at eye level: direct comparison with other participating companies - differentiated by industry, company size and organizational structure

• Creation of valid comparative data at company, industry and country level

• Identification of best practices and development of practice-oriented guidelines for professional talent management

• Specific recommendations for the successful implementation and further development of talent and succession strategies

• Identification of success-critical factors for effective talent and succession management

• Systematic analysis of typical stumbling blocks and challenges in implementation

• The study provides companies with valuable impetus to reflect on their talent strategy based on data and align it for the future.

Participation in the study provides you with valuable, data-based insights into the quality and future viability of your talent and succession management. You benefit specifically in the following areas:

• Transparency on succession quality: you will find out how professionally and risk-consciously you are filling your key positions - and where there is potential for improvement.

• Comparison with other companies: You receive a clear classification of your talent and succession strategy in a benchmark comparison by industry, size and structure.

• Strategic skills development: You receive specific recommendations on how to build up future skills in a targeted manner and prepare your employees for this.

• Systematic assessment: Detailed evaluation along central fields of action:

  • Strategic orientation

  • Management of succession risks

  • Talent identification

  • Skills development

  • Instruments & IT

  • Management and performance review

• Practical recommendations for action: Based on best-practice examples, you will receive tailor-made suggestions for your next steps - to professionalize your talent management.

• Designing specialist careers: You will receive concrete impulses on how to strategically develop and sustainably anchor specialist careers.

• Quality ranking: You will receive an assessment of the quality of your skills development and your learning culture (passage management).

• Effective assessment: You will find out whether you are on the right track - and if not, what you should change.

Your benefit: Clear orientation, data-based decisions and targeted further development of your talent strategy - for sustainable corporate success.