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Leadership Talent Management & Succession Planning
Talent management and succession planning are essential to ensure effective human capital management in agency senior leadership. These processes require an organization take a planned, deliberate and holistic approach to selection, development, and retention of its workforce.
Talent management is a process that addresses competency gaps, particularly in mission critical positions and occupations, by implementing and maintaining programs to attract, acquire, develop, promote, and retain quality talent. Succession planning is a proactive and systematic process where organizations identify those positions considered to be at the core of the organization-- too critical to be left vacant or filled by any but the best qualified persons—and then create a strategic plan to fill them with experienced and capable employees.
While talent management focuses on individual executive needs to cultivate the potential of each executive,succession planning simultaneously ensures organizational needs are addressed and quality talent is ready to move into critical positions. A strategic TM&SP process enhances organizational agility by leveraging an organization’s current information on the capabilities and talents of its workforce to meet the demands of the evolving political and business environment. Additionally, an integrated talent management and succession planning sustains efficient operational requirements, improves knowledge management, and ensures an agency maximizes leadership talent at all organizational levels.
Regulations
Title 5, Section 412.101 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (5 U.S.C. 412.101) states: “In consultation with the Office of Personnel Management, the head of each agency shall establish - (1) a comprehensive management succession program to provide training to employees to develop managers for the agency.” The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing this guidance and supplemental infographic to help agencies implement and enhance an annual leadership talent management and succession planning (TM&SP) process. The process consists of five main stages: (1) determine future executive resources needs; (2) evaluate current talent state; (3) align talent to agency needs; (4) finalize executive development plans; and (5) implement and update plans.
Stage 1: Tools and Resources
- Scenario Based Workforce Planning- This guide provides some recommended steps to help with your agency’s workforce planning process. It is organized into the following sections: (1) background and uses for scenario-based workforce planning and (2) how to apply scenario-based workforce planning. A list of additional information about scenario-based workforce planning is also included.
Stage 2: Tools and Resources