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What we deliver

Leadership & succession

Build career pathways and succession pipelines for business-critical roles.

Best suited for

Key-person dependency, low internal mobility, unclear leadership bench.

What we deliver

  • IDPs & skills library
  • 9-box & performance/potential
  • Critical roles & talent pools
  • Readiness & flight-risk views

Most businesses discover their leadership gap the week someone resigns. We assess readiness against a defined leadership standard, build visible career pathways, and give you a succession view that shows who is ready now, who is ready later, and what closes the difference.

The business problem

Key-person dependency, low internal mobility, unclear leadership bench.

Practical business value

A visible internal pipeline and lower business continuity risk.

Who this is for

  • Businesses dependent on a few irreplaceable people
  • Sales managers promoted for results, not leadership capability
  • Organisations with low internal fill for leadership roles
  • Boards seeking continuity evidence for critical positions

How it runs

A sequenced engagement, not a workshop

  1. 01

    Define critical roles

    Positions with the highest continuity and commercial risk identified.

  2. 02

    Assess readiness

    Structured leadership questionnaires, evidence and manager input — never a single score.

  3. 03

    Calibrate as a group

    Facilitated review builds one comparable view of performance and potential.

  4. 04

    Develop successors

    Targeted plans, stretch moves and pathways tracked to a readiness date.

What we measure

  • Ready-now coverage for critical roles
  • Internal fill rate for leadership vacancies
  • Time-to-readiness for named successors
  • Retention of identified successors

Packages

Start with the package that fits the decision

Talent review

Per leadership layer

  • 9-box calibration session
  • Readiness ratings
  • Flight-risk view
  • Agreed development actions

Succession programme

Per critical-role set

  • Critical-role mapping
  • Successor coverage and bench view
  • Talent pools
  • Successor development tracking

Deliverables

What you walk away with

  • Ready-now successor coverage for every critical role
  • Career pathways your people can see and follow
  • Internal-fill rate and time-to-readiness tracked over time

Timeline

Implementation at a glance

Weeks 1-2
Critical roles and criteria defined
Weeks 3-4
Evidence gathered and calibration run
Weeks 5-6
Succession plan and development actions live
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Questions

Common questions

Do assessments decide promotions?
No. Readiness evidence informs a human decision alongside performance and business context — it never decides on its own.
Should we tell people they are successors?
We help you set that communication line. Transparency about development beats silence, without implying a guarantee.
How often should succession be reviewed?
Twice yearly for critical roles, with a lighter quarterly check on movement and flight risk.

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