Succession Management: Whose Eyes Are Focused on Talent?
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 7, 2007
When it comes to spotting talent, perspective is everything.? Asking managers to choose and groom their own replacements is a misguided notion for a variety of reasons I’ve discussed in previous posts.? They simply don’t have enough distance on the situation.
Rather, the manager-once-removed should be accountable for mentoring for long-term career development.? Why? They are in the best position to see which employees working two levels down are currently capable for a promotion, in other words, which employee(s) could currently work for them, the manager-once-removed.
Why? When organizations are designed correctly, each layer of management should have problem solving capability one level beyond that of the previous.? When this is the case, each layer of management is capable of seeing a bigger picture than the previous.
Notice how?a little distance on the image below gave you an entirely different perspective?
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Filed Under Executive Leadership, High Potential, Managerial Leadership, Organization Design, Requisite Organization, Succession Planning, Talent Management
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