Certificate in Career Development and Succession Planning |Smart

Overview

Why Attend

Career development and succession planning have become increasingly critical for organizational success in recent years. Studies show that 60% of companies lack a formal succession planning process, even though effective succession planning can reduce turnover rates by up to 50%. Additionally, organizations with structured career development programs are 40% more likely to retain top talent. This interactive course bridges that gap by offering cutting-edge methodologies and strategies for successful career development and succession planning, enhancing employee engagement. Attending this course will also give you practical tips for creating clear career paths, building a robust talent pipeline, and developing flexible and sustainable succession strategies.

Course Methodology

This course uses interactive training techniques such as lectures, case studies, and group activities. It also presents best practices in career development and succession planning and invites participants to share their organizational experiences to optimize the learning process.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Differentiate between traditional HR focus and career-planning-oriented HR focus
Demonstrate understanding of the basics of career development and succession planning
Drive organizational readiness for change and promote a development culture
Identify high potentials and apply key strategies and best practices
Utilize different career development tools and methodologies
Prepare individual development plans and manage career choices

Target Audience

Human resources managers, line managers, HR business partners, team leaders and specialists.

Target Competencies

Career Development
Succession Planning
Talent Management
Planning and organizing
Goal Setting
Performance Management

Course Outline

Putting People First
- Putting people before numbers
- People’s wants from their organizations
- Organizations’ wants from their people
- The war for talent
- Today's top priorities in HR
- Disengagement and the downward performance spiral
- People-based strategy
- HR activities: Traditional focus versus career development focus
Basics of Career Management and Succession Planning and Management
- Careers today: The importance of development
- Definition of career development
- The career development process and links to HR
- Essential elements in an integrated career development system
- Definition of succession planning
- Main aims and reasons for establishing a succession planning and management system
- Distinguishing succession planning from replacement planning
Organizational Readiness for Change
- Promoting a development culture
- Characteristics of a development culture
- Career development as a change agent
- Roles and responsibilities in a development culture
- Role of human resources
- Role of line managers
- Role of top management
- Role of 'developees'
Identifying High Potentials
- Key positions
- High potentials and high professionals
- Assessing individual potential
- Best practices to improve the management of high potentials
- Qualities of processes to spot, develop, and retain high potentials
Career Development: Tools and Methodologies
- Competencies: The foundation for career development
- Competencies framework
- Coaching: An essential managerial function
- Mentoring: A must-have system for career development
- Career counseling services
Developing Internal Successors
- Making the business case for succession planning and management
- Starting the systematic succession planning and management program
- Refining the program
- Assessing present work requirements and individual job performance
- Assessing future work requirements and individual potential
- Closing the development gap: The Individual Development Plan (IDP)
- Designing the IDP

Schedule & Fees

2026 Schedule & Fees

25 - 29 Oct, 2026

English

Per participant USD 2,900

25 - 29 Oct, 2026

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

8 - 12 Nov, 2026

English

Per participant USD 2,900

8 - 12 Nov, 2026

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

2027 Schedule & Fees

24 - 28 Jan, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

24 - 28 Jan, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

7 - 11 Feb, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

7 - 11 Feb, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

25 - 29 Apr, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

25 - 29 Apr, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

9 - 13 May, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

9 - 13 May, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

25 - 29 Jul, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

25 - 29 Jul, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

8 - 12 Aug, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

8 - 12 Aug, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

24 - 28 Oct, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

24 - 28 Oct, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900

7 - 11 Nov, 2027

English

Per participant USD 2,900

7 - 11 Nov, 2027

Arabic

Per participant USD 2,900