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Introduction
Course overview
Career development and succession planning are essential for building future leaders, retaining top talent, and ensuring business continuity. Organizations that invest in employee growth create stronger engagement, higher performance, and readiness for key roles. This course provides participants with practical tools to design career pathways, identify high-potential employees, and develop effective succession plans.
What you will achieve
Learning objectives
- Understand career development principles
- Design structured career pathways
- Identify high-potential employees
- Build effective succession planning systems
- Align talent development with business needs
- Improve employee retention through growth opportunities
- Assess readiness for critical positions
- Create practical development and succession plans
Who should attend
Target audience
- HR Professionals
- Talent Management Specialists
- HR Managers
- Organizational Development Staff
- Learning and Development Professionals
- Department Managers
- Anyone involved in talent growth and succession decisions
- Target Competencies
Methodology
Learning approach
- This course uses an interactive and practical approach through presentations, case studies, group discussions, talent assessment exercises, planning workshops, and real workplace examples.
Complete course outline
Five focused days of learning and application
The timings provided are estimates and may vary depending on the number of participants and the discussions taking place during the sessions. They are indicative only and do not constitute a binding commitment.
Day 1
Putting People First in Talent Strategy
- Putting people before numbers
- People’s wants from their organizations
- Organizations’ wants from their people
- The war for talent
- Coffee break
- The war for talent (continued)
- Today's top priorities in HR
- Disengagement and the downward performance spiral
- Building a people-based strategy
Day 2
Foundations of Career Management and Succession Planning
- 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
- Coffee break
- Essential elements in an integrated career development system (continued)
- Definition of succession planning
- Main aims of succession planning and management
- Distinguishing succession planning from replacement planning
Day 3
Building Organizational Readiness for Development
- Promoting a development culture
- Career development as a change agent
- Roles and responsibilities in a development culture
- Role of human resources
- Coffee break
- Role of human resources (continued)
- Role of line managers
- Role of top management
- Role of employees in development success
Day 4
Identifying High Potentials and Career Tools
- Identifying key positions
- High potentials and high professionals
- Assessing individual potential
- Best practices to improve management of high potentials
- Spotting, developing, and retaining high potentials
- Coffee break
- Spotting, developing, and retaining high potentials (continued)
- Competencies as the foundation for career development
- Building competency frameworks
- Coaching, mentoring, and career counseling services
Day 5
Developing Internal Successors
- Making the business case for succession planning
- Starting a systematic succession planning program
- Refining the succession planning process
- Assessing present work requirements and job performance
- Coffee break
- Assessing present work requirements and job performance (continued)
- Assessing future work requirements and individual potential
- Closing development gaps through IDPs
- Designing the Individual Development Plan (IDP)
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What does Certificate in Career Development and Succession Planning (HRT-047) cover?
This course covers Human Resources and Training through a structured five-day outline focused on practical application, discussion, and implementation planning.
When is the next available session?
The next scheduled session starts on 9 - 13 November 2026. See the course schedules section for the available dates and delivery formats.
Who should attend this course?
HR Professionals, Talent Management Specialists, HR Managers
Is bilingual course delivery available?
Yes. All course materials and presentations are provided in English, while bilingual explanation and discussion support may be available depending on the selected location and trainer availability. For example, when attending a course in Istanbul, you may request a Turkish-speaking trainer to explain the English course content in Turkish. Arabic explanation support may also be requested at this location. Other languages are available in selected cities. You can choose your preferred language support as an optional preference during registration.
How can I register for a session?
Use any Register button next to the available course dates to open the participant registration page and submit your booking request for the selected session.
Is this course available online as well as classroom-based?
Check the course schedules section for currently published classroom and Online / Live sessions.
Where are classroom sessions delivered?
Current classroom venues include Barcelona, Munich, Amsterdam, London, Paris.
How long is the training programme?
The programme runs for five days, with up to five training hours per day, from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Each programme includes a total of 25 training hours.
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