Assess the current state of executive successor preparation against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.
Leading Successor Preparation Programmes for Senior Executive Positions
Turn executive successor preparation from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Teams read what their leaders tolerate on executive successor preparation far more accurately than what their leaders announce. Most failures in the wider organisational leadership agenda trace back to a conversation someone avoided having. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about this aspect of organisational leadership. A common pattern is strong design of executive successor preparation paired with weak follow-through. The level assumes working familiarity with the management team but no prior formal training in the practice within organisational leadership. The course covers this part of organisational leadership at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of executive successor preparation and supervised application. The most reliable predictor of sound the practice within organisational leadership is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. Work concludes with a self-assessment of this aspect of organisational leadership that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Protect the team's capacity so executive successor preparation is not delivered through exhaustion.
Identify the failure points in executive successor preparation most likely to cause loss, and control them first.
Resolve conflict about executive successor preparation without leaving residue.
Communicate the reasoning behind executive successor preparation, not only the conclusion.
Document decisions about executive successor preparation in a form that remains useful after the people change.
Align the incentives of different functions so executive successor preparation is not quietly sabotaged.
Who Should Attend
High-potential staff being prepared for wider responsibility for executive successor preparation.
Executives leading multi-function programmes involving executive successor preparation.
Managers of geographically distributed teams handling executive successor preparation.
Staff seconded into improvement work on executive successor preparation.
Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by executive successor preparation.
Consultants coaching leadership teams on executive successor preparation.
Course Modules
Executive successor preparation: the conversations that decide the outcome
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Moving executive successor preparation through people who do not report to you
- Identify your successor for executive successor preparation and the gap they need to close.
- Confirm that those complying with executive successor preparation understand why it exists.
- Compare the cost of executive successor preparation with the cost of its absence.
- State the outcome expected from executive successor preparation in a single sentence anyone can repeat.
Session 2Reading the current state of executive successor preparation honestly
- Test the procedure for executive successor preparation against a realistic scenario.
- Build the competence framework that supports executive successor preparation.
- Set the review point at which executive successor preparation will be reconsidered.
- Decide what you will delegate on executive successor preparation and what you will not, and say why.
Executive successor preparation: resilience and the personal cost of leading
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Testing executive successor preparation before relying on it
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in executive successor preparation.
- Arrange the handover of executive successor preparation so capability survives staff changes.
- Agree what will be standardised in executive successor preparation and what will not.
- Give one piece of specific feedback on executive successor preparation within the week.
Session 2Saying the thing about executive successor preparation that nobody wants to say
- Check whether incentives anywhere reward behaviour that undermines executive successor preparation.
- Prepare how you will respond when executive successor preparation is challenged publicly.
- Identify the conversation about executive successor preparation you have been postponing, and schedule it.
- Test whether the team can explain executive successor preparation in their own words.
Executive successor preparation: setting direction people can act on
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Holding the line on executive successor preparation when it costs you
- Set the decision rights on executive successor preparation: who decides, who is consulted, who is told.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether executive successor preparation is improving.
- Close out actions on executive successor preparation rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Anticipate the objections executive successor preparation will raise and prepare the answers.
Session 2Who answers for executive successor preparation, and to whom
- Confirm that contractual obligations around executive successor preparation are understood.
- Reduce the variation in how executive successor preparation is carried out between teams.
- Name the person accountable for each part of executive successor preparation, not the committee.
- Identify which function can quietly block executive successor preparation and address it directly.
Executive successor preparation: measuring whether leadership actually changed anything
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The meeting that finally unblocks executive successor preparation
- Draft the minimum viable leadership plan for executive successor preparation.
- Confirm that the people affected by executive successor preparation heard it from you first.
- Agree the standard on executive successor preparation and confirm it applies to everyone.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for executive successor preparation.
Session 2Deciding on executive successor preparation when the information will never be complete
- Set out the decisions in executive successor preparation that require sign-off and by whom.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on executive successor preparation.
- Assess the workload executive successor preparation adds and what you will remove to make room.
- Review a past decision on executive successor preparation and state honestly what you would change.
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- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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