Successful Succession Planning

Business Succession Planning Services

The key in succession management is to create a match between your organisation's future needs and the aspirations of each and every employee

When you are planning for succession you will be thinking about how to retain motivated people and increase employee engagement

Why do Management Succession Planning? 
Well developed succession plans will increase retention of top performing managers and employees alike because they appreciate the time, effort and attention invested in them  

Our clients tell us when they continually challenge and reward talented employees they increase employee retention. For the organisation, they do not have to rely on expensive and often risky external hires

How does Rainmaker help?

We find that the best approach to succession planning varies from organisation to organisation and job to job:

The competencies, skills and know-how required of each employee will be very different in each case

We therefore take a tailored approach and ensure we identify those talented individuals who will help your organisation to succeed whilst at the same time meeting individual career aspirations

We work with you and your teams to:

• Work with you to define the organisation that you'll need
• Define the skills and capabilities critical to that long term success
• Show you what behaviours and processes will underpin great performance
• Develop the best way to close the gaps
• Map out who in your current team has the values, beliefs and ambitions to step up
• Help you to develop and implement a sustainable succession management
• Reduce the dependency on outside consultants to help

How do we do that?

Quite simply, we have the best tools for putting together a robust repeatable succession management  
We may use one or all of the tools below to achieve your results:

• Job and Competency Analysis
• Values and Behaviour Mapping
• Assessment and Development centres
• 360 degree Feedback
• Leadership and Management Development programs, workshops and Coaching

What will you walk out with after engaging the Rainmaker team?

• A Succession Plan to be implemented and reviewed
• A more robust and less risky plan for your people success
• The buy-in of key stakeholders
• The know-how to do this yourself

What will the Rainmaker team give you?

• Sound advice to help you decide the best approach
• Assistance to put together and implement action plans
• Insight into what behaviours accelerate, sustain or block success
• Assistance to achieve more than you could on your own

Who actually delivers the Succession Planning Consulting?

Here are just 2 examples of our consultants

Kevin Howes:

Senior Consultant , HR systems specialist, Executive and Management Coach

Kevin has more than 25 years delivering bottom-line results in blue-chip companies and SMEs.
Much of his experience and successes have been in the financial services, IT, telecommunications, automotive and pharmaceutical sectors.

His clients tell him they like his informal, practical, straight-talking approach and his knack of quickly pinpointing where performance can be improved. He builds enduring relationships at all levels based on mutual trust, personal credibility and a passion for achieving agreed results.

Kevin has achieved a solid track record of delivering results in companies like Accident Exchange, Barclays, Britax, BT Cellnet (now 02), DaimlerChrysler, EPSON, Ford, Hewlett-Packard, Legal & General, Lloyds Bank, Nortel, Oracle, Sankyo, TMP Worldwide, and Zurich Financial Services.

Allan James:

Workshop Facilitator, Appreciative enquirer, Change Manager,

Management and Leadership Development Specialist

During the last 25 years, Allan has delivered consulting and facilitation services to leaders and managers in a range of businesses in Hewlett-Packard.

This has included the telecom, electronics, consulting and IT sectors as well as functional organisations such as HR, Supply Chain and Marketing. Prior to this he worked in the FMCG, Retailing, Telecom and Construction/ Civil Engineering industries.

He has focused his expertise in a number of areas: business strategy and planning; organisation design; managing organisational change; executive and manager coaching; Team development; business process improvement.  What Allan’s clients have valued about working with him is his ability to help them cut through complexity and find a practical way of moving forward.

Take a look at Our People if you want to know more about our consultants

What do your current clients say of the consultants?

A client recently said of Kevin Howes:

"The programme conducted by Rainmaker has been one of the most instructive
and useful experiences of my working life. The Rainmaker coach quickly understood
my business and challenges and provided a non-judgmental, balanced and pragmatic view.

The strategies I was able to formulate and implement have had a dramatic
bottom line impact and allowed me to become a more effective manager and leader.
I would recommend Rainmaker to anyone who struggles to find the time to deal with
the big stuff that makes the small stuff work smoothly"

If this program looks like something that would suit you…

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