Certificate in Career Development and Succession Planning

Program Overview

Organisations that cannot fill critical roles from within face leadership gaps, higher hiring costs and loss of knowledge. This programme links career development and succession planning into one system: identifying critical and pivotal roles, defining success profiles, assessing potential and readiness, running talent review meetings with tools such as the nine-box grid, building talent pools and individual development plans, and designing career paths and dual ladders. It also covers measuring bench strength and pipeline health, and connecting succession to national talent priorities such as Saudisation and Emiratisation of leadership roles.

Learning Outcomes

• ✓Identify critical roles using criteria for business impact, scarcity and vacancy risk.
• ✓Develop success profiles that define the experience, competencies and attributes for key positions.
• ✓Assess employee performance and potential and calibrate results in a talent review meeting.
• ✓Build succession plans with readiness levels and targeted development actions for successors.
• ✓Design career paths and individual development plans that combine experience, coaching and learning.
• ✓Measure succession pipeline health using bench strength, readiness and internal fill rate indicators.

Target Audience

• Talent management and succession planning specialists
• HR business partners and HR managers
• Learning and leadership development managers
• Line managers responsible for developing successors

Detailed Program Modules

Training Methodology

Applied Project & Assessment