Helping Line Managers become successful Talent Managers...

The workforce is showing signs of movement again, but over the past few years many organisations have been characterised by low turnover.

Is it okay if someone in your team doesn’t want to progress their career? Many managers feel required to push people to progress their careers – we all feel the organisational pressure to move everyone forward.

The short answer: in an ideal world with plenty time on your hands, is “yes”. But the reality of day-to-day life is that you’ll need to prioritise – who most needs a succession plan?

Innovation is an important business priority – but if you want to fuel it you need to be clear. Are you just trying to get your team to manage change that’s already happening, or do you want to encourage people to take risks and think of new ideas? If it’s the latter, here are nine ideas you can try:

Many managers avoid succession planning – the process of identifying key people and making sure that there are successors lined up in case they move on or something happens to them.