TRAINING
Building Agility for the 21st Century Enterprise
STRATEGIC SUCCESSION PLANNING: BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE TALENT PIPELINE
📅 May 30, 2025
🕘 9am – 4pm PHT
🌐 Online via Zoom
🔗 Learning Investment: ₱3,500 per participant
OVERVIEW:
This comprehensive online course is designed to help you develop an effective succession planning strategy to ensure organizational continuity and leadership readiness.
You will learn how to identify, develop, and retain high-potential employees while aligning succession planning with business goals in the Philippine corporate and SME landscape.
Succession planning is a vital strategy for securing an organization’s long-term growth and stability. This in-depth course provides you with the expertise to pinpoint key roles, evaluate talent, and develop a pipeline of emerging leaders ready to transition into crucial positions smoothly.
Succession planning is critically important. Companies with strong succession strategies are more equipped to handle sudden leadership changes, reduce operational disruptions, and keep high-performing employees.
Succession planning will grow increasingly critical as organizations navigate rapid shifts in technology, workforce demographics, and global markets, This course equips you to tackle these challenges with confidence, empowering your organization not just to adapt but to excel in a fast-evolving and competitive environment.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the end of the training, you will:
Understand the importance of succession planning.
Identify key roles critical for organizational sustainability.
Assess and develop high-potential employees using best practices.
Learn to design a structured succession planning framework.
Know and overcome common challenges in implementing succession plans (talent retention, cultural fit, leadership gaps).
Learn how to leverage performance management and career development strategies to support succession.
Measure the effectiveness of succession planning initiatives.
COURSE OUTLINE:
Module 1: Succession planning
Definition, benefits, and relevance
Differences between replacement planning & succession planning
Legal and ethical considerations (Philippine Labor Code, Data Privacy Act)
Module 2: Identifying critical roles & talent gaps
Key positions that require succession planning
Workforce analytics and risk assessment
Module 3: Assessing and developing high-potential employees
Tools for identifying HiPos
Leadership development programs and mentoring
Retention strategies for top talent
Module 4: Designing a succession planning framework
Step-by-step process for implementation
The role of HR, managers, and executives in succession planning
Module 5: Overcoming challenges and measuring success
Common pitfalls in Philippine organizations
Key performance indicators for succession planning
Action planning and next steps
SESSION REVIEWS:
✔️ Worth registering my team to this webinar. The facilitator had a clear, engaging style and provided tools that could help us identify and develop future leaders within our team. -Greg L
✔️ The training was packed with actionable advice and examples and delivered so much value in a concise format. -Joven J.
✔️ As always, attending Velocity One’s learning session is productive. Tuning in for more workshops like this -Joy S.
✔️ After attending a public run of this, we had this customized as an in-house executive session and it proved to be highly valuable and beneficial. -Sherry D..
LEARNING FACILITATOR:
Leo Benitez
Leo Benitez is a seasoned business professional with over two decades of leadership in Human Resources, Corporate Communications, Sustainability, and Leadership Development. Leo has consistently championed customer-first strategies that elevate performance, engagement, and organizational success.
As Vice President of HR, Sustainability, and Communications for Luenthai International Group, a global apparel manufacturer, Leo drives strategic initiatives across multiple countries. His leadership spans employee experience and people care , ESG strategy, stakeholder engagement, and brand communications, helping position the company as both an industry leader and responsible global citizen.
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