Ewart Wooldridge and Rebecca Nestor will present a joint workshop on Succession planning grows up: integrating succession management and staff development for recruitment and retention in challenging times
Being fit for purpose in the challenging future of higher education will rest heavily on undertaking better succession management. Of course it is about ensuring that the best people are in the right roles; but more broadly, succession management can help our institutions to remain employers of choice and to retain and develop their talented people. This workshop will bring right up to date the work the Leadership Foundation started with UPA/UHR and the Staff Development Forum two-three years ago on succession planning. The workshop will present real case study examples of how succession management is being tackled within the sector, and show how it is being used in a range of ways, from small departmental initiatives to senior leadership development and large-scale business improvement projects. We will explore who is involved in succession management and how it links with other organisational initiatives, and we will look at how these cases relate to what research tells us about successful succession planning. Delegates will be encouraged to share their own experience of succession planning as well as hearing about the case studies.
Delegates will leave with clear case-study-based information on the succession management techniques which work in higher education, and improved knowledge of the contextual and other factors that make a difference. They will understand how succession management strategies can work with people and leadership development plans to the benefit of both.
Ewart Wooldridge CBE is the chief executive of the Leadership Foundation, and Rebecca Nestor is associate director of the Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford, and regional co-ordinator for the Leadership Foundation in the South-East and Eastern regions of England.
Last updated: 7 May 2010