Loading...Loading...Knowledge Group’s Succession Planning solution ensures your organization has the right leaders ready at the right time.
We help you identify critical roles, assess internal talent, and create individual development plans (IDPs) for high-potential employees to prepare them for future leadership positions.
Our proactive approach minimizes leadership gaps and secures your company’s long-term success by building a strong internal pipeline.
Increase the percentage of critical positions with at least one “ready now” successor to 80% (up from a baseline), ensuring leadership continuity
Reduce the average time required to fill key leadership roles by 50%, minimizing downtime and disruption when transitions occur.
Retain 90%+ of high-potential employees by providing clear career pathways and development opportunities, avoiding costly turnover of future leaders
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· The client had a siloed, risk-averse culture that hindered collaboration and innovation
· Employee surveys showed low trust in management and resistance to change.
· Turnover reached 22%, well above the 14% seen in organizations with healthy cultures.
· The leadership recognized the need to break down silos and create a more agile, unified culture to support growth
· KGC conducted a comprehensive Culture Scan, including an all-staff survey and focus groups across departments.
· We identified key gaps – such as poor cross-department communication and fear of taking initiative.
· KGC facilitated leadership workshops to redefine the company’s core values, emphasizing teamwork, innovation, and accountability.
· A cross-functional "Culture Taskforce" was established to champion initiatives like interdepartmental projects, idea-sharing forums, and a revamped recognition program celebrating collaborative behavior.
· KGC provided change management training and helped HR update policies to align with and reinforce the new culture.
improvement in employee trust in leadership (post-transformation survey).
Decreased from 22% to 12% over 18 months.
Employee-submitted suggestions doubled, fueling new product development.
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Knowledge Group works with your leadership to identify critical roles and define the competencies, skills, and experiences needed for success in each, as well as we review your organizational strategy to ensure succession criteria align with future business needs.
We assess your current talent against these success profiles, Knowledge Group uses a combination of performance data, manager nominations, and assessment tools (such as leadership style inventories, cognitive ability tests, and 360° feedback) to identify high-potential employees, this objective assessment pinpoints who is ready now, who could be ready with development, and any talent gaps.
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For each high-potential individual, Knowledge Group helps create a personalized Individual Development Plan (IDP), these plans typically include targeted training, coaching or mentoring assignments with senior leaders, stretch assignments or job rotations to build experience, and specific goals/milestones, and we ensure each IDP is actionable and aligned with the employee’s career aspirations as well as organizational needs
We assist management in implementing the development plans, and provides coaching and support during this period, we provide coaching high-potentials on new assignments, mentoring them through challenges, and tracking progress, and engaging the leaders as sponsors or mentors for succession candidates to provide guidance and organizational insight, Knowledge Group also helps adjust plans on the fly if circumstances change
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