SumTotal's Succession Planning solutions provides the ability to identify, assess, and develop talent at every level across the organization, and ensures continuity of leadership.

1. SumTotal Talent Platform®
Succession Planning
Manage Risk and Ensure Key Benefits
Business Continuity • Standardize, automate, and optimize suc-
cession planning processes and practices
SumTotal Succession Planning manages business risk and ensures leadership and
across the organization
critical role continuity across all levels of an organization.
• Provide senior management with global
Succession planning focuses on managing risk visibility into the talent pipeline and overall
67%
and ensuring continuity across all levels of the bench strength by leveraging dynamic tal-
organization – risk of untimely departures of ent pools and advanced analytics
critical personnel, risk of retirees taking their skills • Discover talent, including high performers,
and knowledge with them and leaving nothing deep within the organization to ensure
Percentage of
proper retention strategies are in place
companies that are behind, and risk of losing high value employees to
competitors. It does so by helping your business • Drive engagement by providing career
still primarily
paths for all employees – not just senior
paper-based in leaders to identify top performers within the
management, track employee develop-
Succession Planning organization, create dynamic “talent pools” of ment activities against talent pools
this critical talent that other leaders can leverage,
• Retain high performers, more easily hire
*Source: SumTotal, State of Global and prepare and develop these high performing from within, and infuse fresh ideas into the
People Management survey, 2010 employees for future roles. organization by promoting talent mobility
The SumTotal Approach • Prepare and plan well in advance of antici-
pated talent shortages (e.g., baby boomer
SumTotal Succession Planning helps to assess organizational readiness and
exodus from the workforce)
creates a dynamic talent pool of the most qualified individuals with the requisite skills
• Tag external job candidates (non-employ-
that are best suited for the organization’s strategic needs. The system enables an
ees) as internal successors to broaden the
organization to identify, assess, and develop talent to ensure continuity of leadership talent pipeline
for all key positions in the organization.
• Evaluate overall talent readiness and
As key positions become open, SumTotal Succession Planning identifies employees establish learning and training plans to
who are candidates for promotion and evaluates their potential for successful strengthen the bench
placement. The system also highlights areas where a potential candidate may need
reinforcement and project a timeline for readiness. Additionally, employees can
indicate career aspirations and measure the differences between their current skill
sets and what is needed for the future of the organization. SumTotal Succession
Planning identifies potential leaders in a new organization structure, as well as skills
that current leaders will need to polish or acquire.
SumTotal Succession Planning provides the following key capabilities:
• Talent Profiles: Capture and search for information about employee
competencies, skills, certifications, and experience.
• Talent Assessment: Assess employees on key areas of leadership
potential, job performance, and risk of leaving; Target employees
for future roles.
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2. • Drag & Drop 9-Box: Rate employees against potential and “The [SumTotal] platform allows us to
performance using an intuitive drag & drop interface. track and assess the talent pool and
promote people within the company.
• Dynamic Talents Pools: Group talent based on user-definable
Our latest metrics show that 75% of
criteria (e.g., competencies); Easily search for talent. key openings are fulfilled by internal
• Talent Explorer: Combines talent pool functionality with advanced candidates. The succession module
helps us to identify who the next
search capabilities to enable users to easily view and update their
senior managers could be and build
talent pools.
development plans to help them
• Talent Pool Calibration: Extends 9-box analysis to talent pools achieve their potential.”
and improves the overall usefulness and ease-of-use of talent Debbie Hancock
pool management. Vice President of Human Resources,
Seagate
• Bench Strength: Calculate and view bench strength.
Cross-Functional Benefits About SumTotal
SumTotal uniquely provides native integrations from Succession Planning to other core
SumTotal Systems, Inc. is the global leader
talent processes in order to support a holistic, end-to-end talent management strategy. in complete talent management software that
• 360 Feedback: Competency reviews by peers can be used as enables organizations to more effectively drive
inputs into succession gap analysis business strategy. Recognized by industry
analysts as the most comprehensive talent
• Career Development: As employees map out their career pro- management solution, SumTotal provides full
gressions, plans can be established that address competency, employee lifecycle management, including a
skill, and behavior gaps core system of record, from a single provider
for improved business intelligence. The
• Compensation Management: Financial plans can be tied to future
company offers customers of all sizes and in
succession plans so that the financial impact can be modeled all industries the most flexibility and choice
• Learning Management: Learning paths and courses can be with multiple purchase, configuration, and
established for desired future positions deployment options. With more than 1,800
customers and 25 million users worldwide, we
• Performance Management: Performance reviews can identify have increased the performance of the world’s
consistent high performers and top talent in the organization largest organizations.
• Recruiting & Hiring: Job profiles can be shared with Succession For more information, or to request a demo,
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